Word: mocambo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there," he says. Son of a successful vaudevillian named Mickey Katz, Joel clicked with a cabaret routine while still in high school in California. In his teens he was a headliner at such high-priced playrooms as New York's Copacabana, Miami's Fontainebleau, Hollywood's Mocambo, and the London Palladium. "At that time," he recalls, "I would do almost anything to find a niche for myself. I had a bleeding ulcer at 20, and my life was falling apart...
...anybody over 30, and he will recall the twelve-block stretch between Beverly Hills and Hollywood as the playground of the stars, the place where the Gables and Grables, the Harlows and Hayworths came in their long black limousines and super-convertibles to gambol at Giro's, Mocambo and the Trocadero...
...friend of mine," explained McCloskey. "He told me, 'Matt, if you want me to do this thing, I'll get you all the talent you want.' " Frankie was as good as his word, thereupon unreeled a cast of characters that would stretch from Mocambo to Vegas. It includes Clansmen and Clans-women Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Curtis, Shirley Mac-Laine. The big show, said Sinatra, has the approval of "the gang in Washington, including Jack...