Word: nightclubbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, Maya Angelou enjoys the unique experience of meeting Billie Holiday and even singing for Lady Day. Billie invites herself to Angelou's nightclub act and in the middle of the set begins to scream. "Stop that bitch. Stop her, goddamit. Stop that bitch. She sounds just like my goddam Mamma." When Angelou confronts Billie for interrupting her song, she is told that all Black women sing alike--a mold Billie tried to break. But there is no exploration of why the connection between Black women, particularly mothers, would incite such rage in Billie Holiday. Once the anguish is presented...
Hughes. With that same cheery, golden bantam innocence, Dummar has now launched a Nevada nightclub act. Booked into a two-week stand at the Sahara in Reno, he has included two bittersweet Dummar compositions in his act, The Ail-American Dreamer and Thank You Howard...
...Ford got a chance to saddle up with Rod Steiger as a U.S. deputy marshal in a western movie called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Now Ford, 25, has signed on full time for a CBS daytime soap, The Young and the Restless. This time he plays a nightclub bartender who woos a stripper, played by comely Melody Thomas. Says Ford: "Melody and I did some pretty steamy love scenes last week. I told Mom I might not give her the air dates for those particular scenes." Not to worry. Former First Lady Betty Ford remains unruffled; last year...
...reverie centered on a college professor who, when not off on foreign adventures, could be found in a nightclub with a slinky, '30s-style blond on each arm. With a little help from Writer-Director Philip Kaufman, who worked on the story for two weeks, the blonds and the nightclub disappeared. Lucas' archaeologist hero (along with anthropology, it was the producer's favorite college course) finds himself recruited by the American Government, circa 1936, to foil, singlehanded, a huge German team that is on the brink of rediscovering the long-lost Ark of the Covenant, in which...
...senior vice president of Houston's Allied Bank of Texas (1980 assets: $1.3 billion) presided soberly and quietly over the bank's 15-man international division. But by night, the portly and bearded Wiggins moved onto a faster track, barhopping along Houston's nightclub circuit, where he showed affection to his favorite topless dancers with $100 tips...