Sukkot - The Festival of Booths - Day 3

Booth Tarkington.
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

The Courage of Mayor Jerry Sanders

Wow.

Sukkot - The Festival of Booths - Day 2

John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth and Junius Brutus Booth, Jr. in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 1864.

Sukkot - The Festival of Booths

Shirley...

Women Who Could Turn Me, Part 2 of 3

Cybill Shepherd. No one has guessed correctly. #3 will be posted next week. Here's a hint - she's an actress, she's blonde, and she's over 60 (yes, I said it, over 60).

Good week, good Sukkot to all,

Kenny A.

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Marcel Marceau (March 22, 1923 – September 22, 2007

Marcel Marceau was born in Strasbourg, France. At 16, his Jewish family was forced to flee their home when France entered the Second World War. He later joined Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces and, because of his excellent English, worked as a liaison officer with General Patton's army. His father, a kosher butcher, was arrested by the Gestapo and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp.

Marceau was a well-known mime, among the most popular representatives of this art form world-wide. He was said to be "single-handedly responsible for reviving the art of mime after World War II."

He performed all over the world in order to spread the "art of silence" (L'art du silence).

Heterosexuals Flaunting Themselves in Public

Rudy Giuliani, or as I like to call him, Rudy FUCKING Giuliani, just took a cell phone call from his wife (planned, I'm sure) during a talk in front of the National Rifle Association (aka the National FUCKING Rifle Association) to show how devoted he is to her. (Probably about as devoted as he was to his first wife when he was fucking around with Donna Hanover behind her back (Giuliani and Hanover lived together while he was still married to said wife); probably about as devoted he was to Hanover when, during their marriage, he was fucking around serially, first with Cristyne Lategano and then with Judith Nathan.)

If we had a gay candidate, would this happen? No, and I'll tell you why - because we are secure enough in our relationships and in our sexuality that we don't need to flaunt - or prove- anything in public. And of course, no, because a gay candidate wouldn't stoop so low as to kiss the NRA's ass. Period, case closed.

Rudy FUCKING Giuliani, indeed.

Kenny Altman at Hump Day Comedy 9/19/07

Two people in the audience, from Finland no less, plus about 12 comics. More a workshop than an open mic. Thanks for watching, enjoy!

P.S. Gamar tov, Shabbat shalom.

If George Had His Way...

Women Who Could Turn Me, Part 1 of 3

Sally Field. Tune in to this blog a week from today for #2 of 3 or - if you think you know me well enough - guess the next two. The winner will get a special prize from me (probably of no monetary value).

Tonight's Show is Free! (9/16/07)

I am hosting Comedy and More at the SF Playhouse, Stage 2, 533 Sutter Street, tonight at 8:30 PM. This is normally a $20 ticket show with an opportunity for two-fers, but tonight’s show is free! Wow!

This is a great show in a great theatre – come and see me, Adam McLaughlin, Lynn Ruth Miller, Tony Sparks, and Sean McMahon rip the place up (and put it back together before we leave so we can get paid)!

Kenny A.

Elton John - Ego

I Love This Guy!

Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead!

Megachurch Leader D. James Kennedy Dies

MIAMI - Self-professed heterosexual the Rev. D. James Kennedy, an evil, hateful, narrow-minded broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose fiercely conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the religious right in American politics, died Wednesday. He was 76 years old, and he was as unenlightened on the day he died as he was the day he was born. Pity. The man had 76 years to get it right, and apparently never did.

Kennedy, who referred to homosexuality as not a lifestyle but rather a death style, died at his home in Fort Lauderdale from complications of a heart attack he suffered on Dec. 28, according to Cousin Oliver (below), a spokesman for Kennedy's Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church. He had not been seen publicly since the heart attack, and his retirement was announced August 26 from a flogging bench at the Dore Alley Fair in San Francisco.

Kennedy's voice and face were known to millions through radio and television broadcasts, condemning homosexuality and abortion as assaults on the traditional family, usually while carrying a rhinestone-studded Hello Kitty clutch purse and shrieking "you like me, you really like me!"

Kennedy dropped out of college to become an Arthur Murray dance instructor, but eventually returned to earn multiple degrees, including a doctorate from New York University. He met his future wife, the former Anne Lewis, while teaching dance. He often wore her underwear at private and public events and at the time of his death was in negotiations to open a chain of discount clothing stores for transvestites, to be named "Cross Dress for Less."

CORRECTION RE: Sundays in SF, Mondays in Pleasanton

I’m going to be hosting “Comedy and More” at the SF Playhouse, Stage 2, 533 Sutter Street, SF, 2nd floor every Sunday this month. This is a great show in a great theatre and features me plus three other comics + either a magician or a juggler (hence the “more”). Shows are 8:30 pm Sundays 9/9, 9/16, 9/23 and 9/30. Tix are $20 but print out this e-mail and bring it with you for two-for-one tix! You can usually find two-for-one tix at goldstarevents.com as well.

This was originally listed as Shelton Theater. Address is the same, just different room in the same building, 533 Sutter Street.

I’m also going to do the open mic at Tommy T’s in Pleasanton this coming Monday, 9/10. It begins at 7:30 PM. Free admission. Good food, good drink, and some really good comics (and a couple of really, really bad ones!)

Come on down and have some laughs!

Love,

Kenny A.

A Voice That Comes Along Once In A Lifetime - RIP

Luciano Pavarotti (October 12, 1935 - September 6, 2007)

Another Pretty Face, Hearts on Fire '07

The greatest glam-rock band of the 70s reunited in NYC and NJ in May of '07, and it was as good as it was 30 years ago. If the drummer looks familiar, it's Tico Torres who went on from Another Pretty Face to be the drummer for another fairly well-known New Jersey band, Bon Jovi. Enjoy!

Stevie Wonder - Blowin' in the Wind (Live)

This is 9 minutes long and well-worth sitting through. It's amazing, to say the least, and so is Stevie.

Erev Labor Day at The Shelton Theatre

I'll be in the show "Comedy and More" at the Shelton Theatre, 533 Sutter, SF, on Sunday night September 2 (Erev Labor Day). Show begins at 8:30 PM.

This is a great show, in a great theatre! Come on down and have some laughs!

Thanks for your support!

Kenny A.