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...also promises never to try to act or move to L.A., where he grew up. In fact, he's got a post-9/11 red-white-and-blue tattoo that says nyc on his forearm below a cross and a Corvette logo, a tribute to his car-salesman dad. Though he's a practicing Roman Catholic, he is not, as rumor has it, a born-again Christian, as evidenced by his cursing, drinking and being friends with Jimmy Kimmel...
...poured out of his head and through his clumsy fingers. He could play in only one key, banging out his numbers on a special piano (he called it "the Buick") that, with the push of a pedal, could transpose keys. Even on his own machine, Berlin was a lousy salesman of his music; his ragged vocal and instrumental technique could undermine his best work. In 1934, Fred Astaire and the "Top Hat" production team gathered to hear the numbers Berlin had written for the movie. "And then he would sing the song," Hermes Pan, Astaire's choreographer, told Bergreen...
DIED. WILLIAM JOVANOVICH, 81, maverick businessman who became chairman of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1954, seven years after joining the publishing house as a college-textbook salesman; of heart failure; in San Diego. During his 36-year tenure, Jovanovich also published his own writings, including a 1990 novel, The World's Last Night...
...Harrison, just 12, is a miserable student putting in an hour's commute on his dad's bus, traveling from the family home in Speke to the Liverpool Institute. He is engaged in conversation by a boy a year ahead of him in school, the son of a cotton salesman from Allerton. Paul McCartney is just as crazy about guitars and American rockabilly stars as is Harrison, and soon he is joining young George in the evenings to practice their distinctive versions of Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O and Besame Mucho...
...Harrison, just 12, is a miserable student putting in an hour's commute on his dad's bus, traveling from the family home in Speke to the Liverpool Institute. He is engaged in conversation by a boy a year ahead of him in school, the son of a cotton salesman from Allerton. Paul McCartney is just as crazy about guitars and American rockabilly stars as is Harrison, and soon he is joining young George in the evenings to practice their distinctive versions of Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O and Besame Mucho...