Randy Twizzle

There already was such a book, written by Jeff Pearlman: "The Bad Guys Won!" A Season of Brawling, Boozing, Bimbo-chasing, and Championship Baseball with Straw, Doc, Mookie, Nails, The Kid, and the Rest of the 1986 Mets, the Rowdiest Team Ever to Put on a New York Uniform--and Maybe the Best http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...651138?v=glance

Yeah Curt why can't you just get with the program, you're just a dumb ball player who should mouth tired cliches when he's asked to speak. MLB can't have guys who speak their own mind, it might upset the fans and that's not good for business.

← You're right. It's Susan Harrison. Joan Harrison was a pioneering female producer who often worked with Alfred Hitchcock.

She was fine! I don't think she appeared in any other films. Are you saying that chicks don't dig bald, bespectacled guitarists? As a bald, bespectacled guitarist, I resemble that. I mean resent that. ← The IMDB shows Joan Harrison appearing in one other film in 1960 and in a bunch of TV shows. I'd like to know who played the awkward female jazz fan who tries to strike up a conversation with Milner betwen sets. Her very brief role seems to be a dig at a certain kind of jazz fan.

7. Yankee fans arguing whether this player or that player is a "true Yankee." 8. Billy Crystal talking about Mickey Mantle for the 1000th time 9. Rudy G in his field box seat (everybody knows you're a big fan, so the Yankee jacket and hat aren't really necessary anymore) 10. Standing ovations for Jason Giambi

Another rave review http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1290/article13630.asp

``I'm always worried about him,'' said Yankee right fielder Gary Sheffield, who is Gooden's nephew. ``The family has tried everything. I've sent him to rehab, spent a lot of money. There comes a point where you just have to let him go through what he has to go through.'' http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBK4K22RCE.html

Former boyfriend sues the disappearing jazz singer, claiming he discovered her By Jonathan Brown Published: 24 August 2005 The troubled jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux is embroiled in a bitter and long-running legal battle with her former boyfriend and musical collaborator who says he "discovered" her singing in a bar. The acrimonious case, which casts light on the star's so-called "missing years" between her first hit and her latest success, is being brought by the musician William Galison amid claims of physical abuse, harassment, libel and thwarted ambition. It is expected to be heard at the Federal Court in New York next month. Galison, who has performed with stars such as Carly Simon, Barbara Streisand and Shaka Khan, is claiming $1m (£555,000) in damages resulting from the split with Peyroux. The dispute centres on the recording of a seven-track CD entitled Got You On My Mind in March 2003, shortly before Peyroux signed with Universal, the world's biggest record label. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americ...ticle307882.ece

My 81 year old mother calls them "music discs" as in "The next time you're in a music store can you look to see if they're any Mandy Patinkin music discs."

He also played hot young jazz guitarist Steve Dallas in "Sweet Smell of Success" where he got on the wrong side of Burt Lancaster's J.J. Hunsecker.

I told her not to take that gig in Aruba.

This picture has nothing to do with the topic but I can't find anywhere else to post it.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ug...ines-california

I can identify with this guy because after my first wife left me she went on to become quite active in community theatre in the Philadelphia suburbs. 08-17) 09:00 PDT Lewiston, Maine (AP) -- James Dougherty, the retired Los Angeles detective who was the first man to marry Norma Jeane Baker — before she went off to Hollywood and took the name Marilyn Monroe — has died. He was 84. Dougherty died Monday in San Rafael, Calif., of complications of leukemia, his stepdaughter, Annie Woods of Sabattus, told the Sun-Journal of Lewiston. He had spent much of his later years in Maine. Dougherty married Baker in 1942, before he went to sea as a merchant mariner. She was 16 at the time. Baker set out to pursue a Hollywood career while Dougherty was gone, and the two were divorced in 1946. Dougherty remarried twice. Dougherty worked for the Los Angeles police department for 25 years, serving as a detective and training the department's first Special Weapons and Tactics group. After his retirement in 1974, he moved to Arizona and later to Maine, living in the small town of Sabattus. Dougherty refused for years to talk about his time with Monroe, but after his second divorce he was more comfortable with the subject. In 1997, Dougherty wrote a book titled "To Norma Jeane with Love, Jimmie." He said he followed Marilyn's career until her death in 1962. She was a movie star, while the woman he married was a small-town girl, he said. "I love her, but I'm not in love with her," he told the Sun-Journal in a 1997 interview. "There's a lot of difference between loving someone and being in love." In 1995, he showed up at the Skowhegan post office for a party celebrating a new stamp bearing Monroe's picture. He autographed books of stamps as his current wife looked on from a nearby seat. "It seemed like a nice, positive program, so I said I'd come out," he said. He recalled that 16-year-old bride's "plans then were to be a homemaker." While living in Maine, he served a stint as an Androscoggin County commissioner and taught at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy. "His years with Marilyn Monroe, that was just a small part of his life," said Schani Krug, who wrote, produced and directed a documentary titled "Marilyn's Man" about Dougherty last year. "He was everything she never had." His third wife, Rita, died in 2003. Dougherty's family plans to fly his body back to Maine for burial, Woods said.

Two news stories, the first from Aug 4 and the second from Aug 16 both from The Chichester (UK) Observer Protest to Vatican over jazz concert A Petworth Festival jazz concert is to go ahead in a Roman Catholic church despite an appeal to the Vatican to intervene on the grounds that its sacredness will be violated. Campbell Burnap and his All-Star Jazz Band have been booked to give the lunchtime concert at the Church of St Anthony and St George, Duncton, and every £8 ticket has already been snapped up. But Christopher Savage, a worshipper, part-time organist and a member of the choir at the parent Sacred Heart Church in Petworth, has vowed to work to the last minute to get it moved to another venue. He says he has the support of other Roman Catholics in the area. Mr Savage said: "I do not object to jazz in the right setting. It is the fact that it is not suitable there, in a very precious, small church which is almost a cemetery chapel. "It is in a graveyard and Anthony Wright-Biddulph of Burton Park, who had it built, and other family members are buried in the crypt." The church, which was consecrated by Cardinal Manning in 1869, has been the venue for Petworth Festival performers in the past but Mr Savage said they were 'genteel' string quartets or classical singers. Bishop stops ban on jazz in church The Roman Catholic Bishop of Arundel and Brighton has intervened in the row over a Petworth Festival jazz concert held at a church in Duncton last Saturday. Bishop Kieran Conry, who has just returned from a pilgrimage to Lourdes, said he had no intention of stopping the show going ahead, despite pleas from a Petworth parishioner, Christopher Savage, a worshipper at the parent church in Petworth, the Sacred Heart. Mr Savage, who had also written to the Vatican, had claimed that the sacredness of the Church of St Anthony and St George would be violated by the concert, given at lunchtime by Campbell Burnap and his All-Star Jazz Band. Mgr Conry told the Midhurst and Petworth Observer this week: "I had no intention of blocking the performance because that would have been disruptive. The church cannot be seen acting in such a heavy-handed and insensitive manner." And he said that, technically, the ruling from Rome under which Mr Savage had made his challenge, would bar any secular music from being performed in a Roman Catholic church. "There would be no difference between a Beethoven quartet and jazz. You cannot make a judgement on the style of the music," the bishop said.

Well it's a start...

He's also appeared in a Paul Auster film called "Lulu on the Bridge" http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:162490

From the NY Daily News By DON SINGLETON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Jazz trombonist Charles Stephens vanished mysteriously last Saturday after leaving his Brooklyn home with his horn and hasn't been seen since, his family said yesterday. Stephens, 59, who has played backup trombone with a galaxy of top jazz bands over the course of his 40-year career, was seen leaving his Clinton Hill home with his instrument in its case. Family spokesman and longtime friend Marty Sonnenfeld of Community Communications said Stephens' wife, Tami, found no notation on her husband's normally well-organized calendar to indicate he had a performing or recording engagement on that date. Furthermore, Sonnenfeld said, Stephens, a "staunchly reliable veteran musician," failed to show up for scheduled engagements on Monday and Wednesday evenings, leading the family to file a missing persons report with the Police Department. Sonnenfeld said Stephens, a large man, had high blood pressure, but no indications of Alzheimer's disease or any other form of dementia. "Stephens is considered a master musician," Sonnenfeld said. "He performs frequently with such leading big bands as the Duke Ellington Orchestra and the George Gee Big Band. His 40-year resume includes touring the world and recording with such major artists as the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra [and] vocalists Nancy Wilson and Eartha Kitt." "Charles is well-loved and 100% dependable," said bandleader George Gee. "It is extremely unusual for him to be out of contact with his family and friends for this long. "The Stephens family is desperately seeking any information - including where he may have been slated to perform last Saturday, or if anyone may have seen or heard from him since then." Anyone with knowledge of Stephens' whereabouts is urged to contact Tami Stephens at (718) 638-7903.

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A Saunter-Finnegan Orchestra CD was missing for a few years and eventually turned up under a pile of magazines that I was throwing out. Coincidently, today I lost a portable CD player, most likely on a NJ Transit train where I last used it. I'm still trying to figure how it happened. Alcohol was not involved.

The last time I was in Chicago was 20 yrs ago, but a recent trip to google tells me that the name of the place is The Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery

All I know is that Clementine used "Ya'll" and that's good enough for me.

BY ZAN STEWART Star-Ledger Staff A unique hybrid trumpet, a poster autographed by scores of musicians, and a Grammy statuette are among the many items up for auction from the estate of John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, the jazz trumpet icon, and his wife, Lorraine. About 3,000 items owned by the Gillespies, who lived in Englewood from 1965 until their deaths -- Dizzy in 1993, his wife last year -- will be put on sale Sept. 14 by Dawson & Nye Auctioneers in Morris Plains. "The Gillespies lived a rather modest lifestyle. But I think they knew of their global importance, because they seemed to have kept nearly everything," said Andrew Holter, director of business development for Dawson & Nye. The items, which have yet to be cataloged, will be assembled into about 1,000 lots for the auction, Holter said. The memorabilia range from the spectacular to the everyday. Among the former is the hybrid trumpet, called a "pudgy" -- part trumpet, part cornet, part fluegelhorn -- designed by Bob DeNicola of Trenton. Holter said it might fetch $5,000 to $10,000. The autographed poster, commemorating Dizzy's 75th birthday, is covered with handwritten greetings, among them from noted musicians Jackie McLean, Red Rodney and Steve Turre. Holter estimated it would go for $2,000. The auction will benefit various individuals named in Lorraine Gillespie's will. Marion "Boo" Frazier of Dumont, who was Dizzy's cousin, said Lorraine had wanted the auction because she and Dizzy "had so much, she said, and the best way to get rid of it is to let the public have it." Frazier will be one of the auction's beneficiaries. The Grammy statuette, for 1975 best solo jazz performance (in "Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie"), should bring around $5,000, said Holter. Also among the items is a sepia-toned publicity photo of the young Gillespie in the 1940s that he inscribed to his wife: "The only breath of fresh air that has ever entered my lungs. Yours, 'Dizzy.'" A bronze bust of the trumpeter by artist Dexter Jones and an admiral's cap worn by Gillespie in photos with Cuban leader Fidel Castro are also up for bid. Much of what is to be auctioned has historical interest. There's a telegram from Gillespie to Robert F. Kennedy. There's also a handwritten ribald note from a friend and colleague, pianist Mary Lou Williams, and a jovial typewritten diet from trumpeter Louis Armstrong that he based on the laxative Swiss Kriss. The Rolleiflex camera that Gillespie took on his State Department-sponsored tour of the Middle East in the mid-'50s is to be auctioned. Thousands of personal snapshots are on the block, as are stacks of musical manuscripts, some in Gillespie's hand, a conga drum that he often played in public, a drum set, an upright piano, reel-to-reel tapes (which have yet to be identified), and more than 1,000 LP records, many vintage. The nonmusical items range from articles of clothing, including several of Lorraine's fur coats, to many pieces of her gemstone jewelry, and glass and kitchenware. Previews for the auction, which is open to the public, will be Sept. 11-13, at Dawson & Nye, 128 American Road, Morris Plains. There will some musical performances in conjunction with the auction, including one at the auction house by the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. Further information on the auction is available from Dawson & Nye at (973) 984-6900 or www.dawsonandnye.com. The auctioneers say bids will be accepted in advance, and during the sale they may be submitted in person, by phone and through eBay Live.