by Rex Reed New York after dark is being blasted out of its lull. Peggy Lee is at the Ballroom, Rosemary Clooney is at the elegant new Rainbow and Stars, Margaret Whiting is back at the Algonquin, Jim Bailey is doing his Judy Garland witchcraft at Michael’s Pub and the[…]
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Like a Statue Rising Above the Ruins
by Patrick Pacheco Peggy Lee’s hotel bedroom looks a little like a hospital: There are two humidifiers going full blast, boxes of bandages and a wheelchair in a corner. You expect to find her in the living room, as she put it in song, “just holding on.” Instead, she looks[…]
Profile in Courage
by Bob Harrington Wherever Peggy Lee appears, she’s promoted as one of the living legends of show business. But Lee, who opens tonight at the Ballroom, doesn’t take such accolades very seriously. How does it feel to be a legend? “I wonder if all that legend stuff didn’t begin with[…]
Peggy Lee Is Suing Disney
by Glenn Collins The singer Peggy Lee filed suit in Los Angeles yesterday against the Walt Disney Company, charging breach of contract in the release of a videocassette version of the 1955 movie Lady and the Tramp without her consent. Miss Lee, who is suing Disney for $25 million in[…]
Good Echoes of Bygone Sounds
by Frances Dickerson and Caz Gorham A spring afternoon in Bel Air… a time and a place as evocative as an English summer. Driving up into the hills of north Los Angeles, you glimpse (through the rainbows of the sprinklers that are everywhere), a world of ideal homes. Here great[…]
Thirty Years of Fever
by Gino Falzarano One song and one singer redefined the meaning of the word “cool” that summer of 1958. The singer was Peggy Lee. The song: “Fever.” At the height of the rock and roll era, Peggy pulled back, stripped away the non-essentials, and created a classic that epitomized the[…]