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...Poet Thomas ever published, Author Constantine FitzGibbon demonstrates with vivid detail that the reality sometimes outdid the legend. As a longtime friend of Dylan's, FitzGibbon is painfully aware of the flaws in his subject's character. Dylan, he says flatly, was a slob, a liar, a moocher, a thief, a two-fisted boozefighter, a puffy Priapus who regularly assaulted the wives of his best friends, an icy little hedonist who indifferently lived it up while his children went hungry. Yet at the same time, says Friend FitzGibbon, Dylan was generous, kind, charming and stupendously witty, a genius...
Kaye's best are still his standards, the git-gat-gittle song like Minnie the Moocher and Ludwig von Shtickfritz; no one but the D'Oyly Carte's Martyn Green has ever pattered half so perfectly. Though he laces his act with impossible puns and games ("That's the way De Gaulle bounces," or "Under the spreading psychiatry"), nothing diminishes the pure delight of his tour in a thousand dialects through the world's locker rooms, or his Begin the Beguine as sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune...
Weekends are no problem for the freeloader or deadhead as he is often termed. There are always parties on weekends, and the experienced moocher has more possibilities than he can take care of. During the week itself, however, an entire day will often go by without a drink caged from an unsuspecting host...
...remedy the mid-weeks hiatus, the sagacious free-loader spends much of his time on warm Spring afternoons just walking through House court-yards and the Yard. The sounds of a good party--tinkling glasses, sniggering girls, rearing male laughter--will float down to the moocher's ear and lead him to his filling-station. Entry is simple; a more request to use the telephone will suffice...
...strutted up and down the stage, the king of Hi-de-ho. Cab Calloway soon got over two thousand hands "booging it" in time and later yielded to demands for his "Minnie the Moocher" and a few minutes of "Hep talk...