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Died. Ernie Kovacs, 42, mustachioed, cigar-frazzling master of madcap nihilistic humor; of a fractured skull and a ruptured aorta suffered when his car crashed into a utility pole; in West Los Angeles. Son of an immigrant Hungarian tavern keeper, Kovacs started off as an $18-a-week radio announcer in Trenton, N.J., scored his first TV success when he leered out at Philadelphia viewers while running a vacuum cleaner upside down over the studio ceiling, went on to win nationwide fame with three big-box-office movies (Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana...
Joanie's early career is like a clip from an old Judy Garland movie. She sang and sang-with the jukebox in the tavern where her mother worked, with the Venice (Calif.) High School dance band, with a harmony group for the Elks Club. Finally came the Big Audition-with Tommy Oliver's band at the Deauville country club in Santa Monica, and the Big Click. A demonstration disk played for Warner Bros. record company resulted in her first album, Positively the Most, a title artfully designed to rhyme with Drost. But Joanie had already decided the Drost...
...monolingual. MONITOR releases a great many recordings from the Slavic nations, most of which sound like the State Radio Orchestra and Chorus of Byelorussia backed up by the entire population of Byelorussia. The songs are uniformly translated to fit into the following matrix: "My love is in the tavern drinking (national beverage)/The flocks are on the hillside eating (national fodder)/Come away with me, my love for your eyes are like (national cliche)/Come and we will (international cliche...
...desperation, dial the number. A voice answers: "Hallo. Joe's Tavern." Ask if John Smith is in. The voice replies: "John who?" Say Smith. "You musta got da wrong numbah, buddy...
Crazy Joey Gallo's imminent trip up the river leaves unsettled two puzzling attacks on members of his mob: Who tried to garrote Larry Gallo in a Brooklyn tavern in August, and who shot a Gallo lieutenant, Joseph Magnasco, in October? If the Gallo gangsters know, they are not talking. As an explanation to the boys about why Crazy Joey had clammed up before the jury, the Brooklyn headquarters of the mob is festooned in locker room fashion with inspirational signs: "Don't talk-the life you save may be your...