All high-class VIPs employ serfs, vassals, types who crash around, get the seats, start the applause, aggravate the agents, find the outfits.
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who → employ → outfits
Zoos would term them animal trainers.
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Zoos → term → them
They’re lessers who make the greaters survive.
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greaters → ’re → ?
Even a little talent needs a big manager.
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talent → need → manager
Husbands she dumps, managers she keeps
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she → dump → managers
I can now tell stories only of those who are gone.
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who → tell → those
Now, often, it’s large management companies.
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it → ’ → ?
Take performing artists who came through New York.
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who → take → York
Manager type Milton Blackstone found gangly kid Eddie.
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Blackstone → find → Eddie
He taught Eddie how to dress, how to act.
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He → teach → Eddie
He spoke for Eddie, thought for him, maintained publicity for him during his GI days.
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He → speak → days
Pushed the kid’s recordings, so that week after week Eddie had hit after hit.
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Eddie → push → hit
Then — kaboom! — little Eddie met biggie Elizabeth Taylor Hilton Wilding Todd who next trudged on to Burton and Burton, Warner and Fortensky.
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who → meet → Burton
Seems little Eddie had other parts of his body that also made music.
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that → seem → music
He quickly dumped guru Blackstone.
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He → dump → Blackstone
His career then dumped him.
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career → dump → him
Not grateful Eddie next quick SOS’d Milton Blackstone.
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Blackstone → SOS’d → ?
Once on top again — he severed relations again.
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he → sever → relations
This resulted in an apology deal whereby Eddie had to pay Milton $25,000 yearly for at least 10 years.
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Eddie → result → years
They’d handle potential headliners’ needs and hone their beginning talent.
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They → handle → talent
Plump, gray-haired, 50ish mass of fast-talking dynamite who found a nobody piano player in a Midwest saloon and created her into the queen of supper clubs — Hildegarde.
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who → talk → clubs
No. 1 star and their money went to Anna Sosenko, the queen of the night.
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star → go → night
Anna: “Many have talent — so what?
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Many → have → talent
Someone has to nourish it, keep it going.”
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Someone → have → it
Hildegarde’s hands weren’t attractive so Anna conceived the idea of her client appearing in gloves.
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client → conceive → gloves
Anna taught her to walk off without waiting for applause so as to leave the audience wondering and waiting.
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Anna → teach → audience
“I created the masterpiece,” she said.
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she → create → masterpiece
Singer Hildegarde left us in 2005.
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Hildegarde → leave → 2005
Sosenko lived with her for a quarter of a century.
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Sosenko → live → century
If Hildegarde’s thumbnail polish got scratched, Anna went to the manicurist.
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Anna → scratch → manicurist
Ted Collins created Kate Smith.
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Collins → create → Smith
All then had their own Svengali.
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All → have → Svengali
Elvis had Colonel Parker.
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Elvis → have → Parker
If Elvis had a cold, Colonel Parker sneezed.
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Parker → have → cold
Lou Perry, an ex performer with 40 years experience behind him, started the nightclub comedians Buddy Hackett, Alan King, Dean Martin.
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Perry → start → comedians
He lost all three.
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He → lose → three
Sighed Perry once: “I had Dean’s nose fixed, staked him coffee money and then to stardom.
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nose → sigh → stardom
His wife was sick and he needed work desperately.
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he → need → work
An Atlantic City club owner — my friend — called him.
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owner → call → him
Dean cried real tears.
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Dean → cry → tears
…and 9 more, not listed.
The Aporia
