Me Alert! I’m Back On Theater Talk!

The sight of my face popping up on the ultra serious Channel 13 is so potentially jarring that it absolutely commands you to watch it! And tonight at 1 A.M., you can see that very punim spewing all sorts of opinions about the coming Broadway season on Theater Talk, the long-running show cohosted by the lilting Susan Haskins and the feared Michael Riedel. In this “ultimate season preview” edition, entertainment reporters Jesse Green and Patrick Pacheco (below, left) offer in-depth evaluations of the theater season based on knowledge and insight, while I interject one-liners, self-aggrandizing statements, and crude remarks about Broadway’s coming year of pubescent chic. It’s really a marvel! They might even create a special Tony for me for Most Distracting Person on Theater Talk!

UPDATE. The evidence!:

This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on October 10, 2008

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“Oh yeah, he fed her to the homeless,” says Hank, who lives on East 5th Street. “A few days after it happened, before it hit the papers, while the rumors started spreading around the Village, the homeless in the park were going, ‘Yeah, Dan did give us soup yesterday.’ They were goofing on it but they were pretty much grossed out.”

by Max Cantor
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Though it seemed at first only a fanatical cult committed to a bizarre version of Islam, Elijah Muhammad’s homemade Nation was far from an aberration.

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Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers

“Dear reader, we begin a collaboration, which may go on for three weeks, three months, or, Lord forbid, for three-and-thirty years. I have only one prayer — that I weary of you before you tire of me”

by Norman Mailer
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Bob Woodward, Inside Dope

“Woodward is hardly trying to cripple a presidency. (He's already done that, right?) But like his fellow permanent Washingtonians, he thinks it only fitting to put Clinton in his place.”

by Tom Carson
MUSIC ARCHIVES

Sinatra at 80: Practice Makes Posterity

“Nobody who played jazz was considered able to walk in and do a studio call. They were convinced you couldn't read, or you wouldn't show up, or you'd fall down drunk”

by Milt Bernhart as told to Gary Giddins
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Marvin Gaye: The Power and the Glory

“Drugs became his escape hatch and his prison. As his In Our Lifetime so brazenly articulates, the devil was after his soul and damned if he wasn’t determined to win”

by Nelson George

Equality

Me Alert! I’m Back On Theater Talk!

by Michael Musto

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