Swoon River: Crooner Andy Williams Reminisces In New Memoir
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Crooner Andy Williams Reminisces In New Memoir
THIS ONE'S FOR THE OLDS: SINGER ANDY WILLIAMS IS HAWKING A GOSSIPY NEW BOOK in which he dishes sex, drugs and music.
"Sure I waited a long time to do it,'' Williams, 81, tells the Telegraph. "But who wants to buy an autobiography of someone in their teens? You've got to live life to write a book about it."
The sop pop singer -- who thinks Obama's a Marxist -- is giving interviews to sell his bio, Moon River and Me.
And after 60 years in show buziness, Williams, who used to swill champagne with the Rat Pack, knows how to satisfy a crowd. Among the secrets he's spilling:
He once ate a heaping plateful of dog food when he was hungry;
That his pop was a stage dad who propelled him to work harder by telling him other singers were better;
That Robert Kennedy was probably buried wearing his tie;
That Frank Sinatra ordered a drunken Las Vegas casino patron's nose broken;
And that a married and drunk Mia Farrow tongued his ear at a party. ("Fooling around with Frank (Sinatra's) wife in the middle of a crowded dance floor wasn't the best move," he confides.)
Though most famous for ballads such as Moon River and Can't Help Falling In Love, and the smaltzy variety program The Andy Williams Show, Williams still operates the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri and occasionally tours.
"People assume I'm dead,'' he tells one interviewer. Not yet, but you'll hear about it when he does: He plans to die on stage.
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