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...only still lives plain, but Al Coury. 43, talks as tough ("Don't call me back. Just do it") and speaks as straight ("If someone brought me Kiss today on a silver platter, I still wouldn't sign them") as he did 21 years ago, when he started hustling records around New England for Capitol. At RSO, Coury is given his head ("Robert's always on a boat somewhere. He says the L.A. smog affects his breathing"). Coury plunges into all areas of the biz. He engineers marketing strategy, designs ad campaigns, even pitches in on planning those mammoth Sunset...
Aside from the roasts and baked pies, nearly every dish was what my grandmother used to call hassenpfeffer--a mess, tossed together from mangled remnants of carcasses hidden underneath a spicy sauce that would ideally completely obscure the bastard origins (or incipient rot) of the ingredients heaped on the platter. The feast, rather than the ordinary run of the mill pigout, required hundreds of these "made" dishes, for which most valued praise the cook could receive was if the satisfied diner could not tell what had gone into the original concoction. At a feast given by Henry VIII...
...words of a '60s platter, life meant "just a-surfin' all day and swingin' " all night. The superswingers, of course, were Warbler Frankie Avalon and matured Mouseketeer Annette Funicello, who boogied by the surf in a string of beach party movies. On Nov. 25 a Dick Clark special on NBC will be co-hosted by Funicello, now 36 and the mother of three, and Avalon, 38, father of eight. "The chemistry between us is just dynamic," giggles Funicello. Frankie agrees, and for good reason. Says he appreciatively: "Annette thinks I am the funniest guy in the world...
Harvard had served Princeton two touchdowns on a silver platter in the first quarter at Palmer Stadium before roaring back and dominating the second half...
...nomination on a platter if he wanted it, he'd said no. And all he'd done since was listen. Yet now he was a candidate in uniform, looking for the honorable thing...