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...next. She likes to stay up until all hours of the night in this or that nightspot, especially Xenon, a voguish discotheque off Times Square. If she seems jumpy this afternoon, it is because tonight she is going to Xenon not to dance or just mingle but to sing, in front of hundreds of paying customers...
...best friends, Howard Stein, 40, runs the place. The other five best pals: her mother, brother, one of her two agents-Cornelia hopes to model and endorse cosmetics-a movie producer, and Stein's wife, Tawn, 32. This afternoon Stein is explaining how to sing "these soulful songs with percussive interludes." Tonight is to be Cornelia's second public performance as a rock-'n'-roll singer. Last fall she stood up and sang a tune or two at a Xenon party ("People begged me not to go on"), but this will be a full-fledged...
...also during the 1930s that debutantes began making larky plunges into show business. Between her debut and her marriage in 1947, Cornelia's mother was briefly a Ziegfeld Girl and a Hollywood starlet with a studio contract. In New York City, cafe society was paying to hear debs sing at the Waldorf-Astoria and Plaza hotels, as well as at a West Side nightclub called La Place Pigalle...
...sway in gentle syncopation as they mouth the words to their new hit record. They have the rough, "found" beauty of stenos or inner-city cheerleaders, and they run through their number with artless urgency, as if they realize that this is their one fluky shot at stardom. They sing of the idealized male, who needs both adoration and protection: the angel baby, the rebel, the leader of the pack, the playboy, the soldier boy, the fine fine boy, the boy I'm gonna marry-he's sure the boy I love...
More people know more lines from Casablanca, possibly, than from any other movie. They recite the best ones. They splash around in the sentimentality. They sing along in the way that Churchill used to rumble the lines of Hamlet from his seat in the audience at the Old Vic. They stooge around: imagine Howard Cosell in the part of Rick Blaine and recite the lines in Cosellian cadence: "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine...