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...with as many as 200 one-night stands a year. Though his voice was dubbed the "Million-Dollar Monotone" by critics, the debonair showman remained a starring attraction until the '50s when, with the advent of rock 'n' roll, he abandoned the big bands for smaller nightclub combos catering to quieter audiences...
Like a lot of other performers, Sonny and Cher Bono are at loose ends because of the TV writers' strike in Hollywood. But the long-and-short-of-it pair are having a good time hopping from nightclub to concert. They scotch all rumors that their marriage is cracking up. "Who'd get custody of all our Indian and Italian jokes?" cracked Cher...
Died. Jack E. Leonard, 62, nightclub and TV comic who made the abrasive, one-line gag into an art form; of complications following heart surgery; in Manhattan. A onetime lifeguard, Leonard began competing in Charleston contests during the '20s, then graduated to the big-band circuit as a comedian. Portraying the angry, fast-talking fat man (his weight yo-yoed between 200 and 330 lbs.), he eventually became a frequent TV guest whose comedy format never varied-a skeleton routine augmented by ad-lib insults to audience and fellow performers alike. "I could be funny for hours on your...
...characters between brunch and bridge. Even while she gives tongue to their malice, Mrs. Luce clearly sees them as parasites who neither toil nor spin, except for their cunning webs of mischief. Like a social anthropologist, she follows these felines to their lairs-exercise parlors, hairdresser sessions, nightclub powder rooms. In an all-female play, these scenes cater to the U.S. male's assumption that women are as much a conspiracy as a sex, and Mrs. Luce reveals that the conspiracy is centered on him-how to get a man and how to hold...
Arabella House, near the West German city of Kaiserslautern, is a well-kept building with 72 single-room-and-bath apartments and such amenities as tennis courts, bowling alleys, beer cellar, nightclub, sauna, solarium-and a fully equipped room for sadomasochists. Arabella is what its operator, Kurt Kohls of Ulm, likes to call an "Eros center" and what almost everyone else would call a brothel. Kohls already runs four such centers in West Germany and Austria, and hopes to open other Arabellas in Luxembourg, Holland, Hungary, Yugoslavia and East Berlin...