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Eddie Fisher:
His Life And Loves

RITA CHARLESTON

Special to The Jewish News

H

e was a shy little boy
who grew up in pover-
ty and dreamed of one
day becoming a cantor.
Instead, Eddie Fisher
became a teen-age singing
idol, racking up an im-
pressive list of hit records,
beginning with "Thinking of
You," and continuing through
such memorable tunes as
"Oh, My Papa" and "You've
Gotta Have Heart."
But during those golden
years, Mr. Fisher made the
headlines as much for his
marriages as he did for his
musical abilities. Three times
wed and three times divorced,
he also made news over such
personal problems as bouts
with drug and alcohol addic-
tion — problems he talked
about in his 1981
autobiography, Eddie: My

Life, My Loves.
"But I wrote that book still
under the influence," Mr.
Fisher reveals during a
telephone conversation from
his home in San Francisco. "I
know there's a lot of truth in
the book, but I think I also
tried to be cagey and shy
away from some of it. I didn't
pull out all the stops. I was
straightforward but not all
the time."
Now 62 and out of the
public eye in recent years, Mr.
Fisher is on the comeback
trail. It is a trail, he hopes,
that will take him back to a
career that once burned
bright but, all too soon, burn-
ed out.
Shortly after winning a con-
test sponsored by a local radio
station in his hometown of
Philadelphia, Mr. Fisher be-
came a regular on one of its
shows. But with stars in his
eyes, the youngster soon
headed to New York to make
his mark. Once in the Big Ap-
ple, he met Milton Black-
stone, the man who made the
name Grossinger's synony-
mous with celebrities and the
man who was to play a major
role in Mr. Fisher's life. Mr.
Blackstone got him a job at
the resort hotel in the Cat-
skills that became, Mr. Fisher
says, his second home.
During the next three
years, Mr. Fisher played at
the popular resort, became
the production singer at the
world-famous Copacabana in
New York, and won first place
on Arthur Godfrey's "Talent
Scouts" program. With Mr.
Blackstone's urging, Mr.

Eddie Fisher:
On Comeback Trail.

Fisher then returned to
Grossinger's, a move that
would prove a turning point
in his career, for at Mr. Black-
stone's insistence, Eddie Can-
tor went to the Catskill resort
to hear Mr. Fisher sing. To
this day, Mr. Fisher credits
Eddie Cantor as the man who
discovered him.
With that discovery came
an RCA recording contract
and, after Private Fisher was
released from two years with

The resort hotel in
the Catskills
became his
second home.

the United States Army, his
own show on NBC. Eventual-
ly, Hollywood beckoned, and
Mr. Fisher was introduced to
Debbie Reynolds, the woman
who became his first wife.
After two children (Carrie
and Todd), a scandalous
divorce and charges of "aban-
donment," Mr. Fisher took
bride number two, Elizabeth
Taylor, only to be deserted
himself when Liz began a
notorious affair with Richard
Burton. Connie Stevens
became wife number three, a
union that resulted in two
more children: Tricia and
Joeley.
Besides multiple mar-
riages, throw in extravagant
spending sprees, gambling
and drug addiction, the ad-
vent of rock 'n roll, and Mr.
Fisher says, it's easy to see
why his once blossoming
career crumbled.

"I think my life has had a
million great moments and a
million bad ones," he offers.
"It's been a great journey and
I've had a marvelous time. I
had some bad side trips, too;
but that's all in the past now.
Today I'm surrounded by
wonderful people who are not