by Harold Niesen One thing has tied my entire life together: listening to Miss Peggy Lee sing. Mom supplied her 45s to me before I could read. Now the forever young at heart Miss Lee continues her not-to-be-missed engagement at the Venetian Room through April 30. She combines pop and[…]
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Ladies and Gentlemen, Miss Peggy Lee
by Neal Karlen Miss Peggy Lee glumly stares out of the smoked rear window of her limousine as it crawls through midtown at rush hour. She’s caught, she says, a nasty dose of the Second Night Blues. “You never heard of those blues?” the 68-year-old chanteuse asks, her voice one[…]
On the Town with Rex Reed
by Rex Reed New York after dark is being blasted out of its lull. Peggy Lee is at the Ballroom, Rosemary Clooney is at the elegant new Rainbow and Stars, Margaret Whiting is back at the Algonquin, Jim Bailey is doing his Judy Garland witchcraft at Michael’s Pub and the[…]
Like a Statue Rising Above the Ruins
by Patrick Pacheco Peggy Lee’s hotel bedroom looks a little like a hospital: There are two humidifiers going full blast, boxes of bandages and a wheelchair in a corner. You expect to find her in the living room, as she put it in song, “just holding on.” Instead, she looks[…]
Profile in Courage
by Bob Harrington Wherever Peggy Lee appears, she’s promoted as one of the living legends of show business. But Lee, who opens tonight at the Ballroom, doesn’t take such accolades very seriously. How does it feel to be a legend? “I wonder if all that legend stuff didn’t begin with[…]
Peggy Lee Is Suing Disney
by Glenn Collins The singer Peggy Lee filed suit in Los Angeles yesterday against the Walt Disney Company, charging breach of contract in the release of a videocassette version of the 1955 movie Lady and the Tramp without her consent. Miss Lee, who is suing Disney for $25 million in[…]