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StillJustDON

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About Me

BRIEF SLIDE SHOW "GLIMPSE" into my career, life, and loves. Left out as much "vanity" and "name-dropping" as possible, etc. Not too personal. wink wink!============================================= =============================================== MY SITE IS YOUR TALENT FOR MY FRIENDS & I TO ENJOY. AFTER OVER 30 YEARS DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS as everything form performer, agent/management/hotel executive, journalist and critic to author I can almost gurantee, you might get an unexpected treat by visiting the sites OF MY "friends." In Vegas over half my adult life as things like publicist/director for the DEAN MARTIN ROASTS, The TROPICANA and MGM GRAND hotels, and the "LEGENDS IN CONCERT" shows); Showbiz critic and columnist with the largest daly newspapers in Vegas and AZ and every other smaller one in Vegas, and a three-time radio/TV host in a main hotel showroom coast to coast, who, as a performer--TV commercials, studied with Lee Strassberg's School, sang, and played piano--walked a mile in their moccasins, as a critic unlike most. Had the distinct priviledge of working and being friends with ALL THREE of the REAL RAT PACK members in my career: DEAN, SAMMY, and FRANK (separately,not together--I'm not THAT old), and many, many more. Also repped acts like 6-time Star Search winner and country star TAMMY PEMBERTON at every major hotel in late 80s, Opryland, brason, etc., right to Warner records; magician CARLTON & Co., I had in the MGM, STARDUST and HILTON hotels; as well as talent giant JIMMY HOPPER--over four years at BELLAGIO in Vegas, among others. Acts also opened for JAY LENO, TOBY KEITH, LACY J. DALTON, MOE BANDY, and others. (Photos, videos, and slide shows of all this will eventually be going up on here.) Decided to quit the "fast lane" in 2005 (See or read the book "Tuesdays with Morrie" and started more "creative" writing--books, poetry, TV, and a movie. I've also done major location work for TV (yaaaaawn...'scuse me...talking about myself is so exciting) and film crews coming to Vegas. Aaand...I DO use Q-Tips. ===========================================

My Interests

ORIGINALLY when I put the song "SHE" up, by the young artist AARON CARUSO, as a tribute to my late fiance, Robin (the beauty in the video at right) and for another lovely woman in my "friends" group, many people asked if it was the same song from the movie "Notting Hill" with JULIA ROBERTS (sung by ELVIS COSTELLO). It WAS in the movie. HOWEVER, it was ORIGINALLY written and recorded 34 years ago for a TV series "Seven Faces of Woman" and written by the great French-Armenian singer and songwriter CHARLES AZNAVOUR, as heard above and in the video, synced to "HARRY POTTER," below (AFTA MA FAVOR-IITE SINGA...6-YEAH OL' LUKE FRUM AWKANSAW): =================== =================== "SHE" by the original writer and singer CHARLES AZNAVOUR as synced to "HARRY POTTER" =================== =================== Another great CHARLES AZNAVOUR song; the original version of his "Yesterday When I was Young" with video of the great singer - songwriter. ====================================== The most beautiful duet ever: Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman "Time To Say Goodbye" =================== ===================I feature, on a rotating basis, some of the incredibly gifted artists, I've met, throughout my page. They all deserve to "make" it, if they haven't already, and I marvel at their talents. Plus, there are a few "Oldies but Goodies" in the videos.================= KAKI KING--The fastest and most unique "picker" in the world in the vid below. ================= Kaki King - Playing With Pink Noise
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Add to My Profile | More Videos ================== While on the subject of great guitar playing--VICKI GENFAN'S "Atomic Reshuffle" ================== Vicki Genfan - Atomic Reshuffle
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Add to My Profile | More Videos ================== Love ELVIS? You'll love this "Viva Las Vegas" DVD performed by a friend known around the world as "SHE IS THE KING." ===================================

I'd like to meet:

Those who still believe that hatred, anger, and dishonesty, rot the spirit; while love, compassion, and understanding, nuture the soul. As someone once wrote to me: "God Bless the Poets, The Dreamers, The Singers of Songs; for amid all the anger and violence and hate, they still believe in love." And many of them are now "my friends" on here: ============================================= My "friends" have varying and incredible styles and talent of their own on their sites, ranging from country to rock to metal to punk rock to pop operatic to Flamenco; dancers, comics, singers, instrumentalists, painters, illustrators, writers, and poets. Artists all. =============================================

Music:

MORE EXAMPLES of what, after 35 years in the arts (Watch it...I heard that! I started in my teens! :o), I consider older and newer magnificent talent. =================== Newer artistry like that of KAKI KING and "SHE IS THE KING" rocks. SHIRLEY BASSEY's "This Is My Life." (Even at 72 yrs. old, If the hairs on the back of your neck don't stand up--you're bald back there.) The greatest tap number ever, as agreed to by SINATRA--filmed in an unheard of SINGLE take! ELEANOR POWELL keeps up with FRED ASTAIRE, step for step. Rare viedo of JERRY LEE LEWIS, FATS DOMINO, and RAY CHARLES on three pianos playing TOGETHER AT ONE TIME. SAMMY DAVIS JR. in the 1960's. One of the most enchanting female voices you may never have heard of from the 70s, CLAIBORNE CARY. (If a lavender candle could sing, she is what it would sound like.) ===================Dame. Shirley Bassey - This Is My Life

Add to My Profile | More Videos===================Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell

Add to My Profile | More Videos ==================Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, Ray Charles piano medley

Add to My Profile | More Videos================== ================== Claiborne Cary: Where's The Boy?
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