Fast Tracks

December, 1984

Close Shave: Gillette approached ZZ Top and offered big bucks for Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill to remove their beards for a TV ad. No soap. Gibbons refused, saying that he was too ugly to do it and the band was too ugly, too.Reeling and Rocking: Producer Allan Carr's latest discovery is disco singer Sylvester, who has a new stage show and an album out. Carr is planning to take his hit Broadway musical La Cage aux Folles to the silver screen and hopes to find Sylvester a part in it.... David Bowi...