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Anticipating a torrent of corrections from local jazz buffs, I would like to apologize here and now for consistently misspelling the name of the vocalist with the Gary Berger band in my review yesterday. Her name is Liz FILLO, not "Filo." Mea cullpa...
Save for a fine arrangement of Summertime by the band's flutist and guitarist Carl Chase, and a wonderful long solo by Cooke on Blue Grass, the concert didn't really begin until the band's highly impressive vocalist, Liz Filo, swept on stage towards the end of the first set. But Mrs. Filo (who, in a black cocktail dress, improved my frame of mind before she even opened her mouth) picked up band and audience alike, and only set them down, flushed and cheering, after six stunning tunes. The band improved with her very first number, skillfully backing...
...Nurses (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Louis Gossett, as guest star, is a gunman hospitalized after having been shot in a holdup. Treating his wounds are the series regulars: Head Nurse Liz Thorpe (Shirl Conway) and Student Nurse Gail Lucas (Zina Bethune...
...ingredient in the mix that comes nearest to being Robbins' own is the gossip gimmick. He picks a public personage who has figured in lurid headlines, changes his name and a few unimportant details, and writes the novel around him-leaving him as difficult to identify as Liz Taylor in a false beard. In the case of The Carpetbaggers, although of course Robbins would deny it, the model for the main character was erratic Millionaire Howard Hughes. The book conforms to most of what is publicly known about Hughes, and the reader is clearly intended to assume that...
Sharing the bill in the Broadway debut of Liz's estranged husband. Crooner Eddie Fisher, 34. was Frankie's ex-fiancée, South African Dancer Juliet Prowse, 26, who displayed vast areas of skin and even more gall. She pranced onstage as a barely garbed Joan of Arc and slithered her way through a song that pictured the saint as a call girl; then she turned up in some Egyptian gauze and launched into Cleo, the Nympho of the Nile, ending with a belly dance that would have fazed Farouk. Snorted one of the critics giving...