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...smoldering young sirens whose singing style tries to suggest that they are capable of unseemly passion, Joanie sounds throaty but relaxed, is admired both by rock 'n' rollers (for whom she steadfastly refuses to rock) as well as by those who pant for Ella and Frankie. Mort Sahl heard the records, took a look at gamin-faced Joanie, signed her up to accompany him on a 35-city concert tour. Suddenly everybody wants Joanie. She has just made a movie with Mickey Rooney (Columbia's Everything's Ducky), is eagerly sought for TV specials, has nightclub...
Last term the Highwaymen turned down an offer from Mort Sahl to go on tour with him, unwilling to interrupt their courses even temporarily. The group's folk singing, in Daniels' words, is just "a hobby in overdrive," but it does offer an advantage: "It puts academia in touch with reality...
Asocial Satirist Mort Sahl, a disciple of Birth-Control Advocate Sir Julian Huxley ("He's a swinger; every time I read him, I say, 'You're right, you're right' "), had a population problem of his own. Whacked with a paternity suit by Costume Designer Patricia Manley, who in July bore a son she named Adam Matthew Sahl, the 34-year-old comedian equably announced, "I'm not admitting or denying anything. Let the court decide." Responded Miss Manley, reminiscing about the European tour she says she made with Sahl last fall: "Then...
...SPECIALTIES: Chicago's much-touted Second City improvisational group-where Comedians Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May all began their careers-will bring a new revue to Broadway (Sept. 26). Comedian Mort Sahl is this season's man behind the Golden Theater's 9 o'clock curtain (Dec. 26); and French Actor-Singer Yves Montana" will do a one-man soiree full of songs...
...British have such a dead-keen sense of humor that they will burst into laughter on hearing that Prince Philip likes to call his wife "Sausage." Perhaps desperate for relief, penny-wise BBC-TV spent $10,000 last week to import Mort Sahl for a single telecast. Treating him on arrival as if he were an uncommitted king, BBC trotted out 30 London TV and drama critics to hear Sahl at a press conference, including the Observer's Kenneth Tynan, who, in a red sport jacket, sat cross-legged on the floor at the comedian's feet, like...