Word: nightclubs
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...easy to look up to the man who is going to make you a star when you're 5 ft. 8 in. and he is 5 ft. 3 in. So Singer-Dancer Ann Jillian, 29, opening a nightclub act last week at Manhattan's Reno Sweeney, looked down-sweetly-on Mickey Rooney, who had got her booking. Since he first spotted Jillian two years ago, Rooney has also wangled her a part as a showgirl in his Broadway hit Sugar Babies and a role in the upcoming movie, Panic on the Potomac, in which they will both play...
...experience of 20 years and the enthusiasm of the first day." One must witness, as I did many times during my visit, joyous occasions when audiences broke into spontaneous cheers and the singing of revolutionary songs. On July 25, the eve of the anniversary of the revolution, a boisterous nightclub hushed to a reverential silence as a popular singer began the national anthem. The audience displayed only rapt attention and, a moment later, spirited participation. To them, this obviously was not an empty ritual...
...china, waiters and waitresses wear the same austere black and white uniforms--the government maintains diverse economic establishments that cater to different Cuban clienteles. There is the local bar in the town of Trinidad in which the only barstool is a concrete stoop. And then there is the Tropicana nightclub, still perhaps the most lavish in the world, where dancers in glitter and feathers parade across an outdoor stage set amid a grove of palm trees...
...much as $3,000 a week, he claimed. Mostly, McMullen said, he just strolled into gun shops, cash in hand, and bought whatever weapons he wanted, but on occasion the approaches got a bit dicey. Said he: "One night I'm standing at the door of this busy nightclub, and up comes a guy with this great bloody carpet over his shoulder. He says he's got something to show me. So I tell him to get the hell out of the doorway and meet me in the basement. He unrolls the carpet and there's four...
...noted for his devotion to an organization known as the Union of Moral Order. It is supposed to rescue traditional standards from their assault by wayward modernism. The boy's father (Ugo Tognazzi) is a homosexual. But not just any ordinary homosexual. He is the owner of the nightclub whose name-it means "Birds of a Feather"-gives the film its title. The club features drag queens, notably Zaza (Michel Serrault), Dad's lover of 20 years. Zaza is so into his role that now, having reached a certain age, he is giving a first-rate impersonation...