Burt Bacharach is naked. Or rather, he is very nearly naked. And as hard as I’m trying to ignore this fact, it is proving to be extremely difficult.
I could simply tell you, for example, that the 80-year-old songwriter — arguably the most successful who has ever lived — is sitting by the pool of his $8 million home in Pacific Palisades, a clifftop suburb of Los Angeles.
(2009 Feb 6 / The Times)
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