CANOGA PARK WOMAN IS A TIMELESS BEAUTY.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
Odds and ends from around the Valley: What's the adage? A gentleman never asks and a lady never tells? So don't bother asking, Pearl Stubblefield says, because she ain't tellin'. All you have to know is she won the state title in the 50-and-over division of the Elegant Ladies beauty contest held at the Disneyland Hotel Disneyland Hotel may refer to:
How much over 50 is her business, Pearl laughs. Let's just say she's trying out for the Palm Springs Follies, a revue revue, a stage presentation that originated in the early 19th cent. as a light, satirical commentary on current events. It was rapidly developed, particularly in England and the United States, into an amorphous musical entertainment, retaining a small amount of show, and that's for women over 60. It's the third time Pearl's won the state beauty title, and, well, a few of the other girls were a little jealous at all the applause she was getting walking across the stage Sunday, the Canoga Park grandmother says. ``This one girl in the restroom, she was in the 30-year-old division I think, said I must have had all of Canoga Park there, the way people were clapping for me,'' Pearl said Thursday. ``She was just jealous. I only had one daughter in the audience. People were clapping because of the way I looked: elegant.'' Pearl says she keeps entering beauty contests because they help keep her young. That and her great Hungarian genes, she says. ``I weigh 110 pounds, never diet, don't exercise, and haven't had any plastic surgery,'' Pearl says proudly, adding another trophy to the more than 15 she has on the mantel already. Like I said, a gentleman never asks, and a lady never tells. Speaking of gentlemen, I actually know one or two, and one of them is a guy named Ken Marone. He did something on a Monday night recently over at Monteleone's restaurant in Tarzana that took real chutzpah chutz·pah also hutz·pah n. Utter nerve; effrontery: "has the chutzpah to claim a lock on God and morality" New York Times. . Marone took his singing out of the shower and put it up on a stage. He put on a tux, grabbed a microphone, and, behind a big karaoke karaoke (Japanese; “empty orchestra”) Use of a device that plays instrumental accompaniments to songs with the vocal tracks removed, permitting the user to sing the lead. machine, crooned a dozen songs to a packed house that erupted in wild applause after every one of them. It didn't hurt that the room was filled with Marone's pals, who would have applauded him tying his shoes. The idea came to Marone one night a couple of months ago while having a hot toddy and listening to some jazz at Monteleone's. He called owner Tom Monteleone Thomas "Tom" Monteleone (Hamilton, Ontario- March 1979 Hartford, Connecticut was a Canadian born mobster who was a shadowy suspect involved the 1978 Lufthansa heist. Tom is of no relation to the science fiction author of the same name. over and told him it was his dream to sing on that small stage some night. Monteleone said guarantee 50 drinking customers, and I'll make your dream come true. They settled on a Monday night because the restaurant is closed on Monday nights. Monteleone's no fool. He wasn't taking any chances of losing his regular customers if Marone bombed. The two men shook on it, and a week later Marone comes down with a case of the nerves, worried no one's going to show up on a Monday night to hear bad Sinatra, Dean Martin and Bobby Darin Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert "Bobby" Cassotto, May 14 1936 – December 20, 1973) was one of the most popular American big band performers and rock and roll teen idols of the late 1950s. . He didn't have to worry, because his timing was impeccable. Monday Night Football “MNF” redirects here. For other uses, see MNF (disambiguation). Monday Night Football (MNF) is a live television broadcast of the National Football League. was still a month away, and there was nothing to do on Monday night but watch the Dodgers lose another one, so more than 100 people showed up to see if Marone could pull it off. He did. With a lot of help from his accompanying acts, pals Perry Atkin and Anna Marie Macaluso, who helped Marone open the show with a rousing rous·ing adj. 1. Inducing enthusiasm or excitement; stirring: a rousing sermon. 2. Lively; vigorous: a rousing march tune. 3. ``There's No Business Like Show Business.'' From what I could see, everybody had a great time, but the guy who seemed to be enjoying it the most was standing alone in the back, smiling. Tom Monteleone, counting the house. The start of the one-mile unification march this Sunday has been pushed back from noon to 2 p.m. to allow people attending religious services that morning enough time to get over to Temple Em Habanim in West Hills to join in the march. ``We had an awful lot of requests from congregations to start later so they could be involved also,'' said Jacques Hay of Temple Em Habanim, which is co-sponsoring the event with the Valley Interfaith in·ter·faith adj. Of, relating to, or involving persons of different religious faiths: an interfaith marriage; an interfaith forum. Council and the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), organization composed mainly of American blacks, but with many white members, whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation. . Hay said from 1,500 to 2,000 people are expected to walk the mile from the temple at 7533 Fallbrook Ave. to the West Valley Jewish Community Center, where there will be a rally in the park across the street. ``We've got people from just about every religion and nationality coming,'' Hay said. ``It's going to be a real United Nations against hate and violence.'' Good. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Pearl Stubblefield of Canoga Park, who has won the state title in the 50-and-over division of the Elegant Ladies beauty contest three times, poses with her trophies. Tina Gerson/Staff Photographer |
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