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...Darin was modest. That brashness, in fact, was part of his whole charming, overreaching package, which is welcomely represented on two Atlantic CDs called The Best of Bobby Darin (Splish Splash and Mack the Knife). Mack, of course, became Darin's signature song, making him equally at home in supper clubs and on American Bandstand. He went to Hollywood, made movies, played Vegas and laid down some exceptional, swinging sides, but after Mack, consistent success was as elusive as a single, solid performing style. He died, far from a superstar, in 1973. The new CDs prove that his pop singing...
...MAXWELL KILLED HIMSELF! One version holds that Maxwell took his life knowing the financial dam was about to burst. The Daily Express in London reports that Maxwell seemed agitated and depressed during his "last supper." A variation is that he was suffering from a fatal disease, supported in one tabloid by Spanish doctors...
ABBEY LINCOLN: YOU GOTTA PAY THE BAND (Verve). Abbey Lincoln has done it all -- supper-club singing, song writing, movie acting (The Girl Can't Help It, For Love of Ivy). Now on the comeback trail as a jazz diva, she combines the emotions of Billie Holiday with a personal delivery rooted in her own poetic lyrics. Never has her talent been better displayed than on these 10 songs, five of them from her own pen, featuring outstanding backup work by the late tenor-sax great Stan Getz...
...Room 306, where he conferred with his lieutenants moments before he was shot on the adjoining balcony. "There was some discussion of populating Room 306 with figures," Eisterhold recalls but acknowledges that this seemed close to blasphemy. Nevertheless, he defends the decision to re- % create King's last supper (catfish) with a room-service tray and dirty dishes, as well as to leave a copy of the April 4, 1968, Memphis Press- Scimitar open on the bed. "It seemed," Eisterhold argues, "that we had to indicate some evidence of habitation...
...former Jesuit seminary, St. Andrew's-on-the-Hudson. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the great theologian, is buried there. Stained- glass windows depicting scenes from the life of Christ adorn a student dining hall that was once the seminary's chapel. It also contains a fresco of the Last Supper, boarded up for safekeeping...