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Thus, high in the air, where the names of Frank Sinatra, Henny Youngman and Engelbert Humperdinck once flaunted their charisma above the throngs of tourists, where the mysterioso and much lifted faces of Siegfried and Roy stared down from between the white tigers whose diminutive, fluffy clonelets fill a whole shop on the ground floor of the Mirage, high art has descended on the desert with a palpable clang. It had to come. It has come. Art abhors a vacuum, and if Las Vegas hasn't earned a name for being culturally underoxygenated, what place in America...
DIED. HENNY YOUNGMAN, 91, motormouth comic who was once clocked at 250 one-liners in 45 minutes; in New York City. One favorite standby: "Take my wife--please!" (See Eulogy below...
...knew Henny Youngman for 50 years, and until two weeks ago, he always called me kid. I saw him do stand-up for the first time 60 years ago, when I was 10 years old. When I left the club, my father asked me what I thought, and I said I thought he was funny. That was his greatest contribution. He was not progressive, he was not controversial or thought-provoking or political. He was just funny...
...there was a rhythm. He once said that after he did 20 jokes, he could just mumble and the audience would laugh, because it was his perfect rhythm that made him funny. Whenever anybody does a joke that has no rhyme, no reason, just rhythm, you'll think of Youngman...
...last we saw of Youngman onstage was for Scorsese's Mafia in 1990's "GoodFellas." At 85, the machine gun was still going strong. For his last birthday, Youngman gathered some reporters for a reading of his "Last Will and Testament": "To my nephew Irving, who still keeps asking me to mention him in my will: 'Hello, Irving!'" The one-liner will never be the same...