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...some meaty news-about any celebrity he could buttonhole in his non stop table-hopping. Was Joe DiMaggio flying to New York "for some dates at El Morocco"? Lyons heard it there and so reported. What did Artur Rubinstein's wife cook for dinner the night before? The pianist gave Lyons the answer (Polish chicken) at the Côte Basque. Was it true that Jacqueline Susann met that other author, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., at Sardi's? Lyons was there as a witness...
...Manhattan-born son of a Viennese accordionist, Hamlisch as a boy was nicknamed "Fingers" because he avoided sports to guard his hands. He went to work at 19 as a rehearsal pianist for Broadway shows, beginning with Funny Girl in 1964. He squeezed in night school too, graduating cum laude from Queens College. In 1968, at a Broadway party, the pianist met Producer Sam Spiegel, who chatted about a film he was planning to make from John Cheever's short story The Swimmer. Three days later Hamlisch handed him the completed theme for the movie...
Sacred Cow. The doctors were wrong, of course. But Burgess still works with the passionate speed of a condemned man. Right now he has three new novels in the works: an espionage thriller in a "super-James Bond vein," a biographical fiction based on his pianist father's musical career, and a novel devoted to Pope John XXIII, about whom Burgess, a strict English Catholic, is highly critical. Soon to be published is the third and concluding volume of the Enderby novels, the story of a poet who loses and then regains his creative gift, generally regarded...
...Kuumbas brings a lot of different people from very different backgrounds together," says Kathy Gatson, '76 student director, pianist, and songwriter. "This is the first time singing certain kinds of black music for some of us but we all come together and become...
Since an established country-music career is about as durable as a concert pianist's, Tanya should be around a long time. She does not have a typically sweet, country soprano. In fact, her flinty alto carries a disconcerting and quite false suggestion of whisky, smoke and sex. Already, Would You Lay With Me and Satin Sheets are in her repertory, and anyone listening to them on records might well picture a roadhouse chanteuse instead of an open-faced, honey-haired teen...