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01/18/2017

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Ignatz

He just got Dan Nainan to do the inauguration. He's a 55-year-old stand-up comic who claims to be a millennial, and isn't even wanted at the corner tavern on wings night.

Mike Peterson

He's about five years away from being a Perennial.

Mary in Ohio

Loved your reflections on the original Sesame Street. Remember the original Electric Company ?
Not only Rita Moreno, but Morgan Freeman (who? - at the time)as Easy Reader.

Mike Peterson

I watched Electric Company even if my son was out in the yard or back in his room, but it certainly bled into our family culture. I still quote Morgan Freeman as the umpire in the Spiderman story of "The Wall" -- "I can be pretty stupid, when I want to be!" and am apt to be caught singing "My brother's mother, is my mother, too!"

Now brace yourself for a huge name drop: I was at a conference on youth issues and media and, at lunch, others were too intimidated, I guess, so I plunked myself down next to "Maria" and had a wonderful conversation with an extremely intelligent woman who I didn't have a huge crush on, of course not.

Craig L

Re: Dick Gautier; the one actor I used to mix him up with was Dick Shaun, so I was thisclose to mentioning in a conversation his performances in "The Producers" and "It's a Mad Mad Mad World". But hey, I was a kid when those movies (and Get Smart) came out...

Mary in Ohio

Very impressive, Mike ! "Able to leap Capital T in a single bound !"

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