Groucho Marx and Alice Cooper became fast friends when they met, performing a duet of “Lydia the Tattooed Lady” at birthday party for Frank Sinatra.
GROUCHO AND ALICE COOPER ARE FRIENDS
Posts Categorized: Celebrities
People I value: SIR IAN MCKELLAN
I’m taking the time to thank people whose work I value. While they’re alive to appreciate it. Today it’s SIR IAN MCKELLAN, the one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of his generation.
People I value: RICKY JAY
I’m taking the time to thank people whose work I value. While they’re alive to appreciate it. Today it’s RICKY JAY, legendary master of magic, card tricks and sleight of hand.
STAGE MANAGING: HOW I DIDN’T GET STARTED, PART IV
I left my position in the bookstore for a job in show business. That’s right, I was going to be stage manager at an equity waiver theater. The Big Time, was just a step away.
INTERVIEW WITH RC MATHESON
RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON is a bestselling short story writer, novelist, screenwriter/producer and drummer. How many people can say that? (And he studied, one on one, with the legendary drummer Ginger Baker!) RC is also the president of Matheson Entertainment, a production company he formed with his father, which is involved with multiple film and television projects.
MEETING JAMES M. CAIN
When the AFI scheduled a screening of DOUBLE INDEMNITY and said that Cain would be there in person, I had to go. I’d seen INDEMNITY before, of course, but never in a theater. And certainly never in the presence of the Master himself.
TOM WAITS AT THE BOOK STORE: HOW I DIDN’T GET STARTED, PART III
I saw Tom Waits and Richard Burton in my time as bookstore clerk at Crown Books
