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Traveling ★★★★
with the Stars
by Tim Boxer
KIAMESHA LAKE, N Y.— What docs Alan King do? Of course,
he’s a film producer, a stage and screen actor, and a comedian starring at
the poshest supper clubs in the country.
At the Concord Hotel he complained about the current occupant of
the White House: “Someone asked me, ‘Does Ronald Reagan dye his
hairT No, that’s the next color after white.”
He even had something to say about the
previous occupant: “Can you imagine—if 1
went into the office of a network president
and said 1 had a great idea for a situation
comedy about a peanut farmer who becomes
president of the United States He has a
sister who is an evangelist, a brother who is a
drunk, a mother who, at age 65, joins the
Peace Corps. They’d throw me out of the
office!”
He complained about the Moral
Majority: “Jerry Falwell is a charming man.
He gave me a pamphlet with 92 points. If
you don’t believe these 92 points you are not
a good Christian. 1 don’t need Jerry Falwell
to tell me I’m not a good Christian. 1 knew
that eight days after 1 was born!"
He complained about the American Medical Association: “It took the
AM A 30 years to decide that chicken soup can cure. But they still don’t
know it’s not the chicken soup. Campbell’s chicken soup won’t do it.
Your mother's chicken soup can do it. That’s because your mother’s
chicken soup is love."
Even his parents complain. They celebrated their 65th wedding
anniversary last year in Florida. His mother, who is 86, thinks his father,
92, is deaf just to spite her. But his father says, “If she says something new,
I’ll hear it."
The grandfather was an itinerant rabbi. One day Alan’s brother took
the old man to see Alan in an amateur show. Back at the synagogue they
asked the rabbi what Alan does in the show
“He stands on the stage and he burchshels," he replied.
“That’s what I’ve been doing for 43 years," Alan says.
Before his smashing show at the Concord, Alan King held court in his
dressing room. Pancho Segura, world pro tennis champ for 25 years and
confidante of Jimmy Connors, was introduced to Alan by advertising
executive Robert Towers.
New York lawyer Robert Pomerantz reminded Alan that his
grandfather, Harris Pomerantz, owned the building where Alan was
born.
“That’s right,” Alan said. “At 295 S. Second Street in Williamsburg.
My grandfather was the janitor.”
Alan said he spent the day looking for locations for a new motion
picture to be shot in the Catskills next summer. It’s a film for Warner Bros.
“Why Go Further?” which he’ll produce and co-write but not act in.
“It’s based looiely on my first summer in the mountains," he said.
“That was in 1942 when I was 15. It’s my love letter to the people who
came to the Catskills.”
Tim Boxer
* * *
Barbara Corday, executive producer of the summer scries “Reggie,”
seen Thursdays on ABC-TV, knows the plot too well.
The half-hour comedy stars Richard Mulligan coping with his midlife
crisis.
Barbara said her husband went through a midlife crisis. He is Barney
Rosenzweig, exceptive producer of “Cagney & Lacey," a popular police
series which CBS declined to renew for the coming season.
“When Barney was 40,” Barbara said, “he picked himself up and went
to Israel—without me We were living together 1 was low down on his list
at the time. At 41 he woke up and said, ‘Let’s get married.’”
Brooklyn born, Barbara went to P S. 152 and Huddle Jr. High
School. Her grandfather, Sigmund Kornbleuth, was a Yiddish
playwright and an editor of the Forward. Her father, Leo Corday of St.
Petersburg, Fla., wrote “There’s No Tomorrow," which became the theme
song for Woody Herman and Les Brown. He also wrote “See the U.S. A.
in your Chevrolet,” which Dinah Shore sang in 1949, and which ran in
commercials for 25 years.
Her maternal grandparents, Bess and Robert Rich, were in
vaudeville. Their third child could play the drums at age 2. Today, Buddy
Rich is still playing the drums.
Her grandfather was concerned about Barbara’s future, and told her
mother, “She can’t sing, she can't dance What will she do? How will she
make a living?"
“That’s why," Barbara says, “1 named my company Can’t Sing Can’t
Dance Productions.”
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