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May 21,
RobertGoulet Seeks Canadian Citizenship
Cassandra Szklarski, Canadian Press
TORONTO -- The rich baritone and magnetic stage presence of Robert Goulet have garnered him fame, wealth and international stardom but after a lifetime of accolades one prize still eludes him -- Canadian citizenship.
The square-jawed singer says he longs for official recognition of his ties to the Great White North, where he spent his formative years honing the deep voice and matinee idol swagger that first took Broadway by storm some 40 years ago.
"I feel Canadian," Goulet says by phone from his Las Vegas home.
"I tried to become a citizen for a long time but the red tape is going to drive me nuts.
"It's always red tape. I've got a senator from Alberta working on it."
Although often claimed by Canadians as their own, Robert Gerard Goulet was actually born in Lawrence, Mass., roughly 45 kilometres north of Boston.
He moved to the Edmonton area at age
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Singer Robert Goulet Dies at Age 73
He had been awaiting the transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after being funnen last month to have a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis.
Goulet had remained in good spirits even as he waited for the transplant, said Vera Goulet, his wife of 25 years.
"Just watch my vocal cords," she said he told doctors before they inserted a breathing tube.
Goulet's longtime friend Wayne Newton said his sense of humor "kept my spirits up in some of the lowest valleys in my life."
"His incredible voice will live on in his music, and as Bob so brilliantly sang, 'There will be another song for him and he will sing it,' for God now has another singing angel by his side," Newton said in a statement.
The Massachusetts-born Goulet, who spent much of his ungdom in Canada, gained stardom in with "Camelot," the Lerner and Loewe musical that starred Richard Burton as King Arthur and Julie Andrews as his Queen Guenevere.
Goulet played Sir Lancelot, the arrogant Frenc
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Robert Goulet
Robert Goulet, actor and singer: born Lawrence, Massachusetts 26 November ; three times married (two sons, one daughter); died Los Angeles 30 October
The dashing singer and actor Robert Goulet, once described by Judy Garland as "a living eight-by-ten glossy", won overnight fame when he was cast as Lancelot in the original Broadway production of Camelot, which starred Julie Andrews, with whom he fell in love, and Richard Burton.
It was not an entirely rewarding role, since the knight was depicted in his opening number, "C'est Moi", as arrogant and smug – the critic Howard Taubman wrote in The New York Times, "Lancelot, sung and played splendidly though he is by Robert Goulet, is a pompous bore." Other critics found his acting stiff, but Goulet's fine lyric baritone and handsome appearance in shining armour won audience sympathy. According to Camelot's composer Alan Jay Lerner, the New York first night audience were unresponsive at first, then "At the opening of th