As you would expect, Chip Cronkite spoke at the memorial service for his late father, Walter.
But would you expect Chip to direct a documentary about comic book creators?
The Legends Behind the Comic Books Trailer from Stonebridge Productions on Vimeo.
Comedian Barry Mitchell spotted my items about Morty Gunty and he sent a very nice note with a state-of-the-art (for 1964) screen shot. Here is Barry’s YouTube channel. Great stuff, Barry!
http://www.youtube.com/user/barryfunnytv
On a cold January day in 1964, I was did my ventriloquism act on Morty Gunty’s local Channel 9 kiddie show, “The Funny Company.”
It was taped at WOR’s Times Square studio. I believe the address was 1440 Broadway.
Morty asked me my dummy’s name and I told him, “Melvin Mazel.” (“Mazel” is the Yiddish word for “Luck.”)
The attached screen grab is the exact moment Morty asked incredulously, “Melvin MAZEL?” then turned his head and said to an off- camera stagehand, “Irving, he’s from your parish!”
I saw Morty one more time in 1978 when he was performing at a nightclub in Miami Beach. I remember one of his jokes (paraphrasing, here) “My wife is an avid reader. She bought “The Joy of Cooking” and “The Joy of Sex” and brought a brisket to climax.”
Keep Smiling!
Barry Mitchell
I’ll try, Barry! Thanks very much.
According to Fox News, liberal Holland is out of control and drug addicts have run amok, particularly in Amsterdam. One resident of the capital city of the Netherlands begs to differ.
But despite appearances, is Amsterdam in fact a cesspool of decadence and despair? Maybe Karen Damen knows…
The 911 call to the Cambridge, MA Police makes it clear that the caller was acting at the request of someone else, and she said nothing at all about race until she was asked by the police dispatcher. It sounds as though the dispatcher said, “Are they White, Black or Hispanic?” Listen starting at 2:00 into the audio clip.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2009/JUL/911call.mp3]This gives her a lot of credibility when she says that she did not speak with Sergeant Crowley at the scene, contrary to his filed report.
And the recording of Crowley’s radio calls does nothing to substantiate his claim that Professor Gates was loud and abusive.
The big loser in all of this is Obama. He’s lost the backing of cops nationwide, and he’s handed the Right the ammo they needed to question who Sonia Sotomayor will empathize with once she’s seated on the Supreme Court.
Eric and I are doing something we haven’t done in a long time. We’re going to Fenway Park to watch a Red Sox game. I think the last time we went the seats were about $75, but now they’re $125. We’ll be back there on August 5 with Carol to see Paul McCartney. Those seats are $100, but fees bring the total up to about $115. The field seats for the show — which don’t exist for a baseball game, of course — are $200.
Well, the Sox lost to the Orioles, 6-2, but mercifully it was a short game, especially because we got sunburned. I’d like to point out two photos that I took. First, in the background of this one is the Prudential Building, commonly called “The Pru,” making it a must for Prue Bury if she ever visits Boston…
… and the big Budweiser sign makes me want to point out that the King of Beers now belongs to a company in tiny Belgium. The present King of Belgians is Albert II.
I would suppose that the first thought for some Americans when hearing “Gates” and “Harvard” in the same breath would be to think, “Didn’t Bill Gates drop out of Harvard?” But the talk of the town today is the imbroglio surrounding the arrest last week of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. The disorderly conduct charge was quickly dropped. The arrest report is available at The Smoking Gun.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0723092gates1.html
This story is such a big deal here in greater Boston that I’ll weigh in with a few points.
