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...Joey's voice is heard answering quietly from backstage: "I dunno. Dean Martin is drunk; Sammy Davis hadda go to da temple; Peter Lawford's out campaigning for his brother-in-law." Hopefully, the M.C. asks: "What's Frank doing?" Joey's answer is a wise snicker. Then he makes his entrance...
...Wheel. Among the newer comics, from sickniks to social satirists, Joey stands alone. His wry, deadpan comments raise even the obvious to the realm of high comedy. At the Sands, in the midst of chaos and pure corn-Sinatra beating a bass drum that advertises his L.A. beanery, or Dean Martin drinking Scotch from an ice bucket-Joey can still be funny...
When Sammy Davis swings into She'd Live in a Tent, Joey worriedly pretends to detect an Arab influence, announces: "Jewish people don't live in tents. We don't even smoke Camels." When Senator Jack Kennedy caught the show last week, Joey told him: "If you get in, Frank has to be Ambassador to Italy and Sammy to Israel. I don't want too much for myself-just don't let me get drafted again." Turning to the medical profession, he muses: "My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn...
...Joey's quips are delivered with a warmth that never wounds. Even the self-protective Sinatra loves them. The "summit session" at the Sands was made possible because all of its stars are in Vegas for the filming of Frank's new movie, Ocean's II. But the nightly "meetings," says Frank in a masterfully mixed metaphor, "could not have come off without the Speaker of the House-Joey Bishop, the hub of the big wheel...
Another Name. At 42, Joey has been waiting a long time to get to the center of things. Born Joseph Abraham Gottlieb, he grew up in Philadelphia. "My folks were poor," he remembers, "but I didn't mind poverty. They always played games. For instance, when I'd come home, they had moved." He quit high school, formed the Bishop Brothers Trio with two pals named Reisman and Spector (Bishop was the name of another friend who promised to drive them to auditions). Through the late '30s, they played the Eastern burlesque circuit...