Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, 89, legendary red-haired singer, entertainer and nightclub owner better known to generations of café society on two continents as Bricktop; in New York City. Born in West Virginia to a black father and a mother who was part Irish, part black, freckle-faced Bricktop began her career in Harlem, then moved to Paris. Cole Porter wrote Miss Otis Regrets for her. John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place...
...maker of such pastiches has been as acute as Coward, who entirely rewrote Let's Do It for his nightclub act: "Teenagers in jeans do it/ Probably we'll live to see machines do it." But that was merely Noël the singer. There was also Noël the playwright, Noël the actor, Noël the director, Noël the short-story writer, Noël the memoirist and, at the end, Sir Noël, knight of the British Empire. Yet of all his roles, Coward is likely to be remembered...
WHEN SWINGTIME SWEETIE Billy Crocker sings the praises of nightclub knockout Reno Sweeney, he lovingly croons "You're the National Gallery, you're Garbo's salary, you're Chippendale." Not to be outdone, Reno hails Billy as equal in stature to a silver dollar, an Arrow collar--even "cellophane...
...evocative colors: gold (for money), white (cocaine), red (blood) and black (death). As Tony vaults up the ladder of excess, his bad taste escalates as well. He trades in his yellow Caddy with the tiger-skin upholstery for a $43,000 gray Porsche. His favorite hangout, the Babylon nightclub, is a gaudy Erechtheum stocked with black Naugahyde banquettes, pink and blue ribbons of neon, black-marble toilet stalls, and mirrors, mirrors everywhere. The mansion of Tony's dreams boasts an Olympic-size bathtub; in the foyer, statues of the Three Graces support a huge gold globe bearing the legend...
...ghoulish climax, less than 48 hours after the assassination, Oswald was murdered right in the Dallas police station, by nightclub manager and police hanger-on Jack Ruby...