Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1961)

party (Dancing to a record player in a basement rumpus room, man, that’s living!) ... or a beach barbecue (He still loves hot dogs.) ... or to a horror movie (She’ll get scared and hang on to his hand.) . “Don’t muss my hair” The list of what he doesn't like is amazingly short : long phone calls and girls who muss his neat, oversized pompadour. (Is that the mystery about the girl he dropped so suddenly? Which was she, a phony or a pompadour-musser? He won’t say, any more than he’ll tell about the pinky ring which is practically part of him.) He likes a million things. Swimming (won a letter at High) . . . baseball (was a crack first baseman and fast on his feet ) . . . Sinatra recordings . . . Sammy Davis Jr. . . . photography . . . and many serious things. Like going to church with his folks as often as he can. He’s a Catholic with a deep faith in God. He doesn’t talk about religion much, hut when he’s got a problem, he likes to get alone and pray for guidance. . . . He’s very sensitive hut not touchy, and in his hook, when it comes to loyalty and friendship, you can’t have one without the other. And both are fine to give and get, hut not to be used as a rung on the old success-ladder. Most important thing in the world to him are his parents. He’s an only child and has a close relationship with his pop and mom. He’ll keep little problems to himself, hut talk over the big ones with them, and they know they’re lucky to have it that way. He gets to spend only seven or eight weeks a year at home, but he wouldn’t dream of having his own apartment, though he could well afford it. He loves coming home with a load of presents for his parents and the relatives. His big thrill of 1960 was the look on his mother’s face when she opened a box, pushed back layer after layer of tissue paper — then saw the mink stole! When Bobby does come home, his folks usually haven’t seen him for maybe two or three months since the last visit. Yet they’ve hardly had him to themselves a minute when they go generous and signal the neighborhood, “Bobby’s home.” The code is via Venetian blind — jiggle the slats open and shut, open and shut, over and over very fast for a few minutes. It wears out the cord, hut it sure starts the phone ringing. Pretty soon aunts, uncles and cousins are crowded around the big oval dining room table and his grandmother Nina is commanding, “Eat! Eat!” This is the family part of the homecoming. After dinner, friends will drop in, or Bobby will go out with one of his favorite home-town girls. Maybe an actionpacked movie, a snack at the soda shop and some dancing to the juke box. He’s downright careful not to talk show business — lie’s afraid she might get bored. A couple of days home, and he starts in on his two perennial schemes. “Pop, how’d you like to go along with me, invest in a nice little hide-out in Florida for you and Mom?” “I don’t know, Bobby, we talked about it last time, remember? 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I know who’d end up walking the puppy forty-five weeks out of the year.” This is true, too. He’s on the road more weeks than a traveling salesman. But now lie’s home, and he belongs to his folks. Up in his room, he turns to the drums of his boyhood, and to his model planes. Before he knows it, lie's reaching for a wing tip and a strut. . . . This is Bobby Rydell, a few weeks before his nineteenth birthday on April 26. Some days he makes model planes . . . and other days he talks about wanting to get married. In five years, lie’s decided. Probably in the long run. he’ll end up with a neighborhood girl. Not beautiful, but cute. And his wife won’t work. She'll give him a hig family, stay home and mind the kids, cook good Italian meals, love him like crazy, laugh a lot and get one whale of a kick out of living. Meanwhile, he’s reaching for the airplane glue. Anil after all, when was a teenager all-of-a-piece? A boy one minute, a man the next — sometimes even his own mother doesn’t know him. --Hose Peklberg Bobby sings on the Cameo label, and will be seen in Columbia’s “That Hill Girl."