The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 113

I 5 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SUNDAY. MARCH 20. 1983 Eddie Fisher sings again in Neiv York Jules Feiffer to speak at benefit for KCLU Were Here," "Lady of Spain." "Count Your Blessings." "I Need You Now" and "Dungaree Doll." His prolonged absence from New York is explained in his autobiography. "Eddie: My Life. My Loves" (Berkley.

This memoir takes the singer up from an Impoverished Philadelphia boyhood to success, then into compulsive gambling and acute drug dependency. He became addicted to methamphetamine, administered by a doctor who catered to the rich and famous. He portrays himself and those around him as willing victims of their own celebrity. The show folk In his book live out an attenuated ado present from his daughter. Carrie Fisher, mho is appearing on Broadway In "Agnes of Cod." Fisher was 21 when he became the protege of Eddie Cantor, who heard him sing at Grossinger's, the Catskllls resort A year later.

In 1950, Fisher had the first of 32 hit records, with "Thinking of You," and until the arrival of Elvis Presley, was the nation's No. 1 singing idol. The advent of rock and a highly publicized personal life that took precedence over his career combined to unseat. His top-10 hits Included "Any Time." "In Yours." "Wish You lescence, in which popularity is the thing that matters most By bis account the press bullied him into bis first marriage with actress Debbie Reynolds, a woman he didn't know very well. Next wed to Elizabeth Taylor, he says he bad to be a nursemaid as well as a husband.

His marriage to the actress Connie Stevens was also reluctant Miss Stevens was pregnant Fisher says, and he decided to do "the proper thing. "The Eddie Fisher In the '80s Is a little more mature than he I have four wonderful children. I am truly In love with the thing that I do. I've always been and still am a singer of love songs, a ballad singer." NEW YORK "It a challenge to be playing New York after all this time." said Eddie Fisher. 54.

He recently opened his first New York singing engagement in 16 years at the Club Indigo. 41 East 58th Street "I dont think I've been happier or more nervous in my life," he said from the stage. His baritone is still sizable, but his timbre has darkened and coarsened; now he sings with a wide, somewhat wobbly vibrato. In his Manhattan apartment is an electric sign that reads. In bright purple letters.

"Oh My Pa-Pa." the tine of one of his biRgest hits. It was a Cartoonist Jules Feiffer will speak at a public meeting at 3 p.m. next Sunday at Noe Middle School. 121 W. Lee St.

It is a benefit for the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union, which suggests a contribution of $5 at the door. Reservations are not required. Feiffer, who also is a playwright, will be the guest of honor at a $50-a-person cocktail supper at 6:30 p.m. next Sunday at the home of Tim Peters and Sallie Bingham, 1300 Willow Ave. Reservations are required.

A limited edition of 100 seri-graph prints, designed by Dave Caudill of PRIDE! Inc. from the art of Feiffer. will be sold by KCLU for $100 each or $75 with two cocktail-supper tickets. Feiffer. whose cartoons appear in The Louisville Times, will number and sign the prints.

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