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Xenon, chic and slightly battered, is Cornelia's latter-day West Side joint. One of her six best friends, Howard Stein, 40, runs the place. The other five best pals: her mother, brother, one of her two agents-Cornelia hopes to model and endorse cosmetics-a movie producer, and Stein's wife, Tawn, 32. This afternoon Stein is explaining how to sing "these soulful songs with percussive interludes." Tonight is to be Cornelia's second public performance as a rock-'n'-roll singer. Last fall she stood up and sang a tune...
Several are foreigners, and Stein, who brought them together, provides some background: Julio Santo Domingo is a Colombian "whose father runs Avianca Airlines," Giora Rachminov is an Israeli "who does diamonds," and Mimmo Ferretti is the son of a Milanese clothing manufacturer. Ferretti is a last-minute replacement for Baron Roger de Cabrol, who is sick. "We wanted to call the band Euro-trash," Stein says, "but, instead, they're called the Greencards." He is grinning: a green card is the Government document issued to resident aliens...
...show begins shortly after midnight and lasts half an hour. Cornelia's syrupy voice might, with training, resemble Teresa Brewer's. The band sounds terrific. That is, the four professional mu sicians (two guitarists, drummer and pianist) Stein hired to play in the shadows downstage sound terrific. Two of Cornelia's friends strum soundless guitars at center stage, faking the struts and grimaces of rock stars. Cornelia seems like a bashful cheerleader, smirky and proud and a little unsure. The last of the eight songs is Satisfaction, which Cornelia's friend Mick Jagger recorded with...
That work is attracting a new and concentrated attention. The last time a constellation of equal prominence appeared was in the Great Depression era, when talents as varied as Pulitzer-Prizewinning Novelist Edna Ferber, Poet Marianne Moore and Experimentalist Gertrude Stein were among the decade's most prominent literary celebrities. But they worked in an era less obsessed by the politics of gender. Today, says Simon & Schuster Editor in Chief Michael Korda, "women writers are being noticed more because more attention is being paid to women as a group...
Along the way, he seems to have met everyone. He knew Stravinsky, he knew Picasso. He knew Joseph Conrad and Gertrude Stein. He knew fine wine, he knew fine art. Most of all, it seems, he knew women; his two-volume autobiography is almost as much a recounting of amorous conquests as musical triumphs. "It is said of me," he once told an interviewer, "that when I was young I divided my time impartially among wine, women and song. I deny this categorically. Ninety percent of my interests were women...