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Uma Thurman; Graham Rahal; and Gossip. PLUS:Tuesday’s Top Ten; The Knicks' Coach Isiah Thomas Hopes to Hang On; “Secret Talents of the Stars”; a Man Waiting for a Bus; a Scene from “John Adams”; Great Moments in Presidential Speeches; Small Town News; and our Technical Maintenance Supervisor Gary Mintz Saves the Day.
“ . . . and now, performing the smash hit Muskrat Love’ . . . . . David Letterman!”
ACT 1:
During the pre-show Q&A, a woman in the audience said she wanted to hear last night’s Top Ten list. She admits to missing the show last night. Back stage we scurried to get a copy of the list off the LATE SHOW website. Although we all wanted to re-read the Wahoo Gazette, I urged the operator on the keyboard to go to the Top Ten and make a copy. The list was then run out to Dave. Dave read the first few items from the accountants’ list.
The LATE SHOW – the only show with LIVE Tivo. I’m not sure but I think this is what the writers strike was all about.
Have you been following the awful Knicks this season? New York City, home of the greatest basketball talent in the world, is saddled with a putrid professional basketball team. The Knicks have replaced Isiah Thomas as their president, but Isiah is lobbying to stay on as coach. To help his cause, he has compiled brief videos which highlight some of his accomplishments as coach. We see one. Announce: “On April 23, 2007, in a game against the first-place Boston Celtics, Isiah Thomas looked quite sharp in his gray pinstriped suit and yellow polka-dot necktie.
This has been ‘Great Moments in Isiah Thomas’ Knicks Career.’”
Sigh . . . . . perhaps I’m too anal . . . . . but in April of 2007, the Celtics were not in first place. They were awful, too, just like the Knicks. In April 2008, yes, the Celtics are in first. April 2007, no.
CBS had a show called “Secret Talents of the Stars,” in which celebrities demonstrate talents other than the ones they’re famous for, but they canceled it after one episode. Dave thinks he knows why the show didn’t work. We see a promo they ran. Announce: “It’s the most star-studded show on television, and only CBS has it: ‘Secret Talents of the Stars.’ Tune in to see your favorite celebrities showing off talents you didn’t even know they had, as ‘Star Trek’s’ George Takei turns country crooner, Clint Black brings down the house with his stand-up comedy, and Osama bin Laden wows the audience with his magic act.” (We see Osama make a goat appear from nothing.)
“’Secret Talents of the Stars’: Only on CBS.”
Who would have thought... Osama bin Laden will last longer than George W. Bush.
While Dave is preparing to go on to the next order of business, an elderly gentleman enters. He appears to be a bit lost. Dave asks, “Can I help you?” The man says, “No, I’m just waiting for the bus.” DAVE: “I think the bus stops outside.” MAN: “Oh.” The gentleman then leaves.
Too bad for the guy. If he were here last night, Dave could have given him his Metrocard.
Dave can’t get enough of the HBO miniseries “John Adams.” It is a fascinating piece of work. We have a clip highlighting last night’s episode.
We see Mr. Mulligan speaking to John Adams who is off camera. Mulligan: “Mr. Adams, we have spent countless occasions together. I’ve seen you cut a humble figure in your farmer’s clothes and simple brown wig and an elegant one in your waistcoat and powdered wig. What look is this exactly?”
Cut to wide shot. JOHN ADAMS: “I’m a little girl.”
We see John Adams dressed in an adorable red and white checkered dress.
. . . . . OK . . . . .
GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES
We see the President standing with a shovel alongside a big pile of dirt. Bush: “I’m gonna shovel . . . . dirt! Heh heh heh heh.”
ACT 2:SMALL TOWN NEWS – some of these are so funny, when you hear it stuff will fly out of your nose.
- The Cape Gazette (Lewis, Delaware): “Cemetary [sic] plot, double depth and double depth vault. Never used.”
- The Leader-News (Greenville, Kentucky): “Malone Lumber Anniversary Sale. Free to first 50 customers --- 5 gallon plastic pail. Lid sold separately.”
- The State (Columbia, South Carolina): “A woman called police to report a road rage incident. The vehicle in front stopped to make a turn. A vehicle behind them blew the horn. A female passenger in that vehicle threw what appeared to be a muffin at their car.”
- The Hometown Gazette (Kalamazoo, Michigan): A job listing: “Medical billing specialist. 2 years experience bilking Medicare-Medicaid.”
- The Enterprise-Record (Chico, California): “A woman stopped for suspicion of driving under the influence badly failed a field sobriety test. She asked friend Jon Akerson to pick up the passengers from her vehicle. Akerson allegedly showed up inebriated and was also arrested.”
- The Clare County Review (Clare, Michigan): “New breastfeeding support group starting. Please bring a brown bag lunch. Beverages are provided.”
- The Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania): “Mr. and Mrs. Rick Bath of Dallas announce the engagement of their daughter, Tara, to Jonathan Bird.” It’s the Bird-Bath wedding.
- The Webster-Kirkwood Times (Webster Groves, Missouri): “Officers received a report of a dog running loose. After warning the owner, the officers claimed the dog was smiling at them when they left.”
- Yourhub.com – a supplement to the Denver Post (Denver, Colorado): “An off-duty police officer reported seeing a one-handed construction worker masturbating at a job site. The worker’s supervisor allegedly told police she didn’t think the man could be masturbating because --- having only one hand --- he wouldn’t be able to hold the Stop sign and masturbate at the same time.”
ACT 3: TOP TEN: Questions President Bush Asked The Pope
#10. “Where is the little lady?”
#4. “What are you doing for Passover?”
#3. “Could you record a wacky greeting for my voicemail?”
UMA THURMAN: Recently survived jury duty. How did that go? It involved lots of sitting around and waiting and then being told, “no thanks.” Dave tells his story of being called to jury duty. He was told to go home before the process even got underway but Dave insisted on staying to go through the proper channels. He wanted to fulfill his civic duty. Dave says that happens to him a lot; being asked to leave but staying anyway.
Uma lives in the City but also has a place in the country. She used to like spending time in the country but now isn’t so sure. She’s afraid of the criminal element and having no one around to hear her scream. She says, “In the country, no one can hear you scream.” Oooh, that sounds like the premise of every gore movie of the past 30 years. To ease her mind, Uma has placed champagne glasses on all the window ledges inside her house. If anyone breaks in, she’ll hear the glasses break. I guess she hopes that before she is dismembered by the intruder, he’ll give himself a nasty cut on a glass shard. It doesn’t quite equalize, but it is something.
We then see two photos of Uma; one with Al Gore at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert; and the other at some fashion show. In the 2nd photo, Uma suffered a bit of a “nip slip” when her right breast became exposed through her sheer blouse. Dave, ever the gentleman, covered the exposed portion with his fingers. He then did a comical Senor Wences: “Is everything all right?” Followed with, “’s’awright.” And if you go to the southwest corner of 54th and Broadway, you will see the street sign proclaiming it “Senor Wences Way.”
Uma Thurman --- her new film The Life Before Her Eyes opens Friday in select cities.
ACT 4:
Bumper coming back . . . Felicia’s not in today. Filling in we see our audio engineer Mike Muller on guitar. Nice job, Mike.
Back from commercial, Dave raves over the beauty of Miss Thurman, but right in the middle of it all, the picture on the screen goes screwy. It goes all fuzzy. Dave notices it and asks if someone can do something to fix it. Cut to our technical maintenance engineer, Gary Mintz, sitting in his office. He too notices that one of the cameras is not working properly. He immediately jumps to action.
GARY: “Oh, no, Dave needs me!”
Intense music plays as Gary gets up and dresses himself in A-Team style; fatigues, bandana, full tool belt; army boots; Army tank top; and eye-black. He runs down the hall. He pushes one staffer to the side with the charge, “One side, this is an emergency!” Gary runs upstairs to the stage, barreling past anyone in his way. He quickly makes it over to Dave Dorsett’s camera and gives it a bang, a bang, and another bang. Suddenly, the fuzzy picture becomes clear. He growls at Dave, “You owe me, Hollywood!” Gary then runs out the back of the theater, but not before grabbing a young beauty in the audience and planting full-frontal lip kiss.
And away he goes.
ACT 5: Announce: “Tomorrow on the Late Show, Dave is joined by Kelly Ripa, climate change expert Dr. John P. Holdren, and musical group, The Black Keys. This show has not been given Underwriters Laboratories seal of approval. . . . . because it will shock you!
We’ll be right back.”
ACT 6: GRAHAM RAHAL: The son of racing legend Bobby Rahal, Graham is the youngest driver in history to win an IndyCar series race. He won the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg last week at the age of 19.
19? I got my license at 19!
Dave is partners with Bobby Rahal in the IndyCar Series, half of Rahal/Letterman Racing, and Dave is amused and bewildered at how much Graham sounds like his dad, Bobby. (At what age do you stop calling a man “Bobby”?)
I watched the end of the Honda Grand Prix back on April 6th. Dave’s driver was in 2nd or 3rd place with two laps to go. I was hoping Ryan Hunter-Reay would make a run for it at the close. But I lost track of him. What happened? Unfortunately, he ran out of petro.
One disappointing thing about winning a race at the age of 19 is you can’t indulge in the customary celebratory champagne. But Graham must have had some fake proof because Dave gave him a bottle of the bubbly from our private stock. And as any 19 year old would do, he opened it, thumbed the top, shook it, and sprayed the audience.
Next up for Graham: The 34th Long Beach Grand Prix
ACT 7: GOSSIP: From their new CD, “Live in Liverpool,” Gossip performed “Standing in the Way of Control.” Hey! I liked that! I really enjoyed that.
And that was our show for Wednesday April 16, 2008.
Last week in New York City, midtown’s Cheyenne Diner closed down for good. The Cheyenne was your typical, old-fashioned diner, the kind of diner you picture diners should be. But . . . . it was time for it to go. Instead, a 9-story apartment building will be going up where the Cheyenne Diner once stood. I ate there only once years ago when I missed the last bus home to Rockland County at around midnight. The next bus wouldn’t leave till 6 the next morning. Hating to be a bother, I didn’t call anyone to come get me and decided to wait it out. I could have hired a cab but I’m cheap on myself. So I walked the streets and rode the subways most of the night. I stopped for a drink here and stopped for a drink there. And I stopped in for a bite at the Cheyenne Diner just down the block from the Madison Square Garden. I don’t remember what I ordered but it was likely a Western Omelet, sausage on the side. It warmed me on a chilly night. And filled my belly. Anyway, thanks for taking care of me that night, ol’ Cheyenne. For a city that has everything, it’s getting harder and harder to find a lot of it in Manhattan.
I was thinking of the Cheyenne Diner last week when I was driving my daughter Dominique home from the dentist in Rockland, 30 miles north of the City. She hadn’t eaten yet and I promised her we would get something to eat after her A.M. appointment. Wanting something quick, she suggested McDonald’s. I resisted the idea. I was looking for an old mom-and-pop luncheonette somewhere in town. It wasn’t all that easy to find. She was growing impatient and wanted something NOW, like McD’s. We ended up at a place called Rhoda’s in New City. It’s a place I’ve passed hundreds of times but never stopped in. By this time Dominique had her heart set on McDonald’s. Under protest, she agreed to go to Rhoda’s. Once inside, I admired the aged carpeting, the wobbly tables, and the brown uneven paneling. I doubt Dominique noticed. We talked about this and that while we waited for our order. She ended up getting a cheeseburger. I got a Hobo. She loved her cheeseburger and was pleasantly surprised with my Hobo. If we had gone to McDonald’s, our lunch date would have been forgotten by the next day. Hopefully, she’ll remember Rhoda’s when she’s looking for a place like that to eat with her kids.
It’s too bad the Pope is too late for the Cheyenne Diner. Missed it by two weeks. He would have loved the deviled eggs.
A few weeks ago was the anniversary of the death of Gil Hodges, first baseman for the World Series Champion 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers and manager of the 1969 Amazing New York Mets. I’m a Yankee fan, always have been, and have enjoyed many Yankee championships, but there was nothing like the 1969 Mets. Gil Hodges died two-and-a-half years after the Amazing Mets of ’69 in 1972. I was shocked . . . SHOCKED . . . to learn he died at the age of 47. I always remember him as an old guy. 47 isn’t old! That’s young! Heart attack at 47. Oy vey.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
From Bentonville, Arkansas, it’s the hognoxious Bobby Smittle
This concludes another episode of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
Michael Z. McIntee
mikemack@aol.com
Uma Thurman; Graham Rahal; and Gossip. PLUS:Tuesday’s Top Ten; The Knicks' Coach Isiah Thomas Hopes to Hang On; “Secret Talents of the Stars”; a Man Waiting for a Bus; a Scene from “John Adams”; Great Moments in Presidential Speeches; Small Town News; and our Technical Maintenance Supervisor Gary Mintz Saves the Day.
“ . . . and now, performing the smash hit Muskrat Love’ . . . . . David Letterman!”
ACT 1:
During the pre-show Q&A, a woman in the audience said she wanted to hear last night’s Top Ten list. She admits to missing the show last night. Back stage we scurried to get a copy of the list off the LATE SHOW website. Although we all wanted to re-read the Wahoo Gazette, I urged the operator on the keyboard to go to the Top Ten and make a copy. The list was then run out to Dave. Dave read the first few items from the accountants’ list.
The LATE SHOW – the only show with LIVE Tivo. I’m not sure but I think this is what the writers strike was all about.
Have you been following the awful Knicks this season? New York City, home of the greatest basketball talent in the world, is saddled with a putrid professional basketball team. The Knicks have replaced Isiah Thomas as their president, but Isiah is lobbying to stay on as coach. To help his cause, he has compiled brief videos which highlight some of his accomplishments as coach. We see one. Announce: “On April 23, 2007, in a game against the first-place Boston Celtics, Isiah Thomas looked quite sharp in his gray pinstriped suit and yellow polka-dot necktie.
This has been ‘Great Moments in Isiah Thomas’ Knicks Career.’”
Sigh . . . . . perhaps I’m too anal . . . . . but in April of 2007, the Celtics were not in first place. They were awful, too, just like the Knicks. In April 2008, yes, the Celtics are in first. April 2007, no.
CBS had a show called “Secret Talents of the Stars,” in which celebrities demonstrate talents other than the ones they’re famous for, but they canceled it after one episode. Dave thinks he knows why the show didn’t work. We see a promo they ran. Announce: “It’s the most star-studded show on television, and only CBS has it: ‘Secret Talents of the Stars.’ Tune in to see your favorite celebrities showing off talents you didn’t even know they had, as ‘Star Trek’s’ George Takei turns country crooner, Clint Black brings down the house with his stand-up comedy, and Osama bin Laden wows the audience with his magic act.” (We see Osama make a goat appear from nothing.)
“’Secret Talents of the Stars’: Only on CBS.”
Who would have thought... Osama bin Laden will last longer than George W. Bush.
While Dave is preparing to go on to the next order of business, an elderly gentleman enters. He appears to be a bit lost. Dave asks, “Can I help you?” The man says, “No, I’m just waiting for the bus.” DAVE: “I think the bus stops outside.” MAN: “Oh.” The gentleman then leaves.
Too bad for the guy. If he were here last night, Dave could have given him his Metrocard.
Dave can’t get enough of the HBO miniseries “John Adams.” It is a fascinating piece of work. We have a clip highlighting last night’s episode.
We see Mr. Mulligan speaking to John Adams who is off camera. Mulligan: “Mr. Adams, we have spent countless occasions together. I’ve seen you cut a humble figure in your farmer’s clothes and simple brown wig and an elegant one in your waistcoat and powdered wig. What look is this exactly?”
Cut to wide shot. JOHN ADAMS: “I’m a little girl.”
We see John Adams dressed in an adorable red and white checkered dress.
. . . . . OK . . . . .
GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES
We see the President standing with a shovel alongside a big pile of dirt. Bush: “I’m gonna shovel . . . . dirt! Heh heh heh heh.”
ACT 2:SMALL TOWN NEWS – some of these are so funny, when you hear it stuff will fly out of your nose.
- The Cape Gazette (Lewis, Delaware): “Cemetary [sic] plot, double depth and double depth vault. Never used.”
- The Leader-News (Greenville, Kentucky): “Malone Lumber Anniversary Sale. Free to first 50 customers --- 5 gallon plastic pail. Lid sold separately.”
- The State (Columbia, South Carolina): “A woman called police to report a road rage incident. The vehicle in front stopped to make a turn. A vehicle behind them blew the horn. A female passenger in that vehicle threw what appeared to be a muffin at their car.”
- The Hometown Gazette (Kalamazoo, Michigan): A job listing: “Medical billing specialist. 2 years experience bilking Medicare-Medicaid.”
- The Enterprise-Record (Chico, California): “A woman stopped for suspicion of driving under the influence badly failed a field sobriety test. She asked friend Jon Akerson to pick up the passengers from her vehicle. Akerson allegedly showed up inebriated and was also arrested.”
- The Clare County Review (Clare, Michigan): “New breastfeeding support group starting. Please bring a brown bag lunch. Beverages are provided.”
- The Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania): “Mr. and Mrs. Rick Bath of Dallas announce the engagement of their daughter, Tara, to Jonathan Bird.” It’s the Bird-Bath wedding.
- The Webster-Kirkwood Times (Webster Groves, Missouri): “Officers received a report of a dog running loose. After warning the owner, the officers claimed the dog was smiling at them when they left.”
- Yourhub.com – a supplement to the Denver Post (Denver, Colorado): “An off-duty police officer reported seeing a one-handed construction worker masturbating at a job site. The worker’s supervisor allegedly told police she didn’t think the man could be masturbating because --- having only one hand --- he wouldn’t be able to hold the Stop sign and masturbate at the same time.”
ACT 3: TOP TEN: Questions President Bush Asked The Pope
#10. “Where is the little lady?”
#4. “What are you doing for Passover?”
#3. “Could you record a wacky greeting for my voicemail?”
UMA THURMAN: Recently survived jury duty. How did that go? It involved lots of sitting around and waiting and then being told, “no thanks.” Dave tells his story of being called to jury duty. He was told to go home before the process even got underway but Dave insisted on staying to go through the proper channels. He wanted to fulfill his civic duty. Dave says that happens to him a lot; being asked to leave but staying anyway.
Uma lives in the City but also has a place in the country. She used to like spending time in the country but now isn’t so sure. She’s afraid of the criminal element and having no one around to hear her scream. She says, “In the country, no one can hear you scream.” Oooh, that sounds like the premise of every gore movie of the past 30 years. To ease her mind, Uma has placed champagne glasses on all the window ledges inside her house. If anyone breaks in, she’ll hear the glasses break. I guess she hopes that before she is dismembered by the intruder, he’ll give himself a nasty cut on a glass shard. It doesn’t quite equalize, but it is something.
We then see two photos of Uma; one with Al Gore at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert; and the other at some fashion show. In the 2nd photo, Uma suffered a bit of a “nip slip” when her right breast became exposed through her sheer blouse. Dave, ever the gentleman, covered the exposed portion with his fingers. He then did a comical Senor Wences: “Is everything all right?” Followed with, “’s’awright.” And if you go to the southwest corner of 54th and Broadway, you will see the street sign proclaiming it “Senor Wences Way.”
Uma Thurman --- her new film The Life Before Her Eyes opens Friday in select cities.
ACT 4:
Bumper coming back . . . Felicia’s not in today. Filling in we see our audio engineer Mike Muller on guitar. Nice job, Mike.
Back from commercial, Dave raves over the beauty of Miss Thurman, but right in the middle of it all, the picture on the screen goes screwy. It goes all fuzzy. Dave notices it and asks if someone can do something to fix it. Cut to our technical maintenance engineer, Gary Mintz, sitting in his office. He too notices that one of the cameras is not working properly. He immediately jumps to action.
GARY: “Oh, no, Dave needs me!”
Intense music plays as Gary gets up and dresses himself in A-Team style; fatigues, bandana, full tool belt; army boots; Army tank top; and eye-black. He runs down the hall. He pushes one staffer to the side with the charge, “One side, this is an emergency!” Gary runs upstairs to the stage, barreling past anyone in his way. He quickly makes it over to Dave Dorsett’s camera and gives it a bang, a bang, and another bang. Suddenly, the fuzzy picture becomes clear. He growls at Dave, “You owe me, Hollywood!” Gary then runs out the back of the theater, but not before grabbing a young beauty in the audience and planting full-frontal lip kiss.
And away he goes.
ACT 5: Announce: “Tomorrow on the Late Show, Dave is joined by Kelly Ripa, climate change expert Dr. John P. Holdren, and musical group, The Black Keys. This show has not been given Underwriters Laboratories seal of approval. . . . . because it will shock you!
We’ll be right back.”
ACT 6: GRAHAM RAHAL: The son of racing legend Bobby Rahal, Graham is the youngest driver in history to win an IndyCar series race. He won the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg last week at the age of 19.
19? I got my license at 19!
Dave is partners with Bobby Rahal in the IndyCar Series, half of Rahal/Letterman Racing, and Dave is amused and bewildered at how much Graham sounds like his dad, Bobby. (At what age do you stop calling a man “Bobby”?)
I watched the end of the Honda Grand Prix back on April 6th. Dave’s driver was in 2nd or 3rd place with two laps to go. I was hoping Ryan Hunter-Reay would make a run for it at the close. But I lost track of him. What happened? Unfortunately, he ran out of petro.
One disappointing thing about winning a race at the age of 19 is you can’t indulge in the customary celebratory champagne. But Graham must have had some fake proof because Dave gave him a bottle of the bubbly from our private stock. And as any 19 year old would do, he opened it, thumbed the top, shook it, and sprayed the audience.
Next up for Graham: The 34th Long Beach Grand Prix
ACT 7: GOSSIP: From their new CD, “Live in Liverpool,” Gossip performed “Standing in the Way of Control.” Hey! I liked that! I really enjoyed that.
And that was our show for Wednesday April 16, 2008.
Last week in New York City, midtown’s Cheyenne Diner closed down for good. The Cheyenne was your typical, old-fashioned diner, the kind of diner you picture diners should be. But . . . . it was time for it to go. Instead, a 9-story apartment building will be going up where the Cheyenne Diner once stood. I ate there only once years ago when I missed the last bus home to Rockland County at around midnight. The next bus wouldn’t leave till 6 the next morning. Hating to be a bother, I didn’t call anyone to come get me and decided to wait it out. I could have hired a cab but I’m cheap on myself. So I walked the streets and rode the subways most of the night. I stopped for a drink here and stopped for a drink there. And I stopped in for a bite at the Cheyenne Diner just down the block from the Madison Square Garden. I don’t remember what I ordered but it was likely a Western Omelet, sausage on the side. It warmed me on a chilly night. And filled my belly. Anyway, thanks for taking care of me that night, ol’ Cheyenne. For a city that has everything, it’s getting harder and harder to find a lot of it in Manhattan.
I was thinking of the Cheyenne Diner last week when I was driving my daughter Dominique home from the dentist in Rockland, 30 miles north of the City. She hadn’t eaten yet and I promised her we would get something to eat after her A.M. appointment. Wanting something quick, she suggested McDonald’s. I resisted the idea. I was looking for an old mom-and-pop luncheonette somewhere in town. It wasn’t all that easy to find. She was growing impatient and wanted something NOW, like McD’s. We ended up at a place called Rhoda’s in New City. It’s a place I’ve passed hundreds of times but never stopped in. By this time Dominique had her heart set on McDonald’s. Under protest, she agreed to go to Rhoda’s. Once inside, I admired the aged carpeting, the wobbly tables, and the brown uneven paneling. I doubt Dominique noticed. We talked about this and that while we waited for our order. She ended up getting a cheeseburger. I got a Hobo. She loved her cheeseburger and was pleasantly surprised with my Hobo. If we had gone to McDonald’s, our lunch date would have been forgotten by the next day. Hopefully, she’ll remember Rhoda’s when she’s looking for a place like that to eat with her kids.
It’s too bad the Pope is too late for the Cheyenne Diner. Missed it by two weeks. He would have loved the deviled eggs.
A few weeks ago was the anniversary of the death of Gil Hodges, first baseman for the World Series Champion 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers and manager of the 1969 Amazing New York Mets. I’m a Yankee fan, always have been, and have enjoyed many Yankee championships, but there was nothing like the 1969 Mets. Gil Hodges died two-and-a-half years after the Amazing Mets of ’69 in 1972. I was shocked . . . SHOCKED . . . to learn he died at the age of 47. I always remember him as an old guy. 47 isn’t old! That’s young! Heart attack at 47. Oy vey.
CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
From Bentonville, Arkansas, it’s the hognoxious Bobby Smittle
This concludes another episode of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
Michael Z. McIntee
mikemack@aol.com
ACT 1 • Show Open • Dave's Monologue Watch now • Great Moments in Isiah Thomas's Career • CBS's "Secret Talents of the Stars" Cancelled • Old Man Waits For Bus • Great Moments In Presidential Speeches
ACT 2 • Small Town News
ACT 3 • Top Ten Questions President Bush Asked the Pope Read now
