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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lennon's public killed him and continues hiding his identity even from his parents. To unmask Goddard, Andre enlists the unlikely help of Patrick Domostroy, a once prominent classical composer perfectly content at being reduced to playing the piano at a "pinball joint that tries to pass for a nightclub." Like most of Kosinski's heros, Domostroy lives on the fringes of normal morality and society. In an abandoned ballroom in the South Bronx, he spends his time feeding his rather unusual sexual appetite, playing the piano for gas money and drawing royalties...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: Tilting | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

...There's nothing more inconvenient than an old queen with a head cold," Toddy sniffles as he contemplates being down and out in Paris, 1934. He has just lost his job in a gay nightclub, his lover has left him, and his new roommate, Victoria (Julie Andrews), is a singer with a voice that can shatter glass but not the indifference of booking agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gays to the Fore, Cautiously | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown in her honor at a Mayfair nightclub, the pair toasted each other with champagne and by evening's end were dancing cheek to cheek. Taylor and Senator John Warner, 55, separated in December, and Burton and his wife Susan parted last year. But the seven-time-married Taylor and the four-time-married Burton scotched notions that another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 15, 1982 | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

Take the group of veteran nightclub comics and entertainers who turned out at the Hillcrest Country Club for Comedian Danny Thomas' 70th birthday. Please. Making room for Danny in the picture (he is front row center, with a cigar and red pocket handkerchief) are: (top row) Milton Berle, 73, Don Rickles, 55, Steve Landesberg (partially hidden), 36, Bob Newhart, 52, Morey Amsterdam, 67, Bob Hope, 78, Art Linkletter, 69, Jack Carter, 58, Joey Bishop, 63, Phyllis Diller, 64, Carl Reiner, 59, Sid Caesar, 59;(front row) Jan Murray, 64, George Burns, 85, Danny, Red Buttons, 62, Steve Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Record: Jan. 25, 1982 | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...SEVEN YEARS into his graduate studies, Lehrer decided to give show business a full-time try. He started at the Blue Angel nightclub in New York and played clubs and talk shows from coast to coast for a few years. He cut four albums, which eventually sold a total of 1.5 million copies. In 1960, at the height of his fame, he stopped performing regularly to continue his quest for the elusive Ph.D...

Author: By --jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Tom Lehrer | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

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