1 9 6 6 - 'Help', Rocio Durcal, Jerry Adriani, Peppino Di Capri...

2nd January 1966 - 'Law of the lawless' translated as 'O juiz enforcador' (The hanging judge) maybe because the original title had been 'Invitation to a hanging'. It was made by Paramount as a double-feature but ended up doing well at the box-office. Yvonne de Carlo was no spring-chicken when she played Ellie Irish 'the most luscious frame-up girl in the West'. Miss De Carlo was 39. Old timer William Bendix was 57 and that's his last appearence at the silver screen. His daughter Lorraine Bendix is also in the cast and so is Lon Chaney Jr. 

2nd January 1966 - Francisco Eydio at Club de Paris; at Club Ichiban Matsuko Kasuko, dubbed the greatest singer in Japan will sing on 9 January. I wonder if the dancing bands who play on regular days at Club Ichiban is the same Benito di Paula who went to the top of the charts circa 1974-1975.

13 February 1966 - Brazilian movie distributors were so out-of-step with what was going on in the world they claimed Spanish young-star Rocío Dúrcal was Latin-American. 'Canção da juventude' (Canción de juventud) Miss Dúrcal 1st flick was shot in 1961, so it was 5 years late. 

13 February 1966 - 'O Estado de S.Paulo's night-life columnist Mary Wynne shows her age when she tells the similarities between the popularities of Roberto Carlos and Frank Sinatra... or even Bing Crosby, going further back in the past.

Quase ia dizer que nunca vi uma onda tão grande como está esse caso sério de Roberto Carlos. Mas, enfim, uma velhinha como eu ainda posso lembrar do negócio das moças desmaiando por causa de Frank Sinatra no Paramount Theatre de New York... e ainda mais, quando eu era broto, o Bing Crosby... que foi o primeiro cantor do gênero 'crooner'. Será quantas pessoas que ainda recordam de 'Sweetheart of Sigma Chi', 'Lazy River', 'When the moon comes over the mountains' (canção-tema de Kate Smith) e tantas outras 'oldies'? Bem, o Roberto Carlos é o Crosby ou o Sinatra brasileiro da atualidade, ou melhor ainda, nas palavras dele mesmo: 'É uma brasa'. Roberto Carlos, como em todos os domingos, é o cantor-'host' do jantar de amigos hoje no San Fernando na Rua Diogo de Faria, 1379 esquina da Ascendino Reis.

13 February 1966 - Roberto Carlos and his troupe would dine at San Fernando;every Sunday night after they performed at they performed at high-ratings TV show 'Jovem Guarda' that was beamed from 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM:  Giane & Demonios da Garoa performed at Fasano; at Os Vikings on Rua Nestor Pestana, Renato Mendes and his combo accompanied Flora, who soon would leave for the USA and make herself a winning international jazz career alongside her percusionist husband Airto Moreira. 

Corrientes 348 which is part of the lyrics of 'Media luz', a famous tango was located at Rua Dona Antonia de Queiroz, Consolação, and it was obviously an Argentine place. The ad was written in plain Spanish.

3 April 1966 - The Beatles's second movie 'Help!' (Socorro) premieres in Sao Paulo after having won Rio de Janeiro's Film Festival in 1965. Read the review written by OESP's columnist.

17 July 1966 - Sunday - at Cine Republica the rarest possible showing of Marx Brothers in 'A night at the opera'. You see, the Marx Brothers were not popular in Latin America owing to their kind of humour which depended on the knowledge of the English language on the part of the audience. Grouch relied on English to convey his jokes. That's why Marx Brothers movies were not popular in a Spanish and Portuguese speaking market. I would have been delighted to have had the chance to see 'A night at the opera' when I was 17 years old but I missed it. I probably didn't buy the Sunday newspaper that particular week. I only came in contact with the Marx Brothers flicks 20 years later in the 1980s.

25 September 1966 - voloptuous Argentine sireen Isabel Sarli is back at Cine Boulevard with 'Favela' where she is shown stark naked during her Yemanjá bath. 

28 November 1966 - rock'n'roller heartthrob Jerry Adriani teams up with French actress Annik Malvil and Brazilian baladeer Pery Ribeiro in 'Essa gatinha é minha' (This pussycat is mine).

24 November 1966 - 'Viagem ao mundo dos prazeres' (Canzoni nel mondo), a 1963 documentary directed by Vittorio De Sica was only 3 years too late... Peppino di Capri, Mina, Gilbert Becaud etc.