B’way team sings again
“The Maestro,” about Leonard Bernstein, will be nominated for seven Oscars in two weeks.
Next week, the Carlyle, so upscale that JFK and his various roommates lived, will also be swinging around Bernstein.
Rick Miramontes, the VIP publicist who holds the annual Tony Awards party there, has staged Broadway productions at the hotel.
On two nights, March 3rd and 4th, he will be re-enacting the original old “A Party With Betty Comden & Adolph Green” revue with Bernstein on piano.
The Green children, Amanda and Adam, who watch over their property, are enjoying this A-No. 1 oldies.
In Carlyle, Mallory Portnoy and Nick Bremire play a couple. They also played a married couple in “Maestro.”
In 1933, the famous pair, formerly nightclub reviewers at New York’s Village Gate, went on to become B’way’s longest songwriting partnership, lasting 60 years.
result? “On the Town” (1944), “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952), “Will Rogers Follies” (1991), “The Bells Are Tolling” (1956), “Broadway” SROs such as “The Berkeley Family” (1949), “The Life of a Doll” (1982), and “Aunt Mame” (1958).
Almighty Miramontes says: “Maybe we can do it again on Broadway next time.”
Marley’s past “legend”
Decades ago, on the island of Jamaica, Ellen Ann Bloomfield, a Jewish Syrian, married Albert Thomas Marley.
Her baby, Norval, became a marine officer and a plantation supervisor.
Norval married Cedella Editha Booker. Their child, Robert Nesta Marley, became the famous reggae artist Bob Marley. — Influenced by his Jewish father, he began wearing the “chai” symbol, which means “alive” in Hebrew.
His son married a Persian of the same faith. His grandchildren are Jewish Israelis.
It is estimated that thousands of Jamaicans have Jewish roots. Did anyone know? !
Funny person
When Gene Wilder was eight years old, his mother became ill. Her doctor told him to “make her girlfriend laugh.” He did it.
He and friends Harry Connick Jr., Carol Kane, and Alan Alda appear in a documentary called “In Memory of Gene Wilder.” Released on March 15th
Mel Brooks: “He was naive, innocent, kind, simple, honest. But when he got excited, he was like a volcano.”
difficult questions
A friend who is applying for U.S. citizenship was taken aback by the questions in the 20-page document.
The police officer asked the applicant if he had ever advocated overthrowing the government by force or violence. This is page 12 of the naturalization application form, question 10.
And uninspected illegal immigrants are coming in through rat holes?!
Suggestion: Why not fill the water bed adjacent to the southern border with alligators?
Question: Why is Viagra like going to Disneyland?
Answer: You have to wait an hour for a two-minute ride.
It’s just Florida, kids. Only parts of Florida and New York.
