So Many
Clints In The House
AS VEGAS singing sensation
Clint Holmes, honored by the New York
Friars Club, said, "My mom taught me how to sing and my dad
taught me how to enjoy it."
His singing career
started at age eight. His mother, a British opera star,
taught him vocal techniques and his father, a jazz musician,
taught him scat-singing in jazz clubs.
As Freddie
Roman introduced guests in the audience he spotted
me and said, "That’s Jules Peimer. He’s
taken hundreds of pictures of me and I’m yet to see one."
"Freddie, you never
looked," I replied.
Avery Sommers,
Billy Stritch, Cory Kahaney Kelly
Clinton and Leigh Zimmerman,
Christine Andreas, Lee Roy Reams,
Carol Woods, Karen Saunders
and Dick Capri had the audience
applauding all evening as they performed. The lineup was
arranged by producers Alison Chaplin,
Arnold Graham and Stewie Stone.
"I was in a
restaurant in Los Angeles," Capri said. "At the next table
were Clint Holmes, Clint Eastwood
and Clint Walker. At another table
were Brittany Spears, Lindsay Lohan
and Paris Hilton.
"My friend said,
‘Look there are three Clints.’
"I believe you’re
pronouncing it wrong, I said."
In the last few years
there have been many changes at the Club. Director
Jean-Pierre Trebot has retired but is still with
the club as Executive Director Emeritus. Michael
Gyure is the new Executive Director.
Dining in the club’s
restaurant has become a wonderful experience, thanks to the
new food and beverage director, Giuseppe Tarillo.
