Word: waldorfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sprawls-giggling and gangly-in a Waldorf-Astoria suite, looking as out of place as a cheerleader at a debutante ball. Her shaggy haircut springs out from her head. Her nails are bitten to the quick, her black boot heels are run over. She sprays words and sounds. She is having a frantic kind of fun, like a kid rolling down a hill, dizzy and excited at the same time. But who cares? Certainly not Liza Minnelli...
Start with the Harvard Garden Grill which is right on the Square. Perhaps its proximity to the redoubtable and elegant Waldorf Cafeteria, where each entering customer is mechanically served with a numbered cardboard canape, has thrown it in a dimmer light than it deserves. The Grill, which is no Charley's Kitchen and won't always serve minors, has four things which make it, and all respectable American bars, substantial. It has a television above the bar. It has a lot of those cardboard placards above the mirror above the bar to which are stapled things like Bromo, Cheez...
...none of the oppressive overproduction that is now the vogue in cabaret acts-the choreography down to the last twitch, the scripting of every gasp, the obtrusive gags. Any quips are her own and perhaps a little limp, but honest. During her recent stint at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, she delivered herself of some extemporaneous antiwar sentiments, then added: "Mr. Agnew, I'm sorry." What really distinguishes Petula's performances is that voice-now throaty, now driving, and seemingly twice too powerful for a delicate five-footer...
Halston's tie-dyed young and not so young include Actress Ali MacGraw, Best-Dresser Babe Paley, Vogue Editor Robin Butler and Model Naomi Sims. Film Star Liza Minnelli has commissioned Halston to dress her in tie-dye for her Waldorf opening next month...