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...show each night sang, "After the Loving" and "I Did it My Way." He belted out those songs, imitating Dean Martin, every single night to rousing applause and a few wet eyes. Bobby could do not wrong--spill steaming coffee down Bertha's back, or worse, call the same bingo number twice in a row--the man in the wallpaper tuxedo was the perfect son who never left mother and sang to her every single night of her life...
...hear about men going to Harvard right?" he asked the crowd in his booming voice on Bingo Night. "But you don't often hear of a young lady going there, right? But we happen to have one with us in the audience tonight." Gasps. "Yes, yes we do." Applause. "Why don't you come on up here on the stage, little lady." He handed me the microphone and said, "Why don't you tell the audience what those Harvard men are really like...
Many old people told me afterwards they had sons for me. One woman rushed up to me after having finished being forced into calling bingo numbers for two hours and said, "My son (he's at Medical School) will love you. You could date him (he's in Boston). He just broke up with this girl (she wasn't Jewish)." She forced a piece of paper into my hand. Needless to say, I was very flattered. Months later, doing my laundry, I found a piece of paper with a phone number and mystifying Hebrew characters...
...program is a dramatic example of what a citizens group can do to fight crime. Another citizens crime commission, in Wichita, is run like an FBI cover operation. It is headed by former G-Man Maurice ("Corky") Corcoran, 60, who likes making "a stakeout" and boasts of nipping a bingo operation and an abortion ring. But the main work of the 24 citizens commissions around the country is to be watchdogs. Privately supported, mostly with business contributions, the groups have professional staffs ranging from 19 in Chicago to one in Saginaw, Mich. They have no power to make arrests...
Keaton's decline was ghoulishly documented by the industry that caused it. He appeared as increasingly deteriorating versions of himself in Hollywood Cavalcade (1939), Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). He turned his anger inward and drank himself to distraction. Yet he also lived long enough to become the somewhat puzzled darling of academics and film historians. Samuel Beckett sought him out and wrote a screenplay, Film (1964), in which Keaton starred. When the two met for the first time, they discovered that they had almost nothing to talk about...