Monday, June 30, 2008

THE JOB SEARCH GOES ON

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Well, I've been out of work now exactly one week and it really feels like I'm a shoreless boat. Of course, the job hunting has gone ...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

WE REMEMBER ED WYNN

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On this day in 1966-- we lost one of the greatest comedians of all times. Often called "The Perfect Fool"-- and world renown...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GENE WILDER

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Today is Gene Wilder's 75th birthday. What an amazingingly funny and very human man. His life has had many ups and downs. Gene of course...
Monday, June 09, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLE PORTER

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Today would have been Cole Porter's 97th birthday. What an amazing composer! What a brilliant lyricist! I can only hope he is entertaini...
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Monday, May 26, 2008

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY

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Happy Memorial Day To all! I remember my dear Uncle Al would go out on this day and put flowers on the graves on all of the relatives-- even...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

A DAY OF HOPE

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A day of hope exists today. Even though it appears that my job will end on June 20th-- a little less than a month from now-- I do have a pho...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORIE

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Today is my sister Lorie's 66 th birthday. It's also a pretty historic day in other respects. Jimmy Stewart would have been 100 yea...
Monday, May 19, 2008

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It's a scary thought when you think that job may end. We've been informed that Ritz Camera is closing my store in the Sherman Oaks F...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

A BIRTHDAY FOR HAIR AND A GREAT BAND LEADER

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Well today would have been the birthday of one of the greatest jazz composers of the 20th Century--none other than Duke Ellington who was bo...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

REMEMBERING GALAGHER & SHEEN & WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

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Besides being the birthday of two of the greatest vaudevillians in history, it is also the birthday of the great bard, Himself: William Sh...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

MAGIC WITHOUT "ABRA CADABRA"

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Magic doesn't always happen because of a clever magic trick or a great illusion or a special effect in a movie. Magic without the words ...
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Friday, April 04, 2008

WE REMEMBER MARTIN LUTHER KING

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On this day forty years ago, the amazing and gifted Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis at the Loraine Motel shown here on ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBBIE REYNOLDS

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Happy 76th birthday to a great show lady and Hollywood legend: the one and only Debbie Reynolds. My favorite role of hers was "The Sing...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

SUPERMAN SINGS

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Today indeed was interesting for Broadway history. The first thing is that today is the anniversary of Kander and Ebb's Woman Of The Yea...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

THE REUNION OF WESTBROOK & SNYDER

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Well put on a Happy Face for on Monday, April 7th at 8pm there will at long last be the return for about a week of Tony Westbrook from Ne...
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Monday, March 17, 2008

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY

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Today is indeed Saint Patrick's Day: the day of great feasting and drinking and grand celebrations and the day that I always telephone m...
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Thursday, March 06, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHEN SCHWARTZ AND WE REMEMBER LOU COSTELLO

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Today we celebrate two birthdays. The first is for the very much alive Stephen Schwartz who turns sixty years old today. I wrote him a ver...
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Monday, March 03, 2008

A READING HAPPENS AND A CAROL BURNETT ROSE

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Well we had a reading of one of our shows this past Sunday. It was "The Ghost Who Saved Broadway" the song that "One Last ...
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Friday, February 22, 2008

AN IMPORTANT NEIL SIMON ANNIVERSARY

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Loving Neil Simon's comedies are one thing. But loving Neil Simon and the characters that he created for the stage because you studied c...
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

A DAY IN THE RECORDING STUDIO

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John Nugent and I went into Smooth Sounds studios on Sunday, February 17th at noon and amazingly recorded sixteen of the scheduled seventeen...