Word: rooney
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Regular performers there range from two fine bluegrass bands--the Charles River Valley Boys and Jim Rooney's group which periodically includes banjo wizard Bill Keith--to white blues singers Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, Tom Rush and Mitch Greenhill, to balladeers like Baezish Dayle Stanley and the amusing, talented but occasionally dull Jackie Washington. Unfortunately, Eric VonSchmidt has temporarily withdrawn from the local coffe-house scene. An added attraction is the Club 47's house bass player Fritz Richmond who gets more music out of a washtup than most bass-men do out of a string bass. It is well...
...myself. Everybody took care of things for me. First my mother, then my husband. Oh, the early days at M-G-M were a lot of laughs. It was all right if you were young and frightened-and we stayed frightened. Look at us-Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Mickey Rooney and me-we all came out of there a little ticky and kooky...
Died. Pat Rooney II. 82. vaudeville's ageless song and dance man who bucked and winged from the gaslight era's Tony Pastor's to his last Broadway performance in Guys and Dolls; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Enchanted as a child by the hurdy-gurdies of Manhattan's Lower East Side, the leprechaun-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) hoofer endeared himself to three generations with his delivery of The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady, his tapping brogans keeping the beat for his gentle Irish brogue...
...Pointing a stubby finger at "bad counsel and bad judgment"-not to mention slow horses and fast divorces-compact Cinemactor Mickey Rooney, 41, hove into Los Angeles Federal Court under a luxury-model debt and filed for bankruptcy. Having earned some $12 million in a career that began when he portrayed a midget at the age of five, Rooney claimed assets of $500 in personal effects, debts of $464,914, including $116,512 in back taxes, $22,950 in back alimony to three of his four ex-wives. "From now on," pledged he, "I'm going to watch things...
Born. To Mickey Rooney, 41, Hollywood cinemidget who has played Puck in 82 films, and Barbara Ann Rooney, 25, his fifth wife: their third child, first son (Rooney has three sons by previous wives). Weight...