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Prices of other precious metals such as platinum and palladium have also soared, as have those of diamonds, pearls, stamps, art and antiques. In the past month silver has risen 65%, while gold has gone up 23%, partly because its relatively low price per ounce attracts speculators. The popularity of such tangible assets reflects a fast-deepening distrust of all paper currencies in a period of scary inflation. For some extreme pessimists, the phenomenon has raised the specter of the Weimar era in Germany in the early 1920s, when wheelbarrow loads of notes were needed to buy a loaf...
...when the entire audience is conveyed by bus to a snack with the star. But it is in Tony Clifton, with his crass, abusive desperation, that Kaufman may have found his strongest comic voice. A distant cousin to Lenny Bruce's abrasive small-timer bombing at the London Palladium, Tony is the dark side of every comic. He is also, to Andy Kaufman, very real. Tony Clifton has a separate agent, gets separate billing, demands-and receives-separate dressing-room facilities when he works with Andy. The producers of Taxi wrote Clifton into the show, had to negotiate...
Crosby collapsed after carding an 85 on the suburban La Moraleja Golf Club on the outskirts of Madrid. Only the day before, he had arrived in Spain from England after a successful tour climaxed by a sellout performance at London's Palladium. The tour, he told reporters in Madrid, had been a reassuring test of his recovery from the back injury he got last March when he fell from the stage in Pasadena, Calif., during a celebration of his 50th year in show business...
...final London performances in 1969, Judy Garland faltered so badly that some members of the audience pelted her with bread rolls. Last week, when Singer Lorna Luft, 23, Judy's daughter and Actress Liza Minnelli's half sister, came to play the London Palladium, it was the critics who did the bombarding. The London Times found her "a not particularly talented performer who tries hard enough but against impossible odds." What she lacks, said the Guardian, "is that bruised-by-life quality you find in most top female vocalists" -a failing that the British critics seemed anxious...
Sheathed in a shimmering blue jumpsuit topped by a towering headdress of ostrich feathers, Josephine Baker, grande dame of the music-hall circuit, pranced across the stage of the London Palladium last week with grace belying her 68 years. Between torch ballads, the St. Louis expatriate paused long enough to reminisce about the good old times in Paris. "I started in 1924, and we were all beginners together-Pablo, Matisse, Hemingway," she recalled to her audience. "I used to look after them all, too, picking up their clothes, getting them organized. And I was always popular because I was earning...