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...ROBERT KLEIN is upset. Just landed in Los Angeles, he has spent the last half hour on the phone in his Beverly Wilshire suite talking to his wife, opera singer Brenda Boozer, who has lost her credit cards--their credit cards. "Luckily, they know me here," Klein sighs, sitting in the hotel bar. "They know I'm disreputable...
...money. Not to suggest that Robert Klein, former middle class Jewish Bronx kid (he's still Jewish, but no longer middle class and living in the Bronx), is in need of the bucks, but earning a living seems to be one of the reasons Klein has flown West. "After a wonderful summer I was rudely awakened to open at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe. Two weeks in paradise. Thank you! Quite enough...
...stand-up comic, which Klein takes great, immodest pride in being, he much prefers the college concert circuit to the big money gambling and entertainment dens. "Where they don't serve drinks or food. With theater seats, facing one direction--college gymnasiums, lecture halls, theaters. With college audiences I can reach for the highest...
Dangerfield's is a name that pops up a lot in Klein's conversation. The pair worked together during the fledgling days of the Improvisation club in New York. "Rodney helped me a lot," Klein says, affectionately. Another familiar name from the Improv days is Richard Pryor; despite their considerably different backgrounds, Klein says the two shared a similar comedic sensibility and perspective on life...
ECONOMICS: THE MAN BEHIND THE MODELS. "I have a class at 10:30.1 don't think that this will be an occasion for missing class." That was the response of Economist Lawrence Klein, 60, last week when a reporter telephoned him asking for a comment on the news that he had just won the Nobel Prize. The University of Pennsylvania professor was cited for his contributions as "the leading research worker within the field of the economic science which deals with the construction and analysis of empirical models of business fluctuations...