Sid Caesar’s satirical sketches, second banana Carl Reiner Imogene “Twinkle toes” Coca….Woody Allen in disguise!
Remember the Avenue J bus that Woody Allen caught on his way to his morning Midwood High
School classes ON Bedford Avenue while Jackie Robinson’s Ebbets Field Dodgers, that trip to school, included JuloieRaskin who wrote a note as Chairman of the PhysicalEducation Department to UCLA, favoring “the Flying Philosopher”, Henry Fuchs, the English Department Chairman, Murray and Kappie Eisenstadt ,both serving 185 birthdaystogether…Murray 95, Kappie 90, at a gala under the 4 Bridges in Williamsburg, his role as Civics pro&mento, tennis coach, the Eisenstadts into bridge cards in the Senior Center at Brooklyn College, Murray also Chairing the enrolling classes for Seniors…in addition to his tennis acumen at the Arthur Ashe Billy Jean King facilities in Astoria(having moved the U.S. Open from Forest Hills)
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But in the afternoon, Woody Allen departed fo producer Max Liebman “Show of Shows” for the Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Imogene Coco (tinsel toes) rehearsals.
Here Howie Morris, or second banana Carl Reiner would go through their paces, mimicking the sanity of the post WW2 powers&nuances of post WW2 ego trips of “Civilization and the disco0ntents” as auteur Mel Brooks interpreted it.(“2000 year old man”)
A MOUITHFUL WE HEAR YOU SAY WITH THE WISDOM OF CBS’S Edward R. Murrow (“Voice of America”), Eric Severod (Tufts Board of Directors) Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, Lawrence Lowman. (Ray Bloch’s musical scores)….long before Archie Bunker, chronicles of Norman Lear’s farther of Hartford, Connecticut. Where we lectured FreshmanPhilosophy at the U/conn. branch on Asylum Avenue..
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Passengers on the bus driven by Montana Frank**** once of North Hollywood and Montana, were Matilda Cuomo, wife of Governor of Ne York Governor Mario, and mother of the 21t century Governor Andrew, and CNN’s correspondent Chris Cuomo.
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The bus passing the drug store where Midwood’s Physics a andChemistry teacher Al Padow worked his “charisma” and charm,since departing his post in Midwood’s Science Department. Along his side in the pharmacy was a Syracuse Universitygraduate, Larry
Baumwall, ) a caring sensitive Midwood High alum of East 26Street state of mind.****
August 15, 2016 Verdugo Hills High School Sunland Tujunga California. ….MGM’s Dore Schary, pianist leaders Andre Previn, Lukas Foss (Brooklyn Philharmonic) “Annie Hall” Diane Keaton……..”to be continued”
