B7 - Wednesday, November 9, 1983 - North Shore News

HE entertainment

THERE AREN’T many
middle-aged men who
can call themselves
‘Frankie’ and still get
away with it, but part of
Frankie Avalon’s charm
is that he’s been able to
keep his fans (the ma-
jority of the audience is
middle-aged women)
while poking fun at
both his and their
anachronism.

Avalon is an interesting
mix of show-biz glitz and
common sense. He’s been
able to do what few in the
business can by keeping an
active entertainment career
going as well as a very active
family life (he has eight kids).

He is fit and tanned, runs
four miles three or four times
a week and plays golf. ‘‘It’s a
job’’ he says practically, cali-
ing his fitness his
‘maintenance’ program.

Whatever the secret, it
works. Avalon’s show is full
of fun and bounce. He
believes a live performer is
paid to entertain, not just
stand up and sing, so his
show is filled with silly jokes,
simple tap without the taps,
the soapy songs that made
him famous, and even some
trumpet playing.

Limiting his travelling
show to about three months a
year gives Avalon more time
to work on other projects. ‘‘!
don’t rely on nostalgia,’’ he

says, “‘It’s just there,’’ and’

yet he does nothing to quell
the nostalgia craze that’s
stood him in such good stead.
Upcoming movie projects in-
clude a new ‘beach’ movie
with Annette Funicello and
another film to be called The
Rock Garden, which will be a
re-creation of a 90 day bus
tnp of the old days with
Frankic, James Darren, Bud-
dy Holly, and a cast of
thousands of young pop
music hopefuls

“lt can be an important
film because it shows a side
of show business pcopic
don't know too much
about,”” like the insecunmty of
trying to make wt and the
black-white resentments and
prejudice.

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715,930

FRANKIE AVALON at tke
Plaza until November 12.

While in North Vancouver
Avalon plans to work on
material for his next travell-
ing show. It’s not an easy
task because he spends about
five years putting together a
show, and even then ‘‘it’s
never finished,’’ because he
works so hard to keep the
show entertaining.

“*No one ever walks out of
my show going ‘My God,
what a voice!’ and I don’t ex-
pect that, I think a performer
should perform.’’

‘it’s a tough racket to stay
at the top,’ he says, adding
that there are few who can do
it. Johnny Mathis is one,
Sinatra another.

‘‘Sinatra - he was the man
- any pop singer is trying to
do him,”’ and Avalon ts no
excepuon. ‘‘You have a
model, and then you find
your own thing.”’

Avalon ts sad to see the end
of the romantic singer in the
nightclubs ‘‘We're talking
about a business that’s passe,
it’s gone °' Frankie Avalon ts
one of the few crooning
dinosaurs still around

His entertaimng nightclub
show at the Plazazz continues
until Saturday For tickets or
information call 984-0611

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