Nipsey Russell

            On Saturday morning I translated the first refrain of “Ballade de la chnoufe” (Ballad of the Snuff) by Boris Vian. 

            I memorized the chorus of “Tout l’monde est musician” (Everyone’s a Musician) by Serge Gainsbourg and revised my translation of the third verse. There are only four more verses to memorize.

            I weighed 88.95 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the first of four sessions and it stayed in tune for the whole 90 minutes.

            Around midday I went down to No Frills where I bought five bags of green grapes, some bananas, a small watermelon (an African woman asked me to show her how to tell when it’s a good one), a pack of chicken drumsticks, a loaf of Bavarian sandwich bread, mouthwash, Sensodyne, Arm and Hammer toothpaste, Ziplock bags, Skyflake crackers, orange juice, plain skyr, berry skyr, a bag of PC jalapeno kettle chips, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips. 

            I realized I’d forgotten to hand in my Pico-Salax prescription that Mount Sinai emailed me and so I went to Vina Pharmacy. It took them fifteen minutes to find out if I was covered and then they told me it would take ten minutes so I said I’d pick it up next week.

            I weighed 89.75 at 15:00, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the early afternoon since November 17. I had saltines with peanut butter and five-year-old cheddar with a glass of ice tea. 

            I took a siesta from 15:37 to 17:15 and so it was too late to take a bike ride. 

            I weighed 90 kilos at 17:30. May 22, 2019 was the last time I was that fat in the evening. Maybe some of it’s muscle. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:12. 

            I reviewed the next cassette in the pile and it’s an early rehearsal tape of Christian and the Lions at my place in the Beaches with Tom Smarda, Steve Lowe, and Mike Martin. I haven’t finished listening but the first part is my lyric “Charm and Money” to the tune of “Love and Marriage” by Sammy Khan. I had a light hearted argument with Steve Lowe about his claim that he is no longer interested in sex. I told him he was kidding himself and he took offense. After my relationship with Angeline broke up, and after her relationship with Cad broke up, she was with Steve for a while and he even asked her to marry him. I'm pretty sure they had sex. 

            I uploaded my acoustic version of “Leave Some for Everyone Else” to You Tube. 

             

            I started a new Movie Maker project for my September 23, 2024 song practice. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, the rest of my ham chopped, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching season 1, episode 15 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            This was a Christmas episode and it featured a lot of the main characters doing musical or comedy numbers for a 53rd Precinct Christmas Pageant. All the officers’ wives and children are there including the son of Officer Dave Anderson who screws up the switchboard. Captain Block begins with his baritone voice and a chorus of all of his officers. He sings about how nothing bothers him but the chorus asks if Toody and Muldoon bother him and he says hardly ever. Then Block plays a recording describing proper dress for a police officer while Officer Fleischer comically demonstrates. Toody serenades his wife with a good rendition of “You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You” (written by Russ Morgan, Larry Stock, and James Cavanaugh) while accompanied by Muldoon on guitar. Then officer Schnauzer comes out with the Brotherhood Club. He begins to recite the five principals of brotherhood but they start fighting over the order of the principles. Then Muldoon sings in a choral group about how the policeman’s lot is not a happy one. Then Toody’s brother in law Al does a magic act with the assistance of his sister in law Rose. Bonnie Kalsheim (played by Alice Ghostly), who appeared in a previous episode sings a comical torch song: “I’m waiting for the man that I adore / What shall I call him when my man appears? / Sweetheart, lover, angel, or just dear? / Or shall I call him mon chérie, my life, my flame? / I think I’ll call him Irving because Irving is his name / Irving, whenever he appears birds sing / They keep on twittering “Irving, someone’s in love with you” / Irving, whenever he is near bells ring / To thee I’m only a plaything / But what can I do? / He’s just an ordinary guy, no superman no wiz / Why, in a crowded subway I can’t tell which hands are his / Irving Irving Irving I’m so in love with you / Love is a funny thing / L’amour est un object funny n’est pas? / I always dreamed of the kind of man who would one day steal my foolish foolish heart / He would be tall and dark and handsome and in the Teamsters Union / I guess that’s every girl’s dream n’est pas? / Then along came Irving / How can I describe him? / His face is like the United Nations / Everything is there but it just can’t quite seem to get together / But so what? He’s my Irving, mon man / He’s not the kind of guy you’d see in any Collier ad / but Irving in a bathing suit is… pretty bad / Irving Irving Irving I’m so in love with him / When I look in Irving’s eyes my foolish heart can’t take it / His one eyes says “Come hither” but the other can’t quite make it / It’s not that Irving’s walleyed but of Irving it’s been said / he can watch an entire Ping-Pong game without once turning his head / Irving, whenever he appears birds sing / They keep on twittering “Irving someone’s in love with you”. Then Toody and Muldoon sing about why they’ve been together for ten years in a song called “We Belong to a Mutual Admiration Society”. 

            Officer Anderson was played by Nipsey Russell, who earned the rank of captain in the army during WWII, which was a rare achievement at the time for a black soldier. He formed a stage act with Mantan Moreland in 1952. He got his start in Rock and Roll Revue. He got his first big break on the Ed Sullivan Show, which led to several guest spots on Jack Paar’s Tonight Show. He was a regular on The Dean Martin Show and Dean Martin’s Comedy World. He became known as television’s poet laureate. One of his short poems: “The opposite of pro is con / That fact is clearly seen / But if progress means move forward / then what does congress mean?”. He co-starred in the sitcom Barefoot in the Park from 1973 to 1976. He co-starred in The Wiz as the Tin Man. The show was a box-office failure but became a cult classic. Little Nipper in the comic strip Wee Pals was inspired by him. On Missing Links he became the first black performer to become a regular panelist on a game show. He was a regular on Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

November 30, 1995: I posed for night school at Central Tech

Thirty years ago today

            On Thursday evening I posed in the sculpture studio for a night school class at Central Technical School.

Charlotte Rae

            On Friday morning I translated another couple of verses of “Ballade de la chnoufe” (Ballad of the Snuff) by Boris Vian. 

            I memorized the first half of the chorus of “Tout l’monde est musician” (All of Us Are Musicians) by Serge Gainsbourg and revised my translation of the fourth verse. 

            I weighed 89.05 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my old Epi acoustic during song practice for the last of two sessions. It stayed mostly in tune. Tomorrow I begin a four session stretch of playing my Kramer electric. 

            Around midday I finished applying the second coat of colour paint to my bathroom walls and started on the third and final coat. I got the third coat on the upper left part of the east wall, all of the upper part of the north wall and the right side of the west wall. I don’t think I’ll have time to paint again until next Friday but then I should be able to get the walls done, except for any touch-ups that might be needed when I take the tape off. After that I need to buy the “blue bliss” colour for my bathroom shelves, mirror frame, and door. 

            I weighed 89.3 kilos at 14:49. 

            I took a siesta from 15:15 to 16:50 and it was too late for a bike ride. 

            I weighed 89.9 kilos at 17:20, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since before the summer. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 18:45. 

            I finished reviewing the cassette tape of my first interview on CIUT radio in which I was promoting my launch of Orgasmagazine. Near the end of the show the adorable Kelly Lynn Grace interviewed me. She said she understood why I use the word “Orgasm” because my performances are breathless. Say things like that to me and I’ll follow you everywhere. 

            I uploaded to YouTube the video of my acoustic performance of “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres”. 

            I opened my “2024-10-08 Song Practice” Movie Maker project. I deleted “I Love You. Neither Do I” and copied the project as “Leave Some for Everyone Else”. I isolated the song, added a fade to black effect and published it. I started taking screen shots from the video to use one of them as the thumbnail on YouTube. 

            I grilled three chicken legs and had one with a potato and gravy while watching season 1, episode 14 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            Officer Schnauzer is in the hospital because a cab ran over his foot while he was directing traffic and he got three toes broken. The officers pay into a “Get Well” fund for their injured colleagues and the last payout was $40 but now it’s down to $9.50. Everybody is embarrassed that’s all Schnauzer is going to get but it’ll be Muldoon’s job to pick up the money from the bank account and deliver it to Schnauzer. Meanwhile an FBI agent comes to Captain Block to inform him that the notorious bank robber “No Face” is operating in the area of the 53rd Precinct. They’ve learned that No Face’s real name is Charlie Zimmerman and that Toody went to high school with him. Toody is called in but he doesn’t remember Chuck’s face but only that he had a big behind because he used to hike the ball to him when Toody was a quarterback (I thought one had to be smart to be a quarterback). Toody isn’t going to be a big help but he’s all they have to catch No Face so he is asked to go undercover and check out the local banks to try to find No Face. They give him one of the notes he passes to tellers to get them to hand over the money. Toody knows that Muldoon has studied handwriting analysis and so to see if he can piece together a profile of No Face he gives the note to him. Toody goes to the bank disguised as a beatnik who dances and jumps and snaps his fingers all the time. Muldoon goes to the same bank to get the $9.50 for Schnauser and he is lined up for the teller when he notices the beatnik. He doesn’t recognize Toody and finds him suspicious because f the way he’s checking out all the men’s asses, thinking he might be No Face. When Miss Berger the teller asks Muldoon for his withdrawal slip he is distracted by the beatnik and absent mindedly hands her the bank robber’s note. Then Muldoon pulls his gun because he’s about to arrest the beatnik and the teller just puts all the money in Muldoon’s bag before fainting. Muldoon finds out soon that the beatnik is Toody and it’s a false alarm. Muldoon takes the money to Schnauzer while Berger announces they’ve been robbed. Schnauzer knows he’s supposed to only get $9.50 and is pissed off, so he doesn’t open the bag before Muldoon is called back to the station. Miss Berger is brought in to describe the robber to a sketch artist who draws Muldoon. Captain Block realizes that there’s been a mistake. Then Schnauzer limps into the station even though he’s still supposed to be in the hospital but he wants to thank his friends for the $35,000. Of course Block realizes that is the bank money and it is returned to the bank. The bank manager is so grateful he donates $100 to the Get Well fund and so Muldoon goes to pick up the money. But when Berger sees him she thinks she’s being robbed again and when Muldoon isn’t looking puts all the money into the bag again. 

            Miss Berger was played by Charlotte Rae, who met Cloris Leachman in university and they became lifelong friends. She acted in radio soap operas. She dropped out and went to New York to do plays and sing in nightclubs. She wanted to do drama but her stand-up routines were so good that she was steered in that direction. She made her Broadway debut in Three Wishes for Jamie in 1952. She made her TV debut in 1954 in Look Up and Live. She created the role of Mammy Yoakum in L’il Abner on Broadway. She was nominated for an Emmy for her performance in Queen of the Stardust Ballroom. She returned to Car 54 Where Are You? as the wife of Officer Schnauzer. She played Molly the mail lady on season 3 of Sesame Street. She was a regular on The Rich Little Show. She was cast as Edna Garrett on Different Strokes and her character became so popular that she starred in the spin-off The Facts of Life (for which she also wrote the theme song). She was a spokesperson for Mr. Muscle oven cleaner and Charmin in the 70s. Her only album was Songs I Taught My Mother.

November 29, 1995: I wrote during the day and played at two open stages that night

Thirty years ago today

            On Wednesday I probably spent the day writing and then went downtown to perform at the Fat Albert’s and Art Bar reading series open stages.

John Alexander

            On Thursday morning I translated another couple of verses of “Ballade de la chnoufe” (Ballad of the Snuff) by Boris Vian. 

            I found a YouTube audio for “Tout l’monde est musician” (All of Us Are Musicians) by Serge Gainsbourg and memorized the first verse. I revised my translation of the first three verses. 

            I weighed 89.05 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my old Epi acoustic during song practice for the first of two sessions. 

            At about 12:05 I headed up to Yonge and St. Clair to get a haircut from Amy at Top Cuts. I had to wait about half an hour. For the first time I made it clear to Amy that I want a visible part on the right side. Previously I always tried to make one and my hair would stick up. 

            I had a date to meet Brian Haddon at 14:00 and I was there exactly on time but he was slightly early and waiting for me by the bicycle stands across from the Artful Dodger. He looked seasonally appropriate with the snow falling on him in his long white beard and parka. Our favourite corner seat by the window in the north room was occupied so we sat in the not as cozy corner at the back. I was happy to learn that Brian’s cancer surgery was 100% successful. We shared a pitcher of Creemore. Brian always orders the steak and mushroom pie. I had the Don Juan chicken wrap with chipotle mayo, guacamole, cheddar, lettuce and tomato and it was delicious. We talked for about three hours. We’ll probably get together again in January. 

            It was a cold and damp ride back to Parkdale. I stopped at Freshco where most of the grapes were too soft. I got three bags, three packs of raspberries, a box of frozen buffalo chicken wings, two packs of Full City Dark coffee, three bags of skim milk, a pack of hot Genoa salami, and a pack of Sponge Towels. 

            It was too late to take a siesta. I weighed 88.75 kilos at 18:15.

            I was caught up in my journal at 20:24. 

            I reviewed some of the next cassette on the pile. It’s my first interview on CIUT. The Howl interviewer thought that I was Christian Bok. 

            I had a potato with gravy and the last of my peameal bacon while watching season 1, episode 13 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            Somehow Toody has been elected treasurer of the 53rd Precinct charity fund to raise money for the summer camp for inner city kids. Nobody wanted him to be treasurer and so how did he get elected? They have raised $824 towards their goal and Toody is told to put it in the bank and not to invest it in any get rich quick scheme. Toody tells Muldoon to punch him in the nose if he doesn’t put it in the bank. In the bank he runs into Fink Foster who he once arrested. He has $4000 in the bank and is investing it in Peruvian Tin Plate. Then he meets Tony Shoeshine who used to shine shoes at the precinct. He’s investing in Pratt Plastics which is 50 cents a share but next week it’ll be $50. Toody walks out of the bank without depositing the money and Muldoon punches him in the nose. The next day Fink is arrested again and Tony is back shining shoes. The cops take a vote on whether or not to invest the money and they give in. With the advice of Muldoon’s stock broker cousin Toody invests all the money in the safe stock of a big, successful and solid US company called International Sulphur. But Toody needs to be reassured and so Muldoon takes him to the International Sulphur building to prove it exists. Toody says he has to meet the president C.F. Cartwright. Muldoon doesn’t think he’ll see them but when he learns they are police officers he lets them into his office. Toody walks behind Cartwright’s desk and puts his face close to his to look into his eyes. From then on he has no doubt. Muldoon tells Cartwright about the children’s camp and Cartwright is driven to tears. But when two stockholders in the outer office see two cops leave a crying Cartwright they call up their brokers and tell them to sell. Stock drops for International Sulphur for the first time. Toody assures the other cops at the 53rd Precinct that their money is still safe and invites them to meet Cartwright to reassure them. Cartwright wants them all to know their money is safe with his company and so he lets them take his files to read. But when investors see a parade of cops walking out of Cartwright’s office with his books they think he is under investigation and sell even harder. The stock drops again so the cops go back to Cartwright and he’s heading for Washington to face a sudden investigation into his company brought on by these accidents. He’s late for the airport and so the officers escort him but it looks to reporters like he’s under arrest. Finally a federal investigation uncovers what caused all of this and Cartwright calls Toody to tell him he’s buying the police shares for $1500 and tells him not to come to pick it up, then urges him to put the money in the bank. 

            Cartwright was played by John Alexander, who joined a Shakespeare repertory company at 16 and made his Broadway debut in 1908 in Elmer Brown as the title character. He made his film debut in Baby Take a Bow in 1934. He is best known for playing Teddy Brewster, the man who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt in Arsenic and Old Lace on Broadway and in the 1944 film. He co-starred in The Marrying Kind.

November 28, 1995: I hosted my open stage at the Gladstone

Thirty years ago today 

            On Tuesday night I hosted as always my Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy writers open stage in the Art Bar of the Gladstone Hotel.

Martha Greenhouse

            On Wednesday morning I translated the first couple of verses of “Ballade de la chnoufe” (Ballad of the Snuff) by Boris Vian. 

            I published “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg on my Christian’s Translations blog and posted my translation on Facebook. The next Gainsbourg song on my list is “Tout l’monde est musician” (All of Us Are Musicians). I have the text but may have to extract the song from the Zizi Jeanmaire concert I downloaded. I’ll figure it out on Thursday. 

            I weighed 88.85 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the last of two sessions and I had to retune the B a lot. 

            Today was laundry day but I got started later than usual because I had to sew up the cuff of a pair of pants. I was loading Loonies into the washer slot when at $3.50 it stopped accepting them. I thought one was stuck and another would push it down but that got stuck as well and there is hardly ever an attendant in that place. I had to push the return over and over every which way before I got my coins back. I had to finish paying for the washer with a shitload of quarters. It was after 15:00 when I got my dry laundry home. 

             I weighed 88.8 kilos at 15:55. I had saltines with peanut butter, five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea. 

             I took a siesta from 16:30 to 18:00 so it was obviously too late for a bike ride. 

             I weighed 89.1 kilos at 18:20. I was caught up in my journal at 19:00. 

             I reviewed the next cassette tape on the pile and it was my CKLN radio DJ audition tape. I proposed a show called “Dancing to the Words” featuring song lyrics. I remember recording it at CKLN by myself late at night with no one there to help me. Some of the equipment broke down but I somehow fixed it. The programming director thought it was interesting enough to ask me to submit a second tape but I couldn’t be bothered. I digitized the cassette twice as usual and of course it will skip in places. I need to either get my old Sony tape player hooked up to my computer or else get a better converter. 

            In my “2024-09-09 Song Practice” Movie Maker project I isolated the final take of “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres”. I copied it to a new Movie Maker project with that name. I added fade to black, film grain effect, grey scale, and span the colour spectrum effects. I published it and made some screen shots. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a chopped slice of ham, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching season 1, episode 12 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            Lucille has lately been dominating Toody and he’s tired of it. Lucille’s sister Rose is the opposite. She’s married to Al Henderson who has a domineering personality and not only has control over Rose but also Lucille and Toody. When Rose is talking all he has to do is say, “That’s all Rose!” and she shuts up immediately. Toody and Muldoon are sent to provide security for Shakespeare in the park and the play is The Taming of the Shrew. Toody is inspired by the play and is determined to tame Lucille in the same way. But while Toody is watching the play, Lucille and Rose are watching a TV play called “Crain’s Wife” in which a wife is dominating her husband until he finally leaves her. Lucille begins to cry because now she is worried that she’s driving Gunther away. So when Toody comes home he is determined to assert himself while she has already set her mind to be submissive. She does whatever he tells her, including calling Tuesday “Fim Flam Floom Day”. He says he’s going to stay out until 2:00 every night but he gets bored and miserable and really wants to come home to Lucille but can’t because he thinks he'll disappoint her. Muldoon helps by visiting Lucille and planting the idea that Toody’s with a burlesque performer named Trixie Latush who calls him Hot Lips. He calls the burlesque palace and pretends to learn that Toody is in the show. When Toody comes home Lucille begins to take charge again and tells him he’s not going out anymore. He’s very happy to have Lucille back. 

            Rose was played by Martha Greenhouse who was a member of the Screen Actors Guild from 1955. She was president of her New York local actors union for five years. She co-starred in Tomorrow Night.

November 27, 1995: I cleaned up and worked on my art

Thirty years ago today 

            On Monday there was no work and so I probably cleaned up my place, did some writing and worked on the next issue of Orgasmagazine.

Hugh Downs

            On Tuesday morning I published “Au revoir mon enfance” by Boris Vian and my translation “Goodbye to Childhood” on my Christian’s Translations blog. I posted my translation on my Boris Vian fan page and on my personal Facebook page. The next song on my Vian list is “Ballade de la chnoufe” (Ballad of the Snuff as in the kinds of drugs one snorts). I already had part of the first verse but was able to find all the lyrics and there’s also a YouTube file with the music, so I can start learning the song tomorrow. 

            I published my photo video of the song “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg in Movie Maker and then uploaded it to YouTube. Then I uploaded the text to my Christian’s Translations blog and started preparing it for publication. I’ll probably have it finished tomorrow. 

            I weighed 88.9 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice. For the first half it went out of tune every other song but behaved better during the second half. 

            Around midday I finished applying the first coat of colour to my bathroom walls and about half of the second coat. I’m not sure if it will need a third coat but I have plenty of paint to do so. It looks really good though. It was weird before with the primer still on the bottom and the top painted. It actually made it look darker but now it looks seems bright and delicious. The wall looks like it has vitamins. 

            I weighed 88.85 kilos at 14:25. 

            I took a siesta at 15:00 and got up at 16:30. It was too late for a bike ride and on top of that it was raining but I needed grapes and toilet paper so I rode to Freshco. I got five bags of red grapes and price matched them with the No Frills price of $6.59 a kilo. I also got a pack of toilet paper and a pack of raspberries. 

            I weighed 89.5 kilos at 18:00, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the evening since November 16.

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:04. 

            I reviewed the next cassette tape on the pile and this one was probably the first performance of Christian and the Lions with Brian Haddon on recorder as the Lions. I broke a string and Brian had to improvise for about five minutes while I changed it. I told the audience that we had been practicing earlier in front of the Royal Conservatory of Music. I said they make a lot of noise in there and they’re gonna get theirselves evicted. I digitized it with my convertor but I really have to try to get some cleaner copies, perhaps when I figure out how to hook up my Sony Dolby tape player to the computer.

            In my “2024-09-09 Song Practice” Movie Maker project I cut out all the songs before “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” but still haven’t found the final take. 

            I had a potato with gravy and a slice of peameal bacon while watching season 1, episode 11 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            Officer Charlie Fleischer is always telling jokes in the locker room but only Toody thinks he’s hilarious. He says he calls his girl his melancholy baby because she has a head like a melon and a face like a collie. Later Toody and Muldoon pull over for speeding Hugh Downs, the announcer for the Jack Paar Show. Toody learns that Paar is away and Downs will be hosting this week. Toody calls for assistance from car 126 so Charlie can audition for Downs. Downs is not impressed but then has the idea that having a joke telling New York cop on the show could be a novelty. Toody becomes Charlie’s manager and they are so sure that Charlie will be a success that they’ve written their resignations from the police force. But when Charlie walks out and sees the crowd he literally freezes. Toody comes out to try to get Charlie to snap out of it. He tells one of Charlie’s jokes to demonstrate how good they are and the audience loves it. Now Toody has the stand-up bug, tells all the jokes, is a big hit and everybody on the force is proud of him. Charlie has no problem being the manager rather than the star. But then Downs calls and Charlie freezes on the phone. Muldoon takes over and becomes Toody’s manager. Downs asks Toody to come on the show again and the same thing happens. Toody freezes and Muldoon comes out to help him, ending up telling his jokes and becoming a hit. That’s the end. 

            Hugh Downs played himself. he became a radio announcer in 1939. He announced for Destination Freedom from 1948 until 1950. In 1950 he became the announcer for Hawkins Falls, the first television soap opera. He was the co-pilot on Uncle Ned’s Squadron in 1951. He got his start on television in 1945 when he still had yet to even watch a television. In 1949 he became the host of Kukla, Fran and Ollie. From 1954 to 1957 he announced for The Home Show. From 1956 to 1957 he announced for Caesar’s Hour. He was the announcer and sidekick for Tonight Starring Jack Paar from 1957 to 1962. He hosted the game show Concentration from 1958 to 1969. He co-hosted Today from 1962 to 1971. He was the host of Over Easy. He anchored 20/20 from 1978 to 1999 (On his last show he declared that marijuana should be legalized). He hosted Live From Lincoln Centre from 1990 to 1996. He held the Guinness World Record for most hours on network commercial television until Regis Philbin broke it. He had a post-Masters degree in Gerontology. He was a special consultant to the UN on refugee problems from 1961 to 1964. He was Chairman of the Board for the US Committee for UNICEF. He had several pilot licenses.

November 26, 1995: My daughter and I went tobogganing

Thirty years ago today

            On Sunday it snowed quite a bit and so maybe my daughter and I took the toboggan out to go sliding at Ivan Forrest Gardens.

Virginia de Luce (aka Virginia Wilson)

            On Monday morning I finished editing “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian in my Christian’s Translations blog. All that’s left before publication is to post a YouTube audio or video of the song. 

            I found the final image for my photo video of the song “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg to upload to YouTube. I created a Movie Maker project for the song and imported all the images. I loaded them all in sequence into the video timeline and made some adjustments in the length of time some of the images appear during the song. I finished it and tomorrow I’ll publish it, then upload it to YouTube. 

            I weighed 89.14 kilos before breakfast, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the morning since last Monday. 

            I played my old Epi acoustic for the last of four sessions and it hardly went out of tune at all. I finished my “Monsters” Movie Maker project and published it. It’s not something I plan to upload to YouTube but it’s got clips I might use down the road. 

            I weighed 89.3 kilos at 18:15. That’s the same as last Monday evening. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I was behind on my journal because of dozing off at the computer last night and got caught up at 19:43. 

            I reviewed a cassette tape of my early recordings of “Instructions for Electroshock Therapy” at Mike’s place with Mike on drums. I have some similar recordings on CD but I’m not sure if they are the same. 

            I edited a bit of my 2024-09-09 Song Practice Movie Maker project. 

            I sliced a hunk of peameal bacon and grilled the slices. I had one with a potato and gravy while watching season 1, episode 10 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            Toody and Lucille have been living in the same rent control five room apartment for 15 years and pay $45 a month. But the landlord never fixes anything. The electronics only work if you hit the wall. The gas stove explodes when it’s lit and the heating is also faulty. Usually Lucille deals with the landlord but this time Toody confronts him. When he refuses to fix anything Toody gives him 30 days notice, thinking Corfu would beg them not to leave but he is overjoyed and says he’s been waiting to hear that for 15 years. Toody thinks that he can easily find a new place but doesn’t realize that rents have gone up in fifteen years. A place the size of their old apartment would cost $350 a month and one room would cost $110. Meanwhile Corfu has already found a family that wants to move in. Then a criminal named Cooper who is well known by both Toody and Muldoon is being charged. Toody and Muldoon have to go over to Cooper’s apartment with the detectives to check for stolen goods. Cooper has a nice place that’s rent controlled and he only pays $55. Toody offers to sublet Cooper’s place if he’s sentenced to 3 to 5 years. His only alibi for the night of the crime is that he was with a blonde in New Jersey but she hasn’t turned up. The trial is on moving day. Toody is waiting with the movers for a word from Muldoon who is at the court. He calls to tell him it looks bad for Cooper and so Toody tells the movers they can start loading the van and the other movers can start moving the new tenants in. But then it is learned that the judge was the commander of Cooper’s platoon in the war and now Cooper can do no wrong in the judge’s eyes. Muldoon calls Toody and he says for the movers to move his stuff back in and the new tenants stuff goes back out. But then Cooper is on the witness stand and he says something bad about the judge’s home state of New Jersey and so things go bad for him again and Toody starts moving out. This goes back and forth a few times until Cooper is finally found guilty. Toody and Lucille move in and love the new place but Toody feels guilty. That night when the lights are out and Toody and Lucille are in bed, someone unlocks the door and it’s the blonde. She says she’s Cooper’s wife. She left him for a while but they met up again in New Jersey and decided to get back together. Now Cooper has his alibi and they can get him off, so Toody calls the DA. Meanwhile the new family is finding out what a death trap their new apartment is and want to move out. They say only nincompoops would live there and so Corfu gets Toody and Lucille to move back in. 

            Mrs. Cooper was played by Virginia Wilson, who often went by Virginia de Luce. She was a dancer and singer who appeared in the Broadway show New Faces of 1954 and the film version. She played Florence Coogle in the Broadway play Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? In 1997 she was found dead in a chair and it was determined she’d died several months before that.

November 25, 1995: I enjoyed another Saturday with my daughter

Thirty years ago  

            On Saturday I spent the day with my daughter but I don’t know for sure if she was at my place or if I went up to Scarborough to see her. Either way we probably played outside at a playground.

Maureen Stapleton

            On Sunday morning I continued editing “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian in my Christian’s Translations blog to prepare it for publication. 

            I continued to collect images for a photo video of the song “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg to upload to YouTube. I just need one good image of a woman in a tree to finish. 

            I weighed 88.95 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my old Epi acoustic during song practice for the third of four sessions. It didn’t go out of tune at all. 

            I finally started painting my bathroom walls. Although the wall paint I’m using is a shade of purple it’s called “Pink Parade” and when poured into the tray it really did look pink. At first I thought it was a mistake and that I’d gotten the wrong paint. It even looked a bit pink when I started painting but soon it started showing as a shade of purple. I had hoped to get the first coat on all the walls today but it took an hour to almost do all the parts that I need the step ladder to reach. There’s a section in the southwest corner where the edges didn’t get as much paint. On Tuesday I should have time to finish the first coat. But then Wednesday I need to do laundry and Thursday I need to get a haircut. On Friday I should be able to begin the second coat. Then Saturday I go grocery shopping, Sunday I’m acting in a movie, and Monday I’m going to try to buy a new computer. Sometime soon I need to clean my humidifier. I might have all the painting done by the time I go for my colonoscopy on December 16. It’s amazing how dark the bathroom seems now that it’s half coloured. Forever it was a faded and ragged beige and so it was pretty light. Then I sanded it, drywall-compounded it and primed it and for at least a year it was relatively bright. 

            I weighed 89.45 kilos before lunch. I had saltines with peanut butter, five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 88.75 kilos at 18:10. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:24. 

            I reviewed my digitization of the cassette recording of several Christian and the Lions performances at Fat Alberts. There was some skipping in different places on every copy. The player plays the tapes without glitches but there is something wrong with the tech behind the conversion process. If I order a different convertor from Amazon there’s no guarantee it won’t happen again. I have a Sony double cassette Dolby recorder-player that I haven’t used for decades because I’ve been afraid of not being able to connect it to my amp and my computer. I know it worked before so I should try to get it working again for at least until all my cassettes are digitized. 

            In my 2024-09-09 Song Practice Movie Maker project I synchronized the audio with the video. Tomorrow I’ll work on isolating the song “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres”. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a chopped slice of ham, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching season 1, episode 9 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            A man reports that he went to a Romani fortune teller and left without his wallet and so car 54 is sent to investigate. The captain tells Muldoon to have Toody wait in the car or else he’ll leave the store with pierced ear and a down payment on an earring. The portrayal of Romani people is pretty racist as we see the fortune teller asking her kids why they’re inside on a day like today when they could be sneaking into a movie and stealing popcorn. When Muldoon walks in with the theft victim the Romani woman named Anna Lupesco says, “Good work officer! I see you caught him! He opened our front door and threw in his wallet!” Muldoon accuses her of stealing but she says she’s just a simple soul who doesn’t understand these things but if she did she’d say that he needs a corroborating witness. Muldoon accuses her of living in the store but she says she’s selling diesel locomotives on order. Muldoon goes back to the captain who says to have someone come in with marked bills and catch Anna when she takes them. Since she never saw Toody, Muldoon suggests sending him in civilian clothes so he doesn’t look like a cop. The captain says Toody doesn’t look like a cop in a uniform. Toody goes in and Anna steals his wallet, then Muldoon catches her and she has 24 hours to vacate the store. She curses Toody that he’ll break out in hives on his back and his wife will leave him. Toody believes it and gets hives out of nervousness and also argues with Lucille in his fear, causing her to go and stay with her sister. Toody is miserable without her and so Muldoon tries to track down Anna to get her to lift the curse. He finds her and takes Toody there. When he tells her that her curses came true she is shocked. She implies it’s against her Romani culture to tell the truth and so if her curses came true she’s a failure. She tells her husband and he is also in a panic. She confesses that her father once got a job for two weeks and never got over it. She says they don’t deserve to be called Romani. They are all in the back when a customer walks in and it’s Lucille. Muldoon tells Anna she’s got to get Lucille back with Toody and so she does.

            Anna was played by Maureen Stapleton, who moved to New York to study acting at the age of 18 at the Actors Studio and worked as a model. She made her Broadway debut in Playboy of the Western World in 1946. She won a Tony for her performance in The Rose Tattoo and another for The Gingerbread Lady (which Neil Simon wrote for her), plus four other nominations. She made her film debut in Lonelyhearts in 1958 and was nominated for an Oscar for her performance. She was nominated again for her role in Airport and again for Interiors. She won the Academy award for her performance in Reds. She co-starred in Plaza Suite, The Runner Stumbles, The Fan, The Cosmic Eye, The Last Good Time, Trading Mom, Cocoon, and Cocoon: the Return. She won an Emmy for her performance in Among the Paths to Eden. She was nominated for a Grammy for her recording of To Kill a Mockingbird. She hosted Saturday Night Live in 1979. She was afraid of planes an elevators. When she travelled across the country she took a train and when she crossed the ocean she did so by boat. She was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She said it would be more exciting to be acknowledges as the greatest lay in the world than the greatest actor.

November 24, 1995: I posed for Michael Gerry's class

Thirty years ago today

            On Friday morning I posed at Central Technical School for Michael Gerry’s class in room 307 from 9:00 to 11:40.

Hank Garrett

            On Saturday morning I uploaded “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian to my Christian’s Translations blog and started preparing it for publication. 

            I continued to collect images for a photo video of the song “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg to upload to YouTube. I now have 28 and might need another 20. 

            I weighed 87.85 kilos before breakfast, which is the lightest I’ve been in the morning since last Saturday. 

            I played my old Epi acoustic during song practice for the second of four sessions and it stayed in tune most of the time. 

            Around midday I rode down to No Frills where the grapes were all too soft so I got two bags of oranges instead. I also bought a pack of raspberries, some bananas, a pack of five-year-old cheddar, a Black Forest ham, a pack of two T-bone steaks, olive oil, a jug of iced tea, a jug of orange juice, two small containers of 4% skyr, and a bag of Miss Vickie’s chips. 

            I weighed 88.65 kilos at 14:00. I had saltines with peanut butter, five-year-old cheddar and a glass of iced tea. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 88.85 kilos at 18:00. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 19:01. 

            I finished reviewing the cassette tape of the Christian and the Lions performance at Fat Albert’s. It turns out to not be a feature but rather several open stage performances recorded on the same tape. I think it has the only recording of my song “Spool of the Moon”. There’s also two songs by Tom Smarda. I digitized the cassette twice to make sure there’s no skipping. I’ll check it tomorrow. 

            I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with marinara sauce, tomato pesto, a chopped slice of ham, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore while watching season 1, episode 8 of Car 54 Where Are You?. 

            Toody’s wife Lucille is always trying to play matchmaker for Muldoon with one of her girlfriends. She runs into her old school friend Bonita Kalsheim who she is surprised is single since she was the most popular girl in school. Bonita says she was ruined by Raymond Navarro after seeing him in a movie and then no man was good enough. Now however she is desperate and she will take any man as long as he doesn’t look like Raymond Navarro. Muldoon comes over for dinner and Bonnie is there. She cooked the meal and shows off every talent she has. After that Bonnie stalks Muldoon. She even speeds in her convertible so he’ll pull her over. She joins a police charity of which Muldoon is the chair and he resigns. After three weeks of being everywhere Muldoon goes Bonnie finally tells Lucille she’s ready to give up. But Lucille tells her not to and understands the psychology. Muldoon comes over for Lucille’s birthday and Bonnie is not there so suddenly he misses her. He tries to call but there is no answer. He goes to her place with flowers and hears a party going on. She takes the flowers and closes the door on him. Inside she is alone talking loudly as if to other guys. Finally when Muldoon is at the breaking point Lucille tells Bonnie to jerk the hook and snag him. They go out on a date to a little restaurant where there is a man staring at her. He finally approaches and accuses her of thinking she is too good for everybody but declares she’s nothing. Muldoon stands and grabs him and calls him a lout. Suddenly Bonnie gets up to leave and tells Muldoon she never wants to see him again because what he just did was exactly what Raymond Navarro did in a movie once. She leaves and Muldoon has a drink with the other guy who tells him he was going to marry Bonnie but she rejected him one day when he was paddling a canoe in Central Park because he was paddling exactly the way Raymond Navarro did in North to Alaska. They each toast each other as Raymond. 

            Ed Nicholson, one of Toody and Muldoon’s fellow officers was played by Hank Garrett, who as a child carried a gun until at the age of 12 Sammy Davis Jr. set him straight by giving him a job as his roadie. He worked as a professional wrestler, bodyguard, and competitive bodybuilder. From 1957 to 1966 he wrestled as The Minnesota Farm Boy. He was often shown on Car 54 Where Are You? admiring his own muscles in the mirror. He won the New York Film Critics award for his role in Three Days of the Condor.

November 23, 1995: I posed all day at Central Tech

Thirty years ago today

            On Thursday I posed from 9:00 to 15:00 at Central Technical School.

Billy Sands

            On Friday morning I ran through singing and playing “Goodbye to Childhood”, my translation of “Au revoir mon enfance” by Boris Vian. Tomorrow I’ll upload it to my Christian’s Translations blog to begin preparing it for publication. 

            I continued to collect images for a photo video of the song “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg to upload to YouTube. I have about half of what I need. 

            I weighed 88.2 kilos before breakfast. 

            During song practice I played my old Epi acoustic for the first of four sessions and it stayed in tune reasonably well. 

            Around midday I finished applying painters’ tape to the inner edges of the bathroom shelves and the door frame. It’s a tedious process but I’m excited now that it’s done because I can start painting the walls on Sunday. That put me in a good mood all day. 

            I weighed 89.15 kilos before lunch. 

            In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back. 

            I weighed 88.75 kilos at 18:00. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 18:46. 

            I finished reviewing my “Best Songs 2” cassette and as far as I can remember the countdown is to the #15 best song as “Best Songs 1” has #14 to #1. So the order is #35- “True Love Leaves No Traces”

34 - “I Can’t Forget”

33 - “Lover Lover Lover”

32 - “Leaving Greensleeves”

31 - “Iodine”

30 - “Paper Thin Hotel”

29 - “Fingerprints”

28 - “The Smokey Life”

27 - “The Partisan”

26 - “Nothing to One (You Know Who I Am)”

25 - “Passing Through”

24 - “Diamonds in the Mine”

23 - “There is a War”

22 - “Our Lady of Solitude”

21 - “The Sisters of Mercy”

20 - “Dance Me to the End of Love”

19 - “Don’t Go Home With Your Hard On”

18 - “The Gypsy’s Wife”

17 - “I’m Your Man”

16 - “Jazz Police”

15 - “Tonight Will Be Fine”

            I started reviewing the next cassette on the pile and it’s an early Christian and the Lions feature at Fat Alberts with Tom Smarda on Stratocaster, Steve Lowe on acoustic, and Yehudah Cullman on cello. So far it has recordings of two songs I don’t think I recorded anywhere else “Seven Veils of Armour” and “I Saw My Reflection in An Open Wound”. 

            I compared the video of my electric song practice performance of “Laisses-en un peu pour les autres” on October 9, 2024 to that of September 23. September 23 looks and feels better and so if I upload a version to YouTube it will be the one from September 23. I compared the video of my September 2, 2024 electric song practice performance of “Leave Some for Everyone Else” to that of September 14 and I found that September 14 looks better. I compared September 18 to 14 and September 14 has the better looking video. I compared September 24 to September 14 and saw that September 24 looks a little better. I compared October 6 to September 24 and September 24 continues to be ahead. I compared October 10 to September 24 and if I upload this song to YouTube it will be the September 24 version. 

            Tomorrow I’ll start a Movie Maker project for my September 9, 2024 song practice.

            I had a small potato with gravy and the spine and wings of the chicken I roasted while watching season 1, episode 7 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            There is a car theft ring plaguing the Bronx. They set up pop up used car lots, take orders for used cars, steal the car the customer wants, paint it, sell it, then close down the lot and set up somewhere else. Meanwhile half of the 53rd precinct’s cars are being repaired in the police auto shop. Only car 54 and one other are functioning right now so Toody and Muldoon are being extremely cautious to keep from having an accident. They are driving at 24 km an hour or slower and drivers are reluctant to pass them because they think it’s a speed trap and so a long line of cars are also trailing them at the same slow speed. Meanwhile Honest Joe’s Used Cars has just opened up and an elderly couple want a one year old green four door sedan. Lefty and Leona go looking for the car and Joe says they have to neck while looking because nobody suspects a necking couple. A zig zagging convertible passes car 54 and Muldoon pulls her over. Toody tells him to park behind her to be safe because it’s a woman driver. She explains she just got her license that day after years of lessons and she is very nervous. Muldoon is understanding and doesn’t give her a ticket but when she tries to drive away she goes into reverse and slams into car 54, smashing the fender. Toody has the idea to take it to a non-police shop so as not to be tied up for weeks. Meanwhile Lefty and Leona steal a white sedan and take it to Al and Lou’s garage where the theft ring gets its work done. Al and Lou have to paint it green but then Toody and Muldoon pull in and ask them to fix car 54, which Al says they can have done that day. But meanwhile Toody and Muldoon need another patrol car and they notice the white car is the same model as theirs. So not realizing it’s stolen they have it painted to look like a police car with 54 on it and are able to transfer everything but the siren. Toody and Muldoon take the stolen car to a man reporting a stolen car and it turns out to be that one though he doesn’t recognize it. But he says there’s a teddy bear in the glove compartment. Toody finds one and secretly tells Muldoon they are driving the stolen car. Meanwhile Lefty and Leona are driving in car 54 which they got into in the dark thinking it was the sedan. But while trying to find the cigarette lighter Leona turns on the siren. They don’t realize the siren is coming from their car and think the cops are after them. They go to Joe’s car lot and Joe takes off when he hears the siren. When they get out they see it’s a police car and realize they have to get it back to Al and Lou’s shop. Joe goes to Al and Lou’s and so do Lefty and Leona. Then Toody and Muldoon arrive and arrest them all. Then Al and Lou return with the fender for car 54 and they are arrested as well but not until they fix car 54 and paint the stolen car white again. Al and Lou get off for turning over evidence. The man gets his stolen car back but then the siren goes off and they realize car 54 got painted white. 

            Lou was played by Billy Sands, who made his professional and Broadway debut in 1946 in Rugged Path. He played Private Dino Paparelli in 138 episodes of The Phil Silvers Show. He played Seaman Harrison “Tinker” Bell in 138 episodes of McHale’s Navy.

November 22, 1995: I posed all day at OCA and then performed poetry

Thirty years ago today

            On Wednesday I posed from 8:30 to 15:30 in studio 357 at the Ontario College of Art. In the evening I probably tried to get to Fat Albert’s open stage early enough so I could make it to the Art Bar reading series open stage and perform there as well.

Amelie Barleon

            On Thursday morning I finished translating “Au revoir mon enfance” (Goodbye My Childhood) by Boris Vian. On Friday I’ll run through singing and playing it in English. 

            I continued to collect images for a photo video of the song “Le rent' dedans” (The Pick-Up) by Serge Gainsbourg to upload to YouTube. I now have 15 and I think I need another 35. 

            I weighed 88.45 kilos before breakfast. 

            I played my Kramer electric during song practice for the last of two sessions and at first it went out of tune every two songs but most of the time it was every song. I’m pretty sure it needs fret work done. 

            I had time to shave and shower before riding downtown to Mount Sinai for my appointment with Dr. Croitoru about getting a colonoscopy. I accessed Mount Sinai’s wifi while I was waiting and found the cheapest price for grapes this week to price match at Freshco. I read a bit of Marshal McLuhan’s Guttenberg Galaxy. They kept me waiting at least a half hour. A man who seemed like he might be highly autistic was freaking out in the hallway and had to be restrained by security. I was interviewed by the specialist’s assistant and he looked at my record. I thought it had been about ten years since my last colonoscopy but it turns out it was in 2007. I have an appointment for the procedure on December 16, so it’ll be good to get it out of the way before Christmas. 

            I had to get blood work and fortunately the lab was on the same floor. I didn’t have to wait more than ten minutes. The technician asked if it was okay if a student take my blood and I said he could. He was extremely slow but it didn’t hurt at all. He liked my motorcycle jacket. 

            I stopped at Freshco on my way home where I bought five bags of green grapes, some organic bananas, a pack of Full City Dark coffee, and a jar of Ajvar. I’ve never had it before. It’s kind of a Yugoslavian salsa made from roasted peppers and eggplant. 

            I weighed 88.4 kilos at 15:50. 

            I took a siesta from 16:30 to 18:15. 

            I weighed 88.85 kilos at 18:30. 

            I was caught up in my journal at 20:15. 

            I reviewed a little over half of the mixed cassette tape I made titled “Best Songs #2”. “Best Songs #1” featured what I considered to be the best 14 songs ever written based on the number of great lines. “Best Songs #2” continues that list but I won’t know if the 24 I listened to on one side of the tape are the best of the cassette until I listen to the other side. So far I have all songs by Leonard Cohen: “Diamonds in the Mine” “There is a War” “Our Lady of Solitude” “The Sisters of Mercy” “Dance Me to the End of Love” “Don’t Go Home With Your Hard On” “The Gypsy’s Wife” “I’m Your Man” “Jazz Police” “Tonight Will Be Fine” And at the beginning of the other side is “True Love Leaves No Traces”. I’ll review the rest tomorrow.

            I had a potato with gravy and a chicken breast with ajvar (not bad) while watching season 1, episode 6 of Car 54 Where Are You? 

            The Hollywood sex symbol Theresa Tangiers, who is nicknamed “Tessie the Torso”, walked off the set of a big movie and has gone missing. She is found on a plane headed for Idlewild Airport in New York City. Thousands of fans have gathered and will mob her when she gets off the plane and Toody is one of the police officers sent to help her get away. When they are alone Toody tells her she and Helen Hayes are his favourite actresses. They hear on the police radio that her hotel is swamped with fans and so she can’t go there. Toody gets the idea to take her to Muldoon’s mother’s place where she rents out a room. Theresa loves the idea and kisses Toody just as they are driving by a pair of old ladies who happen to know Toody’s wife Lucille. The first one immediately calls Lucille to tell her about Toody kissing a blonde. Toody takes her to Muldoon’s place where Muldoon has not yet come home. Mrs. Muldoon has never heard of Theresa but her daughters Peggy and Cathy have. Peggy is studying to be an actor and Cathy is a student at Columbia. They both beg their mother to let Theresa stay and Theresa loves it there. Mrs. Muldoon says, “My daughters have never had a sister”. When Muldoon comes home he meets Theresa but at first he doesn’t register who she is when he greets her. When she leaves the room he goes into shock because he is secretly her biggest fan with a romantic crush on her. He retreats to his room. When Toody gets home Lucille is furious and accusatory. When he finally gives in and tells her it’s Theresa Tangiers she doesn’t believe him. She wants to go to the Muldoon house. When they get there Theresa starts kissing Toody with gratitude for having helped her find a home. Lucille recognizes Theresa and is thrilled to see her kissing her husband. She carefully wipes the lipstick onto a tissue for a souvenir. Theresa dresses Peggy and Cathy up glamourously in her clothes because they are going to a dance at the rehearsal hall of Peggy’s drama group. Theresa decides to put her hair up and wear glasses, put on some drab clothes and use the name Yeta Karashinski so no one will recognize her and come along. Lucille says that’s a funny name but Theresa says it’s her real name. Toody gets Muldoon to be her escort after stopping him from escaping out the window. At the dance Peggy and Cathy are extremely popular as dance partners for the boys and Theresa is ignored. Muldoon is too shy to ask her to dance and so she is bored. A teenager comes to ask Lucille to dance but she turns him down, saying she is with her husband. Suddenly Toody is very attracted to Lucille and dances with her and can’t take his hands off her all night. After the dance there are dramatic improvizations. Someone gets up and does a parody of Theresa Tangiers being interviewed. The teacher doesn’t think it’s very good and so Theresa volunteers, getting a big applause and praise from the instructor. But he says she was ingenious in how she captured the phoniness and lack of intelligence of Theresa Tangiers. Theresa storms out and Muldoon follows. As he is driving her he tells her she’ll live forever in the eyes of people like him. Suddenly she notices he’s not taking her back to the Bronx but to Idlewild Airport. He tells her she needs to go back to Hollywood and she agrees. 

            Theresa was played by Lisa Loughlin but there is very little information about her. She also appeared on the Phil Silvers Show and in the movie Death Tide, but that’s it. 

            The first old lady gossip was played by Amelia Barleon who was born in Chicago. She graduated from the Musical College there. In 1904 she was in Vaudeville with John Jack and Company. She acted in small parts in several Edwin Thanhouser silent films in 1910.