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FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1991

The MCF's Guest Of Honor
Will Cause A Loss Of Voice

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he has photographed
some of the world's
top glamour guys .. .
been with many at parties .. .
interviewing and socializing.
But when the invitation
came to attend this year's
Michigan Cancer Foundation
annual black tie dinner-dance,
May 4 at the Westin Hotel,
celebrity photographer Linda
Solomon just about flipped out
and her heart started poun-
ding . . . She couldn't believe
her eyes.
The headliner is "the love of
my life!" exclaims Linda, as
she speaks so reverently about
Burt Bacharach and un-
ashamedly blurts out, "I just
love that man!"
Her ongoing "love affair"
with Burt Bacharach has been
a long-time thing . . . with
hubby Barry knowing about it
for 20 years . . . (they've been
married 15) . . . What does
Barry think of him? . . . "If he
likes fast-food hamburger
sliders, he's my kind of guy,
too."
While Linda was attending
University of Michigan, she
had a large Burt Bacharach
color photo amid oodles of
other pictures of him in her
room . . . When she came
home on weekends, a six-foot-
tall life-size cardboard cutout
of her man who makes moun-
tains move was always there
in her Detroit bedroom.
One night, while Linda was
at the university, her parents,
Mona and the late Dan Rap-
paport, thought their home
was robbed . . . The police
came and began searching the
house . . . One of them saw a
cutout of Burt Bacharach,
drew his pistol and was ready
to "blow his head off" until
realizing that Linda's love
wasn't the real thing . . . Years
later, she told him about the
incident and he had a good
laugh.
Another time, Joey Neder-
lander arranged to have her
backstage at Pine Knob to
meet Burt Bacharach . . . He
came out of his shower dressed
in a white robe . . . the man of
her dreams . . . with "gorgeous
navy blue eyes" . . . Linda
could only gape with awe .. .
and suddenly lost her voice.
In 1970, Linda bought the
best seat in the house at Los
Angeles' Greek Theatre,
where Burt Bacharach was
appearing . . . just so she could
be close to him . . . But it
didn't turn out as wonderful

an evening as Linda had
hoped . . . not with his wife at
the time, Angie Dickinson, in
the seat next to her.
Linda has been quite in de-
mand of late . . . Her annual
Academy Awards photos are
always nationwide hits . . .
This year, Linda's 1991 pics
will be on display at Bloom-
ingdale's Palm Beach for one
week starting April 24 .. .
then four more weeks, begin-
ning May 14, at Bloom-
ingdale's Manhattan in New
York.
She was recently hired as
national spokeswoman for the
camera industry (Photography
Information Council).
This Wednesday, Linda will
be the special celebrity com-
mentator for Harmony ORT's
eighth annual fashion show
commemorating American
heroines, at Temple Beth El,
on Telegraph in Birmingham
. . . 6:30 p.m. boutiques, 7:30
show.
"He's ageless," says Linda
about Burt Bacharach . . . "I
just love that man!" . . . At a
party in California for Barbra

Her ongoing "love
affair" with Burt
Bacharach has
been a long-time
thing . . . with
hubby Barry
knowing about it
for 20 years.

Streisand, Linda saw him and
lost her voice again.
A lot of people's eyes will be
focused on her when Burt
Bacharach comes out at the
Michigan Cancer Foundation
Dinner-Dance that is expected
to hit an attendance of 1,500
this year.

Will she be the professional
Linda Solomon or a giddy gal
drooling with a blank stare of
adoration . . . and maybe los-
ing her voice again? . . . Just
in case, hubby Barry better
bring some smelling salts
with him.
The professional in Linda
will no doubt win out . . . if not
immediately . . . soon . . . and
she'll work with three dif-
ferent cameras for every possi-
ble angle, amply loaded with
about 20 rolls of film . . . After
all, this is Burt Bacharach .. .
her crush of crushes.
By the way, she likes his
music too.
CONGRATS . . . To Elsie
and Art Goldman . . . on their
48th anniversary.
THE MUSIC goes round

and round as DeLuca's
celebrates its 18th birthday at
the same locale on Woodward
and 11 1/2 Mile in Royal Oak.
Leonard Randall has been
at the piano and singing the
entire 18 years . . . He's there
Tuesdays through Saturdays
. .. Buddy Clark on keyboard
Sundays has been at DeLuca's
17 years . . . Mel Thompson
strumming the ivories on
Mondays is the "youngster" of
the entertainers . . . only six
years' . . . That's when Lenny,
who had come over after a
lengthy stay at Saksey's on
Woodward and Seven Mile, cut
out working on Mondays.
In 1958, Dennis and wife
Gina DeLuca had a little place
on Hamilton and Avalon, a
block north of Glendale, that
seated only 45 . . . They "got
up in the world" with 90
seating at their spot on Wood-
ward and Six Mile from 1966
to 1971 . . . Today, just the
main dining room itself at
DeLuca's seats 150.
A lounge, with more booths
and tables, is where the seven-
days-a-week entertainment
has been so well received.
When they bought the pro-
perty and built the present
DeLuca's, going strong across
Woodward were Club Berkley
and Northwood Inn . . . Theirs
is the only one left.
The lounge rocks with'
rhythm . . . especially on Mon-
day nights when sit-ins pull
instruments out of their cases
and join Mel in some good-
listening jam sessions.
Bob Allison (also known as
"Hoosier Slim," a heck of a
good pool player), whose radio
show, "Ask Your Neighbor" is
now 29 years old, is a piano-
playing regular every Monday
night . . . Mel gets on the
drums and a bass guitar gent
begins jamming it with guest
Bob.
Then Mel takes over as th e
piano bar fills up and Monday
"The Mike Is Yours" night
takes sway.
More musicians start corn-
ing to sit in . . . sax, trombone,
flute, electric guitar, etc. , ,
the trombonist, an "old timer"
jazz stylist, sings his
"Georgia," " It Had To Be
You," "Stardust" and "Sunny
Side Of The Street" with vocal
inflections and mike poise you
can see are from the
yesteryears school of some
mean, low-down blues sessions
. . . He's quite the entertainer,
singing to the rifling rhythms
and playing his trombone to
hand-clapping time.
DeLuca's was always known
as a good neighborhood

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