Fun with trivia. Gore Vidal and Jackie Kennedy's mothers were both married to Hugh Auchincloss. Also, JFK though that "Hudgie" as he was known, was kind of a tool. Ben Bradlee described him as the male verson of Margaret Dumont's character in the Marx Brothers films.

Vidal believed that Kennedy found war romantic and fun. He also believed that like LBJ, JFK would have remained in Vietnam as to not appear weak to our allies, and give the Republicans an issue to beat him over the head with.

From what I've read, she did an interview with the Kennedy Library that will be released 75 years after her death, IIRC. I remember reading in one of the first critical biographies of JFK, "The Search For JFK" his long time friend, Lem Billings had been working on an oral history with the Library that archivists at…

I always thought his "Glory And The Dream" would have made a great documentary series.

She also snubbed Gore Vidal as well. He was close to JFK and Jackie until he got into a fight with RFK at a White House party. Then he wrote "The Holy Family." which was published in Esquire around the time of the Manchester controversy, and he went into detail on how the Kennedy's attempted to quash Jim Bishop's…

Robert Caro made a statement at the end of the CNN Kennedy Assassination program that Kennedy's death changed the trajectory of the '60's. I agreed with a statement that Gore Vidal made that JFK was essentially a war lover, and would not have pulled us out of Vietnam, and like Johnson, would have been on the…

In William F. Buckley's obituary of Jackie, he mentioned that he asked her if she would possibly narrate and appear in a promotional film about Grand Central Terminal, similar to the one she did about the White House for CBS. She told him that while she'd be happy to donate money, time, and organize events to raise…

Frankly, I didn't have a problem with Johnson handling the succession the way he did. And RFK and a lot of the Kennedy administration people except for JFK, Sargent Shriver and John Kenneth Galbraith treated Johnson like a joke, and he got mad, then he got even.

Thanks for the reply. I remember the jacuzzi joke. Letterman mentioned Corky in his conversation with Jerry Seinfeld in his "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee" appearance, in which he said that people in his office would talk about Lenny at least once a week, than began to go into the story about Lenny putting Corky…

True, but I did love his burn against Tinker in "Private Parts." Also for the fact that unlike someone like Norman Lear, he didn't strike me as a creative person, as simply a good manager of talent.

Somewhere, Howard Stern is laughing.

As Uniontown was roughly the same distance from Wheeling,WV, home of Elby's Big Boy, and Pittsburgh, which was also the same distance from Uniontown, and home of Eat 'N Park, which was the Big Boy franchisee in Pittsburgh, we Upper Ohio Valley residents have known this for years. He invented nothing.

Do you have any idea if "Corky" worked with comedian Lenny Schultz, of "Go Crazy, Lenny!" fame? David Letterman and other comedians tell of an amazing and incredibly tasteless bit Lenny did with a little person named "Corky" at the Comedy Store in the '70's.

Yes, it was. I believe it was distribution issues between Warner Brothers and the other movie studio that was to jointly finance the movie that originally killed it.

And as it turned out, even Elvis hated the thing and had it withdrawn.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havin…

If memory serves, that reason that record came out was that Elvis would make more money off that LP than a regular live record, as they wouldn't have to pay royalties to songwriters of the songs not controlled by Elvis's publishing company. After the thing cratered, RCA told the Colonel in no uncertain terms that…

I remember reading somewhere on the web that the difference between Tosh and Cook was that Tosh writes his own stand up, as versus Cook who stole most of his material that didn't involve him running around the stage like an idiot.

And that line of comedy that originated with Jack Benny, was a huge influence on Jack's biggest fan, Johnny Carson, who in turn was a huge influence on David Letterman.

Before the clip of Brooks's father's performance made the web, if you knew Albert Brooks and he liked you, he would play it for you.

Check out Kliph's "Classic Television Showbiz" blog. Especially his interviews with Gary Mule Deer and Murray "The Unknown Comic" Langston, as they are virtual tutorials in mid 70's Los Angeles comedy with big shout outs to Letterman, Martin, Markoe, Dreesen, Miller, Witherspoon, and Altman.