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Tchaikovsky conducted there, 16-year-old Jascha Heifetz astonished its audiences, Arthur Rubinstein made his U.S. debut upon its stage. Yet classical concerts are only a part of Carnegie Hall's history. Audiences have been harangued by Winston Churchill, diverted by Lenny Bruce and serenaded by Frank Sinatra, who observed that "performing in Carnegie Hall is like playing in the Super Bowl." These and many more celebrities make dazzling reappearances in Richard Schickel and Michael Walsh's Carnegie Hall: The First 100 Years (Abrams; 263 pages; $49.50), a valentine by two TIME critics who are manifestly in love with...
Which gets me to thinking. Frank Sinatra celebrated his birthday earlier this week. He's 72. Ol' Blue Eyes. The Chairman of the Board. The man who saved Shecky Greene's life with two words: "Enough, boys...
...treasure-house of vital American music, no company is more valuable than CBS Records. Its labels, among them Columbia and Epic, have borne titles ranging from Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. to Michael Jackson's Thriller, from Frank Sinatra's Stormy Weather to Benny Goodman's Night and Day. But now this repository of Americana is passing into foreign stewardship. In the largest-ever Japanese purchase of a U.S. company, CBS agreed last week to sell its record business to Sony for $2 billion...
...typical Sunday-night amateur show at the Improvisation comedy club in Los Angeles. Five minutes onstage for a blond dwarf who joked about her "white evening gowns made by Fruit of the Loom." Another five minutes for a purported Indian mystic called Ramogosh, who closed his act with a Sinatra- style rendition of I Did It Buddha's Way. After a parade of two dozen such neophytes, the audience of 200 was ready for some professional comedy -- and ecstatic when, at a quarter to 11, Jay Leno bounded onto the stage...
...many measures of fame, one of the more useful is the injury-report index. A star makes the papers by dying. A superstar need only be hospitalized: when Sinatra's diverticula act up, you know about it. Higher up the celebrity scale are stars of a magnitude for which we have no adequate word and for whose well-being we can never have enough concern. Sitting monarchs and Presidents, for example. Two weeks ago Ronald Reagan incurred a "small, red bump" on his eyelid (caused by a contact lens). You could read about it on page 3 of the Washington...