Since NBC broadcast the last Bob Hope special in 1996, when the comedian was 93, prime-time network television has hardly been welcoming country for old men. “I can’t believe that all this is happening,” Mr. 20, NBC will broadcast a two-hour prime-time special commemorating his birthday. HarperCollins released a new book of his reminiscences of important people in his life. The Empire State Building was lit in his honor, the switch thrown by his seemingly unlikely buddy and recording partner Lady Gaga. Bennett began 2016 by winning his 19th Grammy. While his live performance with a Muppet would not be a career highlight, a stumble as the float lurched back into motion and a steadying hug from the famous pig would go viral, and punctuate a year when it already seemed like All Tony, All the Time.
Bennett would be riding on the penultimate parade float - taking second billing only to Santa and his sleigh - and singing “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” with Miss Piggy. This day, roughly 70 years into a career that began as a singing waiter in Astoria, Queens, Mr. Early Thanksgiving morning, Tony Bennett woke up in a strange bed on the wrong side of Central Park.įor years, he has lived with his third wife in a Trump building on Central Park South, but the couple spent the night in a Madison Avenue hotel to avoid the security gridlock surrounding the staging areas of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which, like Mr.
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