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BEGUILING BOOKS
First up, there’s an event May 9th for the bookish who are prone to the awesomely funny: LITERARY DEATH MATCH @ Busby’s East, 5364 Wilshire Blvd., LA CA 90036, (323) 525-2615 —...
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CARY GRANT READS THE PAPER
1960, when everybody read the paper, but none so suave as Cary Grant:
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BEGUILING IS PUTTING IT MILDLY – BILL PERSKY AND COMEDY
Emmy night in May 1966, a banner evening for “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” From left, the writer Bill Persky; the show’s creator, Carl Reiner; its stars Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke; and Sam Denoff....
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LUNCH IN THE COMMISSARY WITH BASIL RATHBONE AND ANGELA LANSBURY
A little less elegant than at the Rathbone home, but then I doubt he would be in a dressing gown, or Angela in full costume.
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I DON’T HAVE THE FOOTBALL GENE
Am I allowed to say the high point of the Super Bowl, so far, has been a goat yelling at a man for more Doritos?
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THE INESTIMABLE: BILLY WILDER
That’s the director, lurking in the background, with his trademark owl framed spectacles. When I was a tyke my father took me to a retrospective screening at the DGA of SOME LIKE IT HOT – a then...
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WHAT AN ATTENTIVE HUSBAND, A LITTLE GERSHWIN, A FLYING SAUCER, AND AN AD...
I have been out of sorts lately, it seems to be going around. The kindly gentleman above, however, remembered something I had said years ago, and it turns out he looks every month for a funny little...
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DEBBIE AND CARRIE – HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY
Doris: I was such an awful mother… what if you had a mother like Joan Crawford or Lana Turner? Suzanne: These are the options? You, Joan or Lana?
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Where Did You Go for Your Bra, Mrs. Robinson? – NYTimes.com
Mrs. Robinson: Would you like me to seduce you? By JOYCE WADLER Still, the boyfriend shopping invitation got me thinking that maybe I should get something special for the next time he visits — that...
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Read this book: The Untidy Pilgrim by Eugene Walter
*** Eugene Walter During World War II, Walter spent three years in the Aleutian Islands as an Army cryptographer. He relocated to New York City afterward and became a resident of Greenwich Village...
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I was a little rude about one of the great American authors last week…
Here are the words of Mr. Bennett Cerf, a great publisher, a great wit, and apparently a great guy. May he smooth any heavenly feathers I ruffled in regards to William Faulkner. William Faulkner had a...
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What’s life like with Crazy-Pants Publishing-Girl?
Let’s imagine we’re Mister Lester… Why! I feel so tall all of a sudden! Back to reality here. The Mister does stand about a head taller than me, but I’ve never seen him in eyeliner. I’m not saying it’s...
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BEGUILING IS PUTTING IT MILDLY – BILL PERSKY AND COMEDY
Emmy night in May 1966, a banner evening for “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” From left, the writer Bill Persky; the show’s creator, Carl Reiner; its stars Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke; and Sam Denoff....
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CARY GRANT READS THE PAPER
1960, when everybody read the paper, but none so suave as Cary Grant:
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