#Ronald Sklar

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Leaders in Law 2018: Firm Attorney of the Year Nominees

Dr. Dariush Adli, ADLI Law Group P.C.

Angela C. Agrusa, DLA Piper

James L. Arnone, Latham & Watkins LLP

Ryan Baker, Baker Marquart LLP

Bob Baradaran, Greenberg Glusker LLP

Brandon E. Barker, Mintz Levin

Michele J. Beilke, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Ivy Kagan Bierman, Loeb & Loeb LLP

Jonathan Bloch, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP

Mark A. Bonenfant, Buchalter

Susan J. Booth, Holland & Knight LLP

Karie Boyd, Boyd Law, APC

Lee S. Brenner, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Brad D. Brian, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

Kimberly Buffington, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Richard S. Busch, King & Ballow

Christopher Caldwell, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP

Alexander Calfo, King & Spalding

Ronald R. Camhi, Michelman & Robinson, LLP

Ralph A. Campillo, Mintz Levin

Meryl K. Chae, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Apalla U. Chopra, O’Melveny & Myers LLP

Dawn T. Collins, Barnes & Thornburg

David M. deRubertis, The deRubertis Law Firm, APC

Juan J. Dominguez, The Dominguez Firm

Kevin M. Ehrhart, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Matthew Erramouspe, O’Melveny & Myers LLP

Mia Farber, Jackson Lewis P.C.

Marc A. Fenster, Russ August & Kabat Law

Alfred Fraijo, Jr., Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Jerome H. Friedberg, Isaacs Friedberg LLP

Yesenia M. Gallegos, Fox Rothschild LLP

Stephen M. Garcia, Garcia & Artigliere

Jasmine Gevorkyan, Gevorkyan Law Firm

Dale J. Giali, Mayer Brown

Lisa Gilford, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Patrick D. Harder, Nossaman LLP

Genie Harrison, Genie Harrison Law Firm

Arash Hashemi, Law Offices of Arash Hashemi

Terri Hilliard, Terri Hilliard, PC

Gerry Hinkley, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Mark Holscher, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Harry I. Johnson, III, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Mitchell A. Kamin, Covington & Burling LLP

Franklin D. Kang, Polsinelli LLP

Richard Kaplan, Kaplan Marino, PC

Andrew T. Kirsh, Sklar Kirsh LLP

Gregory W. Knopp, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Eric M. Krautheimer, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Dana A. Kravetz, Michelman & Robinson, LLP

Bethany W. Kristovich, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

Kevin B. Kroeker, Crowell & Moring LLP

Barry Kurtz, Lewitt Hackman

Michael Leventhal, Holmes Weinberg, P.C.

Aaron Lewis, Covington & Burling LLP

Timothy Long, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP

Tre Lovell, The Lovell Firm, A Professional Law Corporation

Sarah M. Luetto, Hersh Mannis LLP

Mike Margolis, Blank Rome LLP

Nina Marino, Kaplan Marino, PC

Jaime Marquart, Baker Marquart LLP

Thomas J. Masenga, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Source: http://labusinessjournal.com/news/2018/nov/07/leaders-law-2018-firm-attorney-year-nominees/

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Dictatorship USA – A Personal History – Part 16

The University of Wisconsin Madison was widely considered to be a home for “leftists.”

To a considerable extent because of its “radical” History department.  Which included professors such as William Appleman Williams * - “one of the 20th century's most prominent revisionist historians of American diplomacy, who has been called 'the favorite historian of the Middle American New Left'" (William Appleman Williams, Wikipedia), George Mosse - “best known for his studies of Nazism” (George Mosse, Wikipedia) and Harvey Goldberg  - “an out gay activist, an anti-Viet Nam War activist and what he would call an "hors du parti" (out of the communist party) socialist” (Harvey Goldberg, Wikipedia).

In fact, honest, genuinely left professors are not allowed on American university campuses#, and the UW History Department simply was a breeding ground for more fake, secret political police-anointed “leftists.”

I did not know this reality when I started my graduate degree work in the Fall of 1960.

Studies on the Left...

“Studies on the Left was a journal of New Left radicalism in the United States published between 1959 and 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin, and later in New York City.

“Its authors, at first mostly graduate students at the University of Wisconsin, came to include most of the major figures of sixties radicalism, and not only from the United States. Writers for Studies on the Left included Martin J. Sklar, Murray Rothbard, Lee Baxandall, James Weinstein, Eleanor Hakim, Michael Lebowitz, Ronald Radosh, Gabriel Kolko, James B. Gilbert, Saul Landau, Lloyd Gardner, Eugene D. Genovese, Norman Fruchter, Staughton Lynd, Ronald Aronson, William Appleman Williams, Raymond Williams, and Tom Hayden.” (Studies on the Left, Wikipedia)

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I got to know a few of our “Studies on the Left” heroes, but they, like the Slate “lefties” at UC Berkeley (see post 10 of this series), were a decidedly insular bunch and needed no “outsiders” to fill out their ranks.  Strange.

Actually, not strange.  After all, they were not “left” at all, but US secret police stooges filling a niche dictated by the American Gestapo.

The big guru was Marty Sklar.  “Sklar was to the New Left what Chauncey Wright was to the Metaphysical Club at Harvard in the nineteenth century: a mercurial and electrifying thinker, and an inspiration to a coterie of friends and colleagues...”  (Vanishing Act, The Nation  Oct. 15, 2014).  Like so many phony pseudo-left “theoreticians,” Sklar became a professor, at Northern Illinois University and then at Bucknell University.

I first met James Gilbert on my trip to Cuba (see post 15 of this series). On the way back, Jim invited me to his family's luxurious suburban Chicago home and assured me that he was “prepared to start screaming and shooting people” for the sake of revolution in the US.  Radicalism?  Fakery! Gilbert also became a big shot in the thoroughly bourgeois academic world: “Founder and Head, University of Maryland, Center for Historical Studies; Chair, Department of History...” (CURRICULUM VITAE, James B. Gilbert)

I have discussed Saul Landau in my previous post.

America's universities are simply loaded with fake “revolutionaries!”

Ronald Radosh is an ultra-reactionary illuminating case, in that he “switched” and showed his real political colors later in life.  “Ronald Radosh (born 1937) is an American writer, professor, historian and former Marxist... Radosh was—like his parents—a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America until the Khrushchev thaw. Subsequently, he became a New Left and anti-Vietnam War activist.  Later, Radosh turned his attention to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. After studying declassified FBI documents and interviewing their friends and associates, Radosh concluded that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were indeed guilty of spying for the KGB...  Radosh is currently an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute** in Washington, D.C. and professor of history emeritus at the City University of New York, where he was a faculty member at both Queensborough Community College and the Graduate Faculty in History at CUNY.”

I wrote about Tom Hayden in our book Silent Terror: “One of the prominent 'radicals' of the 1960s and a founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was Tom Hayden.  Hayden recently admitted that during the Vietnam War, he worked with US intelligence during his trips to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam as a well-publicized 'peace activist' (The Nation, Nov. 26, 1986).  More recently, the reactionary politics of Hayden and his actress wife Jane Fonda were evident when they fervently supported Israeli aggression in Lebanon. Still posing as a liberal, Hayden criticized the Reagan Administration for not being sufficiently anti-communist.  According to Hayden, 'anyone drinking Russian vodka... is washing down the blood of innocent people.'”  ("Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - http://arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com, p. 64)  

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Studies on the Left has long since kicked the bucket. So why discuss it?  To illustrate another example of how the  the United States Gestapo -  the vicious, murderous and all-intrusive US lie, spy, criminal, provocation, subversion and regime change, terror, drug-runnning, torture, war and mass murder apparatus – operates.  And how the US Gestapo's stooges are well rewarded.

The CIA FBI and their colossally evil cohorts are still around.  Very much so.  And they have unbreakable entanglements and implacable dictat with the universities of California, Wisconsin*** etc. etc.

And not only with the “institutions of higher learning.”

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*  Williams was a graduate of the US Naval Academy and served as an American imperialist naval officer.

#  One can imagine very rare exceptions, where a genuine revolutionary is given a faculty position to somehow divert him/her from political activity or for some other psychological warfare ploy.

** “The Hudson Institute is a politically conservative, American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1961 by futurist, military strategist, and systems theorist Herman Kahn and his colleagues at the RAND Corporation.” (Hudson Institute, Wikipedia)

*** Notwithstanding the cynical “credo” of UW: “WHATEVER MAY BE THE LIMITATIONS WHICH TRAMMEL INQUIRY ELSEWHERE, WE BELIEVE THAT THE GREAT STATE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SHOULD EVER ENCOURAGE THAT CONTINUAL AND FEARLESS SIFTING AND WINNOWING BY WHICH ALONE THE TRUTH CAN BE FOUND.”

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Перед нами сейчас -  коварный и опасный мошенник, расист, лжец и фашист Дональд Трамп, порочный Конгресс, нацистские ФБР - ЦРУ,  кровавые милитаристы США и НАТО >>> а также и лживые, вредоносные американские СМ»И».

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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - http://arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com

Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости.  Властители США воруют пенсию!!  

ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, преда��шим страну предшественником КГБ, мерзко выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» -  мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев.   А это далеко не всё...

Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США

BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕНО!!

ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в Вконтакте!

… и в Макспарке!

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Um, Disneyland's Opening Day In 1955 Sounds Like It Was A Dystopian Hell

I GET MY MONEY FOR NOTHING AND MY CHICKS FOR FREE!

It was basically the Fyre Festival of 1955.

Disney Parks have a reputation for presenting themselves as perfect, flawless places where nothing could ever possibly go wrong.

Some less-than-amazing stuff has allegedly happened inside the parks, but by many accounts, Disney works realllll hard to make it all feel truly magical.

Dreamworks

But it turns out, Disneyland was decidedly not the happiest place on earth on its opening day, July 17, 1955*. In fact, it sounds like the kind of hellscape that would have made me angrier than if I got tricked into going on the Mad Tea Party.

I'm not exaggerating! An observer at the time called it a "fiasco the like of which I cannot recall in 30 years of show life."

*Technically, July 17 was the press preview and the 18th was opening day, but Disney generally recognizes the 17th as the official opening day.

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So what was so bad about it? For starters, the park just wasn't finished, plain and simple.

Only about 3/4 of the park was complete on the big day! Disneyland was the first-ever Disney park (Disney World didn't open until 1971), and its construction workers were apparently concerned that nothing would be ready by the July opening date and pushed for an extension, but the construction supervisor refused. Because of that, park visitors encountered a walkway in Tomorrowland that trailed off into a field of dirt, unfinished rides and attractions, and more.

Of course, the estimated 70 million people watching the live broadcast of opening day at home — hosted by none other than Ronald Reagan — had no idea any of this shit was going down.

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That also means that basically no rides were open.

Jonathan Carr, who was 9 years old when he attended opening day, told Cracked that his family, among many others, weren't told in advance that many rides wouldn't be open until the next month. "All day, people stood in lines for rides that were closed." And to think you probably once threw a fit because Peter Pan's Adventure had a 45-minute wait.

"You couldn't do anything. Anywhere you could sit was taken, rides had long lines, stores were filled," he added. "To me, it was like a mall parking lot during Christmas. Every space is filled, and there are endless cars either idling and waiting or circling around and hoping. That was Disneyland on the first day, but with nobody pulling out."

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Oh and, thanks to counterfeit tickets, double the number of invited guests showed up to the still-under-construction park.

You know the feeling when Disneyland feels so crowded that you wish you could hide inside the top of Space Mountain forever? Imagine that, times two. It was estimated that the park, once complete, would be able to hold 15,000 people, so Disney ordered that many invitations to be printed. Much to park workers' shock, "30,000 showed up because of counterfeit tickets and people who rushed the gate and all kinds of stuff," employee Marty Sklar later recalled. Carr said, "Three times in my journal, I wrote down something like, 'A Disney employee said they were not expecting this many people.'"

All those extra attendees created a seven-mile backup on the Santa Ana Freeway, and once they got to Anaheim, people were so anxious to get in that one (honestly genius) guy charged people $5 a head to climb up a ladder he propped up outside. Now that's what I call imagineering.

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When people did make it inside the gates, they were greeted by these nightmare-inducing Mickey and Minnie Mouse costumes.

Good luck sleeping tonight!

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The asphalt on Main Street, which had been poured that morning, was still so wet that women's heels sank into it and got stuck.

Pulling them out of the asphalt must've required Sword in the Stone-like strength. "It was spongy, but I thought it was supposed to be like that in case children fell down," Carr said. "I wrote down, 'There are black shoe marks all over from the ground. I think this is supposed to make it look like guests making their mark on the park.'" If only the truth was that fun and clever.

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The temperature got up to 100 degrees, which was made worse because there were no water fountains anywhere.

There was basically no way to cool off, especially because in 1955, air conditioning wasn't nearly as powerful as it is today. "There was an area where you were supposed to stand and get cooled off by air coming from a few rides," Carr said. "A Disneyland employee told this to us. But they were telling everyone. A nice breeze should have been coming, but so many people were there that there wasn't a temperature change." I'm literally sweating just reading this.

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On top of that, concession stands ran out of food and drinks by lunchtime.

In case huge crowds, broiling temperatures, no water, and people in creepy costumes weren't enough of a turnoff, Disneyland's opening day made everyone hangry, too. Carr remembers that "everybody got meaner as the day went on," and even saw two boys drink sugar syrup when the candy store ran out of sweets. "They ran out of candy, and parents could only buy that for their children. You didn't drink syrup or ingredients like that at that time unless something was wrong. It would be like drinking maple syrup from the bottle. But I saw it happen."

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People were peeing everywhere, and Disney was shockingly chill about it.

"I've told people I was there on the day it opened, and when they asked what it was like, the first thing I bring up is all the children peeing," Carr said. "My father wrote down, 'Main Street. The restroom lines are so long that there is another line for the new restroom parkgoers have created behind the official restroom.'"

The bathroom issue still wasn't solved the next day, so Disney was basically like, Whatever, paint the ground with your urine if you please. The open pee policy stood for a long time because it was easier than building new bathrooms. Today, though, dropping trou mid-Frontierland probably wouldn't be so warmly accepted.

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And to top it all off, Sleeping Beauty Castle caught on fire.

Have you ever peered up at the centerpiece of Disneyland and thought, That's nice, but it could really use some flames? Well, you're in luck! Thanks to a gas leak, Sleeping Beauty's Castle nearly went up completely in flames. Walt Disney would probably be horrified to know that a young park attendee like Carr saw the blaze firsthand. "I thought it was the show, but it was real," he said. "We were walking by when a fire peeked out of the window. It wasn't very big, but it was enough. A few employees said to go around. It was real."

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So there you have it! The next time you're moaning about the heat and humidity while waiting to ride the Matterhorn among one trillion choir groups on spring break, remember how good you have it.

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Um, Disneyland's Opening Day In 1955 Sounds Like It Was A Dystopian Hell

It was basically the Fyre Festival of 1955.

Disney Parks have a reputation for presenting themselves as perfect, flawless places where nothing could ever possibly go wrong.

Some less-than-amazing stuff has allegedly happened inside the parks, but by many accounts, Disney works realllll hard to make it all feel truly magical.

Dreamworks

But it turns out, Disneyland was decidedly not the happiest place on earth on its opening day, July 17, 1955*. In fact, it sounds like the kind of hellscape that would have made me angrier than if I got tricked into going on the Mad Tea Party.

I'm not exaggerating! An observer at the time called it a "fiasco the like of which I cannot recall in 30 years of show life."

*Technically, July 17 was the press preview and the 18th was opening day, but Disney generally recognizes the 17th as the official opening day.

Getty Images

So what was so bad about it? For starters, the park just wasn't finished, plain and simple.

Only about 3/4 of the park was complete on the big day! Disneyland was the first-ever Disney park (Disney World didn't open until 1971), and its construction workers were apparently concerned that nothing would be ready by the July opening date and pushed for an extension, but the construction supervisor refused. Because of that, park visitors encountered a walkway in Tomorrowland that trailed off into a field of dirt, unfinished rides and attractions, and more.

Of course, the estimated 70 million people watching the live broadcast of opening day at home — hosted by none other than Ronald Reagan — had no idea any of this shit was going down.

Getty Images

That also means that basically no rides were open.

Jonathan Carr, who was 9 years old when he attended opening day, told Cracked that his family, among many others, weren't told in advance that many rides wouldn't be open until the next month. "All day, people stood in lines for rides that were closed." And to think you probably once threw a fit because Peter Pan's Adventure had a 45-minute wait.

"You couldn't do anything. Anywhere you could sit was taken, rides had long lines, stores were filled," he added. "To me, it was like a mall parking lot during Christmas. Every space is filled, and there are endless cars either idling and waiting or circling around and hoping. That was Disneyland on the first day, but with nobody pulling out."

Getty Images

Oh and, thanks to counterfeit tickets, double the number of invited guests showed up to the still-under-construction park.

You know the feeling when Disneyland feels so crowded that you wish you could hide inside the top of Space Mountain forever? Imagine that, times two. It was estimated that the park, once complete, would be able to hold 15,000 people, so Disney ordered that many invitations to be printed. Much to park workers' shock, "30,000 showed up because of counterfeit tickets and people who rushed the gate and all kinds of stuff," employee Marty Sklar later recalled. Carr said, "Three times in my journal, I wrote down something like, 'A Disney employee said they were not expecting this many people.'"

All those extra attendees created a seven-mile backup on the Santa Ana Freeway, and once they got to Anaheim, people were so anxious to get in that one (honestly genius) guy charged people $5 a head to climb up a ladder he propped up outside. Now that's what I call imagineering.

Getty Images

When people did make it inside the gates, they were greeted by these nightmare-inducing Mickey and Minnie Mouse costumes.

Good luck sleeping tonight!

Getty Images

The asphalt on Main Street, which had been poured that morning, was still so wet that women's heels sank into it and got stuck.

Pulling them out of the asphalt must've required Sword in the Stone-like strength. "It was spongy, but I thought it was supposed to be like that in case children fell down," Carr said. "I wrote down, 'There are black shoe marks all over from the ground. I think this is supposed to make it look like guests making their mark on the park.'" If only the truth was that fun and clever.

Getty Images

The temperature got up to 100 degrees, which was made worse because there were no water fountains anywhere.

There was basically no way to cool off, especially because in 1955, air conditioning wasn't nearly as powerful as it is today. "There was an area where you were supposed to stand and get cooled off by air coming from a few rides," Carr said. "A Disneyland employee told this to us. But they were telling everyone. A nice breeze should have been coming, but so many people were there that there wasn't a temperature change." I'm literally sweating just reading this.

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On top of that, concession stands ran out of food and drinks by lunchtime.

In case huge crowds, broiling temperatures, no water, and people in creepy costumes weren't enough of a turnoff, Disneyland's opening day made everyone hangry, too. Carr remembers that "everybody got meaner as the day went on," and even saw two boys drink sugar syrup when the candy store ran out of sweets. "They ran out of candy, and parents could only buy that for their children. You didn't drink syrup or ingredients like that at that time unless something was wrong. It would be like drinking maple syrup from the bottle. But I saw it happen."

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People were peeing everywhere, and Disney was shockingly chill about it.

"I've told people I was there on the day it opened, and when they asked what it was like, the first thing I bring up is all the children peeing," Carr said. "My father wrote down, 'Main Street. The restroom lines are so long that there is another line for the new restroom parkgoers have created behind the official restroom.'"

The bathroom issue still wasn't solved the next day, so Disney was basically like, Whatever, paint the ground with your urine if you please. The open pee policy stood for a long time because it was easier than building new bathrooms. Today, though, dropping trou mid-Frontierland probably wouldn't be so warmly accepted.

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And to top it all off, Sleeping Beauty Castle caught on fire.

Have you ever peered up at the centerpiece of Disneyland and thought, That's nice, but it could really use some flames? Well, you're in luck! Thanks to a gas leak, Sleeping Beauty's Castle nearly went up completely in flames. Walt Disney would probably be horrified to know that a young park attendee like Carr saw the blaze firsthand. "I thought it was the show, but it was real," he said. "We were walking by when a fire peeked out of the window. It wasn't very big, but it was enough. A few employees said to go around. It was real."

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So there you have it! The next time you're moaning about the heat and humidity while waiting to ride the Matterhorn among one trillion choir groups on spring break, remember how good you have it.

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cómico legendario Don Rickles, una máquina insulto de tiro rápido que durante seis décadas obtuvo bastante la vida burlándose de la gente de todos los credos y colores, y todos, desde los pobres patanes a Frank Sinatra, ha muerto. Tenía 90 años.

Rickles murió el jueves en su casa de Los Ángeles de la insuficiencia renal, el publicista Paul Schrifin anunció.

Sarcasmo apodado “Mr. calor,” Rickles tenía desprecio simulacro de estrellas, las principales figuras públicas y todos los que pagaron para verlo, ajustar las audiencias de televisión y las multitudes particulares en Las Vegas con su marca mordaz comedia de derribo. Un buen chico y dedicado esposo fuera de los escenarios, el intérprete Rickles cruelmente colocó en todo el mundo se encontró – y les encantó.

Después de trabajar en una relativa oscuridad durante años como un comediante más convencional de stand-up, Rickles, sin saberlo, descubrió sus mayores risas llegaron cuando se volvió la tabla en sus provocadores. Su carrera luego se disparó después de que insultó al irascible Sinatra, que normalmente no lleva amablemente a dicho tratamiento.

Cuando el cantante súper estrella y actor entraron en un club de Hollywood en 1957, donde Rickles estaba llevando a cabo, el comediante recibió el “Presidente de la Junta” de la etapa: “Siéntase como en casa Frank golpear a alguien.”. Sinatra rugió – de la risa.

Con el respaldo de Sinatra, Rickles comenzó su asalto comedia sobre personajes famosos y no tan famosos – Judios, los asiáticos, los afroamericanos, los irlandeses, los puertorriqueños, las mujeres cabeza roja, chicos cortos, lo que sea – con enormes resultados. Se refirió a la gente estúpida como “discos de hockey”, y en 1959, firmó por su primera aparición en Las Vegas, en el salón del Hotel Sahara.

En 1985, cuando se le preguntó Sinatra para realizar en segunda bola inaugural de Ronald Reagan, insistió en que Rickles lo acompañara para una rutina de comedia. Rickles, naturalmente, no perdonó al presidente ( “Voy demasiado rápido para ti, Ronnie?”, Se preguntó) y consideró que el rendimiento entre los más destacados de su carrera.© Rex / ShutterstockDon Rickles

Rickles todavía estaba en su apogeo en junio de 2012, cuando, durante el homenaje del American Film Institute a la actriz Shirley MacLaine, bromeó que “no debe burlarse de los negros. El presidente Obama es un amigo personal mío. Fue a la casa ayer, pero la fregona se rompió “.

Rickles perfeccionó su reputación en numerosas apariciones en The Dean Martin Celebrity asados ​​que se ejecutaban en la NBC desde mediados de la década de 1970 a mediados de los años 80. Los especiales siempre un lugar perfecto para dar rienda suelta a su Rickles marca cáustica del humor en tales dignatarios visitantes como Sinatra, Reagan, Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Kirk Douglas, Sammy Davis Jr. y el Sr. T.

Johnny Carson proporcionó Rickles una etapa nocturna, haciéndole uno de los clientes más frecuentes de The Tonight Show. Por un momento memorable en 1968, Rickles cozied a un Carson medio desnudo durante un boceto con dos masajistas femeninos japoneses y dijo: “Estoy tan solo, Johnny!” Carson lo echó en una bañera. Más recientemente, él era un invitado habitual en Late Show, en el que el huésped tratado CBS Rickles como reyes.

Rickles jugó intermitentemente en las películas, destacado por violentos de Kelly (1970), donde co-protagonizó junto a Clint Eastwood como sargento. Crapgame, un negro-vendedor del Ejército que no tenía reparo en cortar acuerdos favorables con los nazis.

También actuó al lado de conejito playa Annette Funicello en películas como Pajama Party (1964) y Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), apareció como un limo-ball Vegas en el Casino de Martin Scorsese (1975) y expresó el Sr. Cara de Papa de mal humor en el juguete películas de la historia.

Donald Jay Rickles nació en el barrio neoyorquino de Queens, el 8 de mayo de 1926. Después de la secundaria, sirvió en la Marina de los Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y luego estudió actuación y se graduó de la Academia Americana de Arte Dramático.

A los 32 años, Rickles consiguió un pequeño papel en el drama de submarinos de Robert Wise Run silencioso, Deep Run (1958), protagonizada por Clark Gable. Dos años más tarde, fue elegido para la carrera de ratas con Tony Curtis y Debbie Reynolds.

No es de extrañar, Rickles encontró que no había muchos papeles principales de un 5 pies y 6 hombre calvo barrigón. Así, trabajó hasta un acto discoteca. Después de su encuentro Sinatra, perfeccionó su mordida y aterrizaría conciertos en todos los hoteles de Las Vegas: La Costa, la pepita de oro, el Desert Inn y el Sahara.

Rickles vendría en el escenario acompañada por la señal de un sutil que alguien estaba a punto de ser corneado metafórica vieja canción de toros español “La Virgen de la Macarena”.

Ras con sus éxitos de casino, Rickles cortó dos más vendidos álbumes de comedia en los años 60: Hola, Chupete! y Don Rickles Habla.

El éxito como estrella de su propia serie de televisión se le escapaba. Él jugó Naval oficial pequeño Otto Sharkey en la NBC CPO Sharkey, que se desarrolló entre 1976-78, y un vendedor de coches usados ​​y padre de Richard Lewis en Daddy Dearest, rápidamente cancelada por Fox en 1993. Tenía dos series titulado The Don Rickles Mostrar; cada uno funcionó un puñado de episodios. Por una temporada en los años 80, fue anfitrión de ABC líos, pitidos y equivocaciones con el cantante Steve Lawrence.

apariciones de televisión Rickles’ incluyen episodios de la zona crepuscular, Vagón de tren, la ley de Burke, el Dick Van Dyke Show, The Beverly Hillbillies, Gomer Pyle, USMC, Mi bella genio, I Spy, Get Smart (junto a su amigo, Don Adams ), Rowan & Martin de Laugh-In, Sanford and Son, The Bernie Mac Show y Hot in Cleveland.

En 1965, se casó con Barbara Sklar Rickles, que le sobrevive. La pareja, que a menudo vacationed con cómica inexpresivo Bob Newhart y su esposa, Virginia, tuvo dos hijos, Mindy y Larry. Su hijo, que produjo el documental de HBO Sr. Calor: El Proyecto Don Rickles, murió en diciembre de 2011 a los 41 años .

La entrada Cómico legendario Don Rickles muere a los 90 aparece primero en Noticias Diarias de Venezuela.

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Donny Osmond

Starting Again

by Ronald Sklar

"Usually, when you take a big show on the road, you kind of scale it down, to save a little money and make a little money," says legendary performer Donny Osmond. "Well, I've done the opposite. I've embellished it. I'm taking the entire production from Las Vegas and I'm bringing it to the Beacon."

Donny's award-winning Las Vegas production, Direct From Vegas, will make a stop at New York's famous Beacon Theater on Friday, July 12, 2024, with, as Donny promises, all the stops pulled, and the kitchen sink included. 

Will a New York audience set their dark cynicism aside and brightly embrace a feel-good stage show without any sense of irony? 

"They can detect anything that is contrived," Donny says of Big Apple crowds.

There is nothing inauthentic about this live production of his 65-year journey through show business. It's a celebration of his time-tested reinventions, his greatest hits, and his countless memories. He'll also take requests. 

"I put all 65 of my albums on the big screen behind me," Donny says of the interactive request segment. "The audience for about 20 minutes dictates what the show is going to be. Whatever happens live during that segment, you just roll with it. I think New York audiences would appreciate that, because improv is a very difficult thing to do correctly."

Sounds fun, but sixty-five albums may make for a senior moment here and there, when audience members start suggesting deep cuts. 

"A few weeks ago, somebody asked for some obscure album track" Donny says, "and I'll be honest with you, I could not remember the song. I didn't try to hide from it. I actually said, I have no idea about that song. It's very real and you have to take chances and I think that's what New York audiences would want."

Face it, there is a lot of material to retain ("It took me sixty years to put this show together," Donny says). The show coincides with his work anniversary, which coincides with a new album with the fitting title, Start Again. 

"I've utilized that saying [start again] so many times in my career," he says. "It's one thing to get a career in show business, but it's a whole other thing to maintain a career. You're reinventing yourself, especially if you start at such a young age. There were so many victims who could not get out of that pigeonhole. I've had to reinvent myself maybe seven or eight times in my life. It's been a challenge to bring the audience along with me and to re-educate them as to what I am doing now."

The audience is diverse, from the Baby Boomer super fans who know all of his sixty-five albums by heart (Donny calls them the Puppy Lovers, after his 1972 megahit "Puppy Love") to today's modern young generation, who may only know his as Captain Shang from Mulan or from his appearance on The Masked Singer. Then, of course, there are the fans of The Donny & Marie Show, where he and his sister delivered a perfect hour of show biz every week for four years. 

"The Donny & Marie Show was just silliness," he says, "but close your eyes and listen to the music – we were doing about an album a week."

What kept him grounded through all the ups and downs? 

"I've lived a life that a lot of people just dream about," he says, "and despite the potholes and the landmines, I had a strong family foundation. My faith, my marriage. People poke fun at it, but, boy, that's what saved me."

Also, we learn the secret of an American legend who had discovered the proper way to go through an extraordinary life: be yourself. 

Of course, Elvis showed him the way. 

"When I first met Elvis, he impressed me so much because I saw him on stage – a monster," Donny says of The King's mastery of the art. "The next night, I'm preparing for a show with my brothers, and [Elvis] walks into the dressing room and he introduces himself ("Hi, I'm Elvis."). I'm fourteen years old, and I remember what an effect that had on me, that I saw a different side to the King of Rock and Roll.” (He was also a little bit country). 

However, behind that drink-milk smile, there has to be some dark moods and total bummers. Right? 

"Everybody has a dark side, and I'm no different," he admits. "I try to be as optimistic as I possibly can. I give one-hundred-and-ten percent on stage, and I expect everyone to do the same. I hand select these people and they get on stage, and they work their butts off. I guess the dark side to me is that I'm very impatient."

Then was it almost all upside? Was it all bubblegum and hair spray? 

"I lost all my money in the early '80s," he says. "I had to start over. I said to myself, 'I'm going to build this career so that I can be doing it for as long as I want.' You've got to be smart when you [start a career in show business]. You can't just say, 'I'm going to sing a bunch of songs.' You have to figure out what is going on in the marketplace."

He even asked fellow legend Michael Jackson for career advice. The King of Pop gave him some tough love. 

Jacko said, "Your name is poison. You've got to change your name." 

The radio did that advice one better: his 1989 megahit, "Soldier of Love," surprised everybody, even (and especially) DJs. WPLJ in New York played the record without announcing who was singing it. The song shot to #1. Donny didn't change his name; he just didn't give it. And this was just when he was getting ready to quit the business. 

"'Soldier of Love' was an accident," he says. "Nobody would touch me. I couldn't get a record deal. I met Peter Gabriel at a UNICEF charity concert in New York. I told him my sob story, and he said, 'not that I bought any of your records, but I think you have a great voice, and I would like you to come over to the UK and I would like to executive produce your next album.' It became a 'mystery artist' thing on the radio."

The good news: Donny had a #1-requested record in the #1 market in the country. The bad news: nobody knew it was him. The mystery didn't last long, even though it was during the tail end of the pre-Internet age. The nation was shocked to learn of the mystery singer, but it didn't freak out; it just chilled along with the song. That break led to more, and Donny was back on top before long, his resume doubling and tripling its content and power.

The intensity could be seen and verified for decades, since he first sang with his brothers (at age five, in the early '60s) on The Andy Williams Show. That was fresh off a barbershop-quartet gig on a Disneyland special. Once puberty hit, Donny was an official teen idol, with thousands (truly, thousands) of fan photos published in teen and movie magazines to go along with his gold records. 

"When you grow up in show business, you really don't know anything else," he says. "That is your life. To have a photographer take pictures of me or to see my pictures in a magazine, that was just my norm. I didn't think much of it."

Continuing his legacy of performing live before adoring fans, Donny subscribes to the work ethic that if you bring it, they will come. 

"I don't phone anything in," he says. 

Donny has partnered with City of Hope so that $1 from each ticket sale will go directly to City of Hope to support their fight against cancer, diabetes, and other serious illnesses. Find out more about City of Hope here. 

Find out more about Donny here. 

Copyright ©2024 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: May 6, 2024.

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Burton Cummings

These Eyes Have Seen a Lot of Life

by Ronald Sklar

“I realized very early that records are forever,” says forever-certified record-maker Burton Cummings. As the frontman (lead vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar) for The Guess Who, he created more than thirteen knockout punches of Top 10 singles between 1969 and 1975.  Included in this soundtrack of your life are “American Woman,” “These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “Undun,” “No Sugar Tonight,” “Star Baby,” and “Clap for the Wolfman.” 

“When you have hit records, you often don’t realize the trickle-down effect they have on people,” he said. “I had somebody tell me on social media that they used one of my songs at a funeral. It’s always very humbling to me and I’m always just a little bit surprised. That’s the thing about hit records: they’re forever.”

Close competition on those record charts included work from other forever-hitmakers like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Three Dog Night. Not too shabby for a group from Canada; by 1970, The Guess Who sold more records than the entire Canadian music industry combined. This is despite the dopey name, which was dreamed up by a record executive who thought he was being clever. The name “The Guess Who” would generate curiosity, he figured. Maybe people would think they're from England, like The Who. Turns out it was less about the gimmicky name and more about the music, which was original and timeless. 

“The odds of making it from Winnipeg were incredible back then,” Burton says. “That was something very new for Canada.”

Even more incredible was Burton achieving that world record while still a teenager. 

“We all have that same childhood dream,” Burton says about first hearing his songs played on the radio. “The dream had come true. For me, it was almost unreal, because I was not even twenty-one yet when we had our first gold record. It was all like Cinderella time.”

He remembers exactly where he was when he heard his first hit, “These Eyes,” played on the radio. He was in the backseat of a limo, crossing the 59th Street Bridge into Manhattan, going to some promotional event. The song was broadcast while he gazed at the twinkling skyline of the metropolis. 

"I'm this guy from Winnipeg looking at all these skyscrapers and suddenly hear the DJ say, 'There's that great song by Canadian rockers The Guess Who,’” he says. "It was a tremendous moment for a kid from the prairies listening to my first gold record. I thought, 'Am I dreaming this?'”

Burton gives equal credit to his former creative partner, Randy Bachman, who later formed the ‘70s band Bachman Turner Overdrive (with their uber-classic hit, “Taking Care of Business”). 

“It was easy to write with Randy and I think he found that with me too,” Burton says, “because we would come to each other with half songs. Between the two of us we would finish them. I think we complemented each other because I am a keyboard player, and he is a guitarist. There was that yin and yang right there.”

Burton is still writing and performing; in fact, he’s launching a 60th anniversary tour this year (“I have over two hours of hits to do,” he says), along with a new album on the way.

“I’m always writing,” he says. “I’ve got tons and tons of songs that no one has ever heard.”

That may change as new generations stream and download The Guess Who’s can’t-miss catalog, filled with songs that were made in the ‘60s and ‘70s but don’t necessarily sound like they were. See for your damn self: play it for a young'n and watch their reaction.

“I heard ‘No Time’ the other day and it didn’t sound fifty years old to me,” he says. “It didn’t sound that ancient and antiquated.”

That’s because “No Time” kicked the ass of the unforgiving test of time, along with the other tracks. Yet despite the rare achievement, he’s sensitive about being pigeonholed as a walking time capsule. 

“I’m at an age now where I don’t want to put something out that will sound soggy in a few years,” he says. 

Arguably, The Guess Who’s most recognizable song is one that Burton thinks maybe had fallen just shy of the bull’s eye.

“I was never really one-hundred-percent happy with ‘American Woman,’” he says. “I was very impressed with Robert Plant, and I wanted the song to be a screamer. I never thought I quite nailed it.”

He also feels the song is somewhat misunderstood. 

“It was never meant to be political,” he says. “It was an accident that happened at the right time. That song just played into that point in history. What was in my head was something more like: Canadian woman, I prefer you. I came up with the words on stage, trying to make everything rhyme. I was just trying to make it all rhyme. Randy’s riff was easy to sing over.”

That’s how it goes when you’re creating songs that endure – they come to you. And after the hits stop coming, all you can do is keep on keeping on: 

“I’m still writing music and I have a great band,” he says. “I’m still doing what I’ve always done. I’m just getting a little older.”

Find out more about Burton Cummings here. 

Copyright ©2024 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: April 16, 2024.

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Dermot Mulroney

Look Out, Old Mack is Back

By Ronald Sklar

Once again, busy actor Dermot Mulroney is stepping – or in this case, singing and dancing – outside his comfort zone.

“I’m always comfortable when I’m having fun,” he insists, however.

This time, the fun presents itself not in another movie (there are lots of them. Check his IMDb), but as an “in concert” production of the Broadway musical Mack & Mabel (three nights only – February 16-18, 2024 – at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theater).

The fully staged, choreographed event is an inaugural production of the All Roads Theater Company; it’s based on the “forgotten” 1970s musical about Tinseltown’s earliest era. Expect Keystone Kops and flappers.

“It’s a romance and a beautiful story,” Dermot says. “It’s a major event in the musical theater world happening for a very short run.”

Dermot stars as silent-film director Mack Sennett and introduces Jenna Rosen as Mabel Normand, who became one of early Hollywood’s biggest stars.

A revival like this is no small thing for both the theater culture and for the actor himself.

“There are thirty people in this company,” Dermot says. “I’m learning so much from all of them.”

That the original show somehow slipped under the cultural radar is a baffling crime – the 1974 production starred no less than Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters; David Merrick produced it, with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman (Hello, Dolly, Mame). The show received eight Tony nominations and won none. Herman was not nominated. It ran for just 66 performances.

Yet somehow, over the decades, the original cast album grew an obsessive fan base, and there is new interest in the story.

Dermot says, “You learn now, in the computer age, that anything and everything has its following. The people who know Mack & Mabel are crazy about it.”

What else is crazy – so crazy that it makes perfect sense – is the shared hope for the show to make its way back to Broadway, fifty years later.

“There is every reason for that to happen,” Dermot says.

So why would a man who is known for so many movies suddenly take to the boards?

“I’ve decided to do Mack & Mabel for two reasons,” Dermot says. “One: I’ve never done this before, singing in a full musical. And two: because I’ve always wanted to do it. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity when it came to me out of the blue.”

Leading man roles sure enough attach themselves to Dermot. He’s been at it for about forty years, starring in everything from My Best Friend’s Wedding to The Wedding Date and Young Guns. On TV, he played Rachel’s boss on Friends, as well as prominent roles in New Girl and Shameless. He is also an accomplished cellist and has played professionally on various on-screen projects as well as in live musical performances.

Mack & Mabel, however, is a whole different animal.

“It’s hugely challenging for me,” Dermot admits. “It’s a world I’ve never inhabited. The two times I’ve been in musicals were in my senior year at Northwestern University, a thousand-seat theater. I sang in an operetta, as Ko-Ko The Executioner in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado.”

There is also the one that got away: the time that Francis Ford Coppola chose Dermot to play The Big Kahuna in his ambitious Gidget stage musical (alas, it never got past the workshop phase). And he has indeed sung in public before: on the big screen, to Julia Roberts, on a boat (see it here).

Mack & Mabel, though, is the musical Big Time. It fits nicely with his continuing busy career, including a key supporting role in the current hit romcom Anyone But You, as well as his turn as Detective Bailey in Scream 6.

“I’ve just been incredibly blessed,” he says of his journey. “I’ll admit, that’s what I thought the assignment was when I first became an actor, to be a man of a thousand faces.”

His face can now also be regularly seen on social media, as he has pumped up his posts on Instagram. Most of them push his current projects, but he also shares the kick he gets out the universally common misspelling of his name (think “Dermont” on a Starbucks cup).

“That is so fun for me because it’s happened to me my whole life,” he says.

Still, he enters the world of social media carefully, and treads lightly, as online life can sometimes do bad things to our offline attention spans.

The solution?

“We have to re-expand our attention spans,” he says. “That’s why the four-five-six-month learning process on Mack & Mabel has been incredibly good for my brain.”

Find out more about Mack & Mabel here.

Copyright ©2024 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: February 12, 2024.

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Tom Berenger

Serving a Black Warrant

by Ronald Sklar

What do Tom Berenger and William Shakespeare have in common? They both insist that the play's the thing.

Tom says, "the whole play is the most important thing, and your part is secondary to that. You should be supportive of the playwright."

This rule of Tom's thumb goes back to his high school days in Park Forest, Illinois. Tom was required to appear in Blood Wedding, the famous Federico Garcia Lorca play. It was mandatory for all advanced Spanish students (yep, Tom is fluent, and this was an AP class).

He said, "I went up to the teacher and said, 'I can't do this. I'm not an actor."

Of course, that statement had to later be amended, big time. After studying journalism and history at the University of Missouri, the acting bug knew it was Tom it needed to bite.

He switched to drama ("Who would've thunk it," Tom says). That led to commercials ("Ned, put your money where your mouth is. Girls notice whiter teeth and fresh breath!"), soap operas ("Mom, you had to keep going on about her being a nun!") and then, film.

He was one of Diane Keaton's unstable pickups in Looking for Mr. Goodbar but found lasting fame in a series of forever iconic movies, including The Big Chill, Eddie and the Cruisers and Major League. In 1986, Platoon won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Tom, as the damaged Staff Sergeant Barnes, was nominated for Best Supporting Actor. He won a Golden Globe award for the same role.

On TV, he earned an Emmy award for his part in The Hatfields and the McCoys (playing uncle to Kevin Costner's character) and transformed into Teddy Roosevelt in The Rough Riders (watch him channel it! Damn!).

His fan base expanded and solidified with the Sniper films, and now we have Black Warrant to satisfy our action jones in these trying times.

In it, Tom plays a semi-retired special ops assassin who tries to stop a cyber terrorist organization from attacking the power grid. Plot twists? Shit being real out in the streets? A hero who is gonna hero? Exactly this.

"I don't know how they write action movies," Tom says of the largely underrated genre. "That's still kind of a mystery to me."

But here, the mystery's the thing. In other words, if the world ever needed another Berenger action flick, it's right this very minute now. The universe owes us.

Black Warrant now available on Digital and On Demand.

Copyright ©2022 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: December 20, 2022.

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