Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shipyard that endeared Brooklyn to the U.S. Navy for 160 years is being closed. Already gone is the yard's Sands Street honky-tonk strip-where all real sailors prayed to go to when they died. Says Mrs. Martha Dimmler, Big Martha to Navymen of three wars who packed the Red Mill Bar: "It used to be that no place in the world had wilder, drunker, more wonderful sailors than...
Inside Daisy Clover. Like a benevolent and protective barracuda, Hollywood Producer Christopher Plummer eyes the grubby 15-year-old Daisy he has plucked from a honky-tonk beach town, and tells her: "I'm going to make something out of you-money." He soon transforms Daisy (Natalie Wood) into America's Little Valentine, a musical-comedy wonderkin to someone like the young Judy Garland...
...last of the Red-Hot Mamas"; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Buxom, brassy and schmalzy, she toured the whole of show biz, breaking into vaudeville at 20, shimmying her way into Cole Porter's 1938 Broadway hit Leave It to Me and Hollywood's Honky Tonk, but mostly working the cabaret circuit, where for 50 years she made them hum along with Blue Skies, grow misty-eyed with Some of These Days, and roar over her gravelly Nobody Loves a Fat Girl, But Oh How a Fat Girl Can Love! "Red-Hot Mamas never grow old, they just...
...predicted, has fallen off 30% from last year. Though some exhibitors took heart when 13,469 more people showed up this Fourth of July weekend than last, the fact remains that 78,059 more people showed up the same weekend at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, a honky-tonk carnival that has been around for 68 years...
Bergman and the cast sing two other marvelous tunes: one ("Let Us All Thank Satan for His Brew") is a highly sucessful imitation of a Negro spiritual. The other ("Crushing the Grape") hits with very clever lyrics and a snappy honky-tonk melody. Of the rest, only "My Fellows I Am Minded" is definitely second-rate...