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JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS (1,447). Without being present, Brel dominates this show. His music and personality are in the tradition of Piaf, Aznavour and Sinatra. His songs reach your ear, but his life reaches your heart. The quartet of performers invariably seem to be inspired by Brel, and some people have seen this show more than 30 times. A crystalline and incandescent evening...
...that made her overnight what for eleven years she has clumsily tried to be: a sex symbol. In the past six months, thanks to a sudden ripening of her stage personality, Ann-Margret has made herself a smash hit at the International in Las Vegas and has outdrawn Frank Sinatra at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau...
...Gabon's weddings." Highlight No. 1: Frank Sinatra, in excellent voice, making his farewell appearance-singing the songs he made famous and ending quietly with a "saloon song" called Angel Eyes. He barely whispered the last line, " 'Scuse me while I disappear," as the lights faded, and he did. Highlight No. 2: Princess Grace of Monaco, patroness of the evening, introduced by a nervous Gary Grant, her onetime leading man. Highlight No. 3: Pearl Bailey hamming it up in her Hello, Dolly! number with what may have been the highest priced male chorus line of all time: Sammy...
...most common bootleg victims are front-running artists: Bob Dylan, The Band, Jefferson Airplane-any star or group whose name alone is worth fat sales. The practice has long been a problem (Frank Sinatra records were bootlegged in the '40s), but technology has only recently made it attractive to young entrepreneurs. A variety of tape copiers, from $40 recorders to $100,000 stereo duplicating systems, can turn out cartridges, cassettes or reel-to-reel tapes, usually in less time than it takes to listen to them. Music-trade publications and underground newspapers carry ads for the machines, and many...
...return to the crime, if not the scene. Acting under an assumed mane, the red-wigged Matthau is a Narcissus whose self-love is contagious. But Muriel is immune until Jesse discovers the secret: big names. Dropping them like rose petals, he strews the path to the bedroom...Frank Sinatra...Paul Newman...Troy Donahue...Lee Marvin...