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I think growing up, I wanted to be more like Johnny Carson than anyone else.

Don't forget BIGDOG.

You must've missed your name.  It's in the paragraph following Carvey and Carrey.

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

He really was a talented man !    Didn't he start off as a radio personality in Nebraska ?   or was that Letterman ?  or both of them started in radio ?

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

Johnny started out as a magician, added comedy, then joined the Navy.  He worked briefly for a year or so in radio but wanted to get into the new medium of television.  He had a few unsuccessful shows, locally shown but struck big with a game show called "Who Do You Trust?"  His announcer was Ed McMahon...believe it or not I'm actually reading a book about him--that's where I am so far.

He was a very troubled man, a heavy drinker and could be ugly at times...hate to tell you that, but don't we all have our "other side" that is not seen publicly? But yes, he was truly a brilliant man and what he did--I found him extremely intelligent and well read and of course, a quick wit.  He had the ability to talk to anyone and bring out the best in them.  A great talent.

Is it true that Ed McMahon had to have a seatbelt on his chair to keep him from falling off from having "the spins" ?

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

I think they switched to Vel-Cro later...Ed started off as a pitchman in my hometown of Atlantic City, selling orange juice squeezers and fountain pens on the Boardwalk...I still can remember those guys with their spiels...they were quite good actually.  Could sell you the Brooklyn Bridge.

Already bought it !


Guess where ?

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

I remember one gent in particular that had me especially mesmerized. He made it sound like everybody was going to get all kinds of free s--t but I all I remember was one lady getting a measly fountain pen or something.  That was it....that's usually when the crowd started to thin out leaving him for his easy prey....

Now that I reflect upon this, I'm almost certain the "disappointment" of everybody not getting the insinuated freebie was the pitchman's ploy of separating the chaff from the wheat and lining up the real suckers...must have been.  

We rented our basement apartment to a couple from Philadelphia.  Their son was an actor of sorts, played a waiter on an episode of "It Takes a Thief" and was Sebastian Cabot's stand-in for those razor blade commercials (he actually did resemble Sebastian but in a more sinister kind of way).  I think he did that pitchman stuff on the boardwalk too from time to time if I remember correctly.

Rip Taylor is a freak. If throwing confetti is brilliant, then he's a genius. He has never made me laugh once. I would have gonged him before he ever got to open his mouth.  

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Er, Jeffie, I was being tongue in cheek there.

OK,  I'm starting to figure out why I might not recall much of who Rip Taylor was. Speaking of New Jersey, Although Michael J Pollard, never really was the most impressive actor in the world, there was something about his appearance, and the cab driver part in Bonnie and Clyde that was amazing IMHO... He just has that sinister appearance down to the T... Almost like Jeff Bridges had the part of the psycho down in the american version of "The Vanishing"... Some ex never returned my european version of that movie..    This is why I no longer lend my classic films out to prospective ex's..

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

To be technical and creative is tought because doctors believe these are controlled by two different sides of the brain. A person can burn a lot of calories and create a lot of stress using both.

It's been a LONG time since I studied psychology.  Thought's on this stuff seem to change, so I don't know what todays theories are regarding "left" "right" brained, etc.  Over the course of the past 30 years, I just have no idea as to what beliefs are today on this, and how conclusive studies are currently.  Is this still even "psychology" ?  or is it now categorized as "Neurology"?  Somebody in here that teaches likely would be more aware of current thoughts on developmental psych.  Even parents in here for that matter.

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

I think the creepiest performance I've ever seen was by Robert Walker in Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train".  He was so evilish in that, and what is funny is prior to that he had spent years at MGM playing "boy next door types".

Another actor who was a superb heavy in the movies, particularly in the 1950s, was Raymond Burr, who had the market cornered in creepy villains.  Speaking of Hitchcock and Burr, if you've ever seen "Rear Window" a lot of people sometimes ask why Raymond Burr was made up with the white hair and the glasses, etc.  Well, it was an inside joke.  Hitchcock, who despised David O. Selznick, who had held Hitchcock under his contract for many years, made Burr up deliberately to look like Selznick--and he does!

Remember, you heard it here foist!

All I know is we "lefties" are superior in all aspects....

I have a lot of lefties in my family. They do seem to be very creative and good at pretty much everything they do.

The funiest person I've ever met is my nephew who is 6 years old. He has an understanding for humor that most adults don't have. He is one of the lefties.

You sure are,  there is NO other person besides the south-paws that can knock into elbows and disturb we right handed writers during exams as proficiently !

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

My father is a true ambidextrous (assuming this is considered possible now).. Was always able to bowl, write, pitch, and amateur box lefty or righty with equal ability. When I boxed in HS, and college I took blows to both sides of my head with equal ease.  I assume this doesn't necessarily make a person talented, but....oh well...

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Northeast United States runner up for the "Singing Hall of Shame".

I always get stuck on the left side of a lefty. My wife and I have to sit a certain way when dinging out with friends or family because of her leftiness. When my sister came to visit with her kids, there were only two their that were right handed, me and my sister. Thet took a special seating arrangement.

Her inlaws used to blame her for them being left handed. They all quit school in fourth grade to be brain sugreons.