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...without the old man's money." After another effort, Mack the Knife, Gary remembers Bing again: "That's the most applause we've had since we told Dad we were leaving home." With a surprisingly pleasant, well-paced melange of songs, soft-shoe dances and slick patter, the Crosby boys manage to suggest that they intend to keep right on working until they have an act worthy of the Crosby name...
...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, songs, dances and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote...
...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, gongs, dances, and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote...
...sport-shirted Perry is rarely seen in the outfit's Park Avenue offices. His 33 full-time employees (soon to be expanded to 100) run his affairs, which include a TV-packaging subsidiary (Roncom TV Inc.) and music-publishing firm (Roncom Music Co.). Perry's amiable patter is written for him by TV's highly esteemed ($11,500 per show) Goodman Ace, who has three writers working with...
...angry descendant of slaves, the chained workman, the devout penitent, the impish lover, Belafonte always returns to being the small boy, performing a shuffling dance between verses, a sort of dark-skinned Huck Finn. At least once during each show he slouches comfortably about the floor directing irrelevant patter at waiters, musicians and ringside patrons ("Don't pay, comrades! Let's make a rush for the door!"). He often finishes by kidding his audience into joining him in a few choruses of Matilda: "Big Spenders be still! Now the intellectuals! EVERYBODY...