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ON THE TOWN: Call Allee Willis a...

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ON THE TOWN: Call Allee Willis a triple threat. Hit Songwriter. Party Gal. And now Artist. (It seems only fair to bestow capitals on anyone who makes 3-D assemblages of such Atomic Age artifacts as Rambler hubcaps, pink Melmac dishes and Frigidaire handles.) Willis showed off all three specialties the other night as she celebrated her Serious Art Debut by throwing a bash at the Dorothy Goldeen Gallery in Santa Monica. The gala’s highlight--an art auction hosted by professional billboard starlet Angelyne, who offered an abbreviated history of art lecture as party-goers bid millions (in play money) for tacky black velvet paintings. Live music was provided by the Fabulous Del Rubio Triplets, a trio of buxom middle-aged identical twins who performed hilariously authentic lounge-act renditions of “Light My Fire,” “Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ ” and Willis’ own “Neutron Dance.” Pop celebs on hand included ex-Police guitarist Andy Summers, members of Johnny Hates Jazz, Barry Manilow, Susan Anton, Leslie Ann Warren, Princess Stephanie, Ray Parker Jr., Stephen Bishop and Julie (West Coast) Brown, who sped the auction along by personally signing all of the velvet paintings. “The party just seemed to be the right away for me to enter the world of art,” explained Willis, who sold several of her own paintings, offering a whole room full of “Somewhat Priced to Move” budget-priced art. “I found the Del Rubio Triplets when they performing exclusively in old-age homes. And I really thought Angelyne was great as our version of Vanna White. To hear her define surrealism was--well--modern art itself.”

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