Toasting The New Year

Toasting the New YearAndré Previn, versatile and prolific man of modern music, skoals his impending concert tour of Russia with a brandy alexander. Previn's particular potable, like Gaul, is divided into three parts -- equal quantities of brandy, crème de cacao and cream -- vigorously agitated with ice in shaker, then strained into frosty cocktail glass.Fred Astaire has laid aside (for the nonce, at least) his long-time role as dance-and-song man to play host, and straight dramatic parts, on TV'...