Monday Reads

 A whack job gushing over a book by another whack job and doing it under the banner of NPR is not a good look.

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I forgot to put in the obituary of actor, mostly on the stage, Robert Morse, who died a few days ago at the age of 90.  Morse died after a short illness.  He is best known for his role in the play How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying.

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Robert Morse was born on May 18, 1931, in Newton, Massachusetts. His father owned a chain of movie theaters, and his mother studied piano at the New England Conservatory of Music.

After serving in the Korean War, Morse trained at the American Theatre Wing in New York in the early ’50s and landed a job as a rehearsal singer on Name That Tune. An agent heard him and signed him up, and Morse would appear as a wounded soldier in The Proud and the Profane (1956).

Morse made his Broadway debut in 1955 appearing alongside Ruth Gordon in the original production of The Matchmaker, written by Thornton Wilder. (He also played apprentice Barnaby Tucker in the 1958 Paramount version.)

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Pepe LePew, also known as Elon Musk, is set to buy Twitter to the tune of 44 billion dollars, which is walking around money for him.

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