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TRIBULATIONS & TRIUMPHS
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As head speech writer for the National Children's Leukemia
Foundation's first annual benefit dinner in 1993, I got to put my words
into the mouths of such diverse personalities as Susan Lucci, Hank Aaron, Eli
Wallach, Hulk Hogan and Cindy Crawford. The event was in honor of
the great humanitarian actor, Michael Landon; the two beautiful
children on my right were the youngest of Michael's eleven kids, and the little
boy making the devil sign behind my head was Tyler Noyes, the then seven year
old star of ALL
MY CHILDREN. |
FREEDOM ON THE EDGE was my working title for an autobiography that I
was commissioned to ghostwrite, ages ago, for a slightly eccentric, but
endearing businessman (pictured here, with his girlfriend of the time; their
faces, of course, are covered by the face of a renowned friendly ghost; isn't it amazing
what you can pick up, on the internet?). Body shape and absence of extended
ears would seem
to indicate that this is not Steve Forbes or Ross Perot, but other than that, I
can't tell you much else; ghostwriting means sworn secrecy.
At the time of my friend Tiny Tim's death, I was just starting to put
together a video and CD set, tentatively titled THE LEGEND OF TINY
TIM. Demos of three new songs were recorded, but unfortunately,
we never got to put his voice on them, or to produce what I was sure would have
been hilarious and unique music videos. I do have some rather interesting
performance and behind the scenes exclusive footage, though, including backstage at Tiny's second TONIGHT SHOW
wedding, where I gave away the bride, the beautiful auburn haired Miss Jan,
pictured above. Tiny was truly one
of the most unique and multi-faceted entities that I've ever
encountered, and when I sit down and write his story, biopics about people like
Larry Flynt, Andy Kaufman and Howard Stern will seem like films about Knute
Rockne.
On the surface, the description of HEIL ROACH makes the short story
and adapted thirty minute teleplay sound totally ludicrous. However,
speaking as objectively as I can, I'd have to say that it is one of the
funniest, most moving, most original and most imaginative pieces that I've ever written.
Essentially, this is the tale of Shloimie Fiskowitz, a Hassidic concentration
camp survivor who declares a one man war on domestic cockroaches, because he is
convinced that each individual bug is a specific reincarnated Nazi. Everyone's either
loved this story, looked at me like I was totally out of my mind, or both, but I
don't think too many people have read it and forgotten it. HEIL
ROACH hasn't found it's stage yet, but I'm confident that there is a place
for it, in the literary world, and in the world of socially significant
television.
Before one of us got too high on the prestige scale to associate with the other, Howard
Stern used to let me come on his program, once in a while, and talk about some of my less
note worthy ventures. These pictures are from a few of his nationally televised
fiestas. You might recognize two or three of the other people, scattered
around.
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No one who's seen the video that I directed and produced,
called THE SEENA EXPERIENCE has ever been able to wipe the images
from their minds, and no one
who's visited Seena's eight room, upper west side apartment slash museum
of horror has ever been quite the same. What started out as a
documentary on an artist who takes the term mad genius to levels
you could never imagine, got too bizarre to print, and ended up as
a music video, focusing on about a hundred and twenty pieces of
her work. Without exception, everyone who I'm still in
touch with, and who I showed this five minute piece to, over ten years
ago, still asks me about it, and describes what they remember, in
graphic detail. |
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