LOS ANGELES (AP) - Julie London, the smoky-voiced ``Cry Me A River'' nightclub
singer who played TV nurse Dixie McCall on the old ``Emergency!'' series, died
Wednesday. She was 74.
London had been in poor health since suffering a stroke five years ago. She was
taken by ambulance from her San Fernando Valley home to a nearby hospital,
where she died Wednesday morning, her business manager Meyer Sack said.
London was born Julie Peck in Santa Rosa, and moved to Los Angeles at 14 with
her vaudeville song-and-dance team parents. She had roles in movies including
``Jungle Woman'' (1944), ``The Red House'' (1947) with Edward G. Robinson,
``Task Force'' (1949) with Gary Cooper, ``The Fat Man'' (1950) with Rock Hudson
and ``A Question of Adultery'' (1958).
London was married to ``Dragnet'' star Jack Webb for five years. Her second
husband, Bobby Troup, was the composer, jazz musician and actor who penned the
classic song ``Route 66.''
Troup booked London for a nightclub engagement that was followed by her hit
``Cry Me A River'' in 1955 and eventually 32 albums.
In 1955, '56 and '57, she was voted one of Billboard's top female vocalists.
Among her songs: ``Around Mignight,'' ``In the Middle of A Kiss,'' ``In the Wee
Small Hours of the Morning'' and ``My Heart Belongs to Daddy.''
When nightclubs began losing their appeal and closing in the 1960s, London
moved to television.
She appeared on an episode of ``Big Valley,'' then got the role of the head
nurse at fictional Rampart General Hospital on ``Emergency!'' Her husband,
Troup, played neurosurgeon Dr. Joe Early on the 1970s TV drama. He died of
heart failure last year at 80.
Webb was the show's executive producer, which ran from 1972 to 1977. Cable TV
reruns have brought ``Emergency!'' renewed popularity.
London is survived by a daughter from her marriage to Webb and three children
from her 39-year marriage to Troup.
AP-NY-10-18-00 1754EDT
She died on Bobby Troup's birthday which is today October 18. She said many
times before Bobby died that she couldn't live without the love of her life
who was Bobby.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Popular Swedish comedian and actress Inga Gill, who
was known for her funny and down-to-earth appearances on radio, theater, film
and TV, died Wednesday. She was 75.
Gill, whose career spanned more than 50 years, had been battling an unspecified
illness, the Swedish news agency TT reported.
She broke into movies when she appeared in director Alf Sjoeberg's tragic
``Miss Julie'' in 1951, and later played the blacksmith's wife, Lisa, in Ingmar
Bergman's 1957 film ``The Seventh Seal.'' She returned to the great director 15
years later as the storyteller in the drama ``Cries and Whispers'' (1972).
Her husband, actor Karl-Arne Holmsten, died in 1995. Gill is survived by her
daughter, My Holmsten, and grandchildren.
Details on funeral arrangements were not immediately known.
AP-NY-10-18-00 1351EDT
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P.J. Clarke's owner Daniel Lavezzo Jr. dies at 83
NEW YORK (AP) -- Daniel Lavezzo Jr., who owned a saloon where celebrities
such as Nat 'King' Cole, Frank Sinatra and Buddy Holly were regulars, died Oct.
10. He was 83.
P.J. Clarke's in Manhattan has a rich history that spans more than a half
century. It was the setting for the Ray Milland movie "The Lost Weekend.''
The writer of the novel on which the movie was based, Charles Jackson,
frequented Clarke's for years after the 1945 filming.
Rocker Buddy Holly proposed marriage at Clarke's, Aristotle Onassis took
Lee Radziwill there before he married Jacqueline Kennedy, crooner Nat 'King'
Cole named the juicy bacon cheeseburger "the Cadillac of burgers,'' and
Sinatra had Table No. 23 reserved for him. Louis Armstrong often dropped by
with his trumpets early in the morning.
One evening in the late 1950s, mobster Frank Costello, Senator Hubert H.
Humphrey and Marilyn Monroe entered and sat at separate tables waiting for
company.
Lavezzo, who wore a madras sport jacket to greet patrons and left the office
affairs to his brother, resisted repeated offers to sell the Clarke's site to
developers who were erecting skyscrapers around it. Instead, he negotiated
a 99-year lease with the developers, Tishman Realty and Construction Co.
Lavezzo owned the bar for more than 50 years.
AP-NY / 10-15-00 05:20 EDT
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:13:18 +0200
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica "racism"
My 0,0166 euro on this interesting and inevitable debate. Racism,
imperialism, sexism... I'm sure one can find all of these elements in
many examples of exotic western culture. I just remember this episode of
Hawaiian Eye, where those American heros burn down the temple of the
Hawaiian "primitives", just because those natives don't want to give
them their sacred land. In most cases though I think exotica only
reflects the naivity and primitivity of white westerners themselves -
naivity and primitivity in a bad as well as in a good sense. I guess if
real Africans saw a Tarzan movie at that time they either laughed about
it, or in the worst case, maybe felt misunderstood. But being
misunderstood alone isn't a damage to an ethnic culture. Well, it can
become one, if it opens the way to misunderstand and mistreat that
country on a political level. But I'd rather blame economics and
politics for that than art.
The funny thing is, that I'm a foreigner to Americans myself. I remember
this film with Bing Crosby, he's wearing Lederhosen and is coming to
this little village in Bavaria (well... the film actually mixed up
Bavaria and Austria), where people are doing this Lederhosen slap dance,
and it is so funny! It was the funniest presentation of this notorious
dance I've ever seen. So this American look on a culture of my own
country certainly gave me a point. The film made me see Bavarian culture
as something funny as well as somethig interesting at the same time. I
mean, this Lederhosen folk culture was so alien even to most Bavarians
at that time already. I can't see a damage done to a foreign culture by
a presentation of that kind. It's a point of view. It's everybody's good
right to express in a piece of art the view s/he has of another country
or culture. It can be done seriously, it can be done funny, and of
course it can become subject of a debate and even be rejected. But it
can be done. If Americans think they know the world by knowing such
films though, well... good luck! ;-)
If you want to talk about damage, then the other way round, the overall
dominance of Rock music all over the world surely did some damage to the
music cultures of a lot of countries. But as we all know for a long
time, it was absolutely inevitable and if anyone to blame, then not
rock, but those world cultures that weren't strong enough to withstand,
or didn't have enough substance and background for the now-time to
create their own now-sound.
Mo
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:14:49 +0200
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Book of Tiki / Exotica Connection
Kevin Crossman wrote:
> I think we could have answered that a bit less harshly...
Sorry, didn't mean to...
> It didn't help that the captions were in three languages... if the book
> tanks in France or Germany can we omit one (or both) of those from the
> next volume? It would leave more room for chapters on Exotica music... ;-)
True. That tri-lingual concept was another burden for the author. Captions in 3 languages, text in one... that surely is not very elegant. I can just assure you that a project like that always causes you to make a lot of compromises to get it done. I just know how hard Sven was fighting for his concepts all the time. I still think though, that
it isn't neccessary to know by any means who did the photo and under what circumstances to understand the history of the tiki style.
Mo
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:57:27 +0100
From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk
Subject: (exotica) Edmundo Ross on UK TV
Did anyone else see this last weekend? Groovy Guy Roy tipped me off about
it. I sold my Cadillac to Diana Dors. Could have been titled the
adventures of a mixed race man in post war high class Britain. Or it should
have been. Apart from a couple of references it managed to skirt round the
issues quite well. An affair with a Diplomats wife. Marrying a
Scandinavian aristocrat. The social divisions and snobbery apparent at his
nightclub, and his personal life. It could have been an interesting
illumination of class and race in a deeply divided country. But i suppose
that wasn't the point.
As is usual with these programmes, a little live footage was stretched a
long, long way. It had some clips of Ross' band playing Japanese military
marches (apparantly they were Big In Japan, as they say) which sounds
intriguing, and also Ross in the studio in the 90's doing some new
recordings of old stuff, as well as a little old Technicolor film from his
nightclub in the west end of London.
And I've been thinking some more about his singing, if you put it in the
context of Ragga MC's or Rappers on some modern dance tunes, it sounds very
contemporary. Check out his version of La Bamba, fatten up the beats a
little and its a modern record. I played it out last week, and no-one
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 10:32:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: delicado@cheerful.com
Subject: (exotica) goodbye julie
Julie London is dead. I always meant to write to her. Listening to a few tracks now in her honour. Some great recordings; 'don't smoke in bed', 'round midnight', 'goodbye'.
> Julie London is dead. I always meant to write to her. Listening
> to a few tracks now in her honour. Some great recordings; 'don't
> smoke in bed', 'round midnight', 'goodbye'.
>
> goodbye Julie..........
>
> love
> melodramatic Jonny
I always felt the same way. Jonny. A special lady. And you felt that way even more after you would read about her. Nice wife and mother who was in the entertainment industry but but never let it consume her.
Hi everyone,
I'll be doing a Julie London tribute on my show tomorrow. If you know of anyone north-west of Boston who is a Julie London fan pass the word.
I would be interested in a having a co-host for the show who would like to pay tribute to her on the air. I would love for them to come on.
I've been doing a mental inventory of what I've got. 6 complete albums and 3 various comps on LP and CD, so I've got plenty of material. But hey, having a fellow fan would be fun. And could always use more.
Thanks for the space,
Domenic Ciccone
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:23:22 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) My First Julie London Memory
>> Julie London is dead.
I'll never forget seeing her for the first time. I was about 10, unaware of
her existence. The year was 1958. I was watching TV. A commercial came on.
There was this gorgeous Breck-type lady in a smoky supper-club setting.
Cigarette smoke swirled around her. The camera shot was close up. The cash
registers and ice cubes clanked. She softly crooned, "You get a lot to like
with a Marlboro. Filter, flavor, flip-top box..." It was unlike anything I'd
ever seen...JB
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 09:11:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <chuckmk@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) My First Julie London Memory
I always wondered why Marlboro became the number one selling
cigarette in the USA!
Around 1962 I was in awe of the lovely Miss Eddie Adams who told me
about Muriel Cigars, "Why don't you pick one up and smoke it
sometime" Maybe she was the cause of the cigar fad of the 1980s.
Always loved Doris Day singing "See the USA in Your Chevrolet" Was
that Hefti's arrangements?
And whoever sang in the mid 60s "Come Alive, Come Alive, you're in
the Pepsi generation, has the most fantastic voice!
The sexiest girl in ads for me as a kid was the Noxema(sp) Girl who
around 1966 said: "Take it off, take it all off, nothing takes it
off like Noxema"
Seriously, Julie London was very special and I am sorry to hear of
her death. I would love to have seen her sing at a little L A club
in the early 50s, that must have been incredible! A small intimate
club and Julie London!
Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
- --- DJJimmyBee@aol.com wrote:
> I'll never forget seeing her for the first time. I was about 10,
> unaware of her existence. The year was 1958. I was watching TV.
A commercial came on. There was this gorgeous Breck-type lady in a
smoky supper-club> setting. Cigarette smoke swirled around her.
The camera shot was close up. The cash registers and ice cubes
clanked. She softly crooned, "You get a lot to like with a
Marlboro. Filter, flavor, flip-top box..." It was unlike anything
