Thursday Reads

 Obituary:  Singer and actor Steve Lawrence, who with his late wife Eydie Gorme seemed to be everywhere during the 1960s, and Steve became almost a regular on The Carol Burnett Show, has died.  He was 88 years old.  He died from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

They were a talented couple.  They were a part of my childhood growing up and much of my adulthood.  Steve especially had a great sense of humor.

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Steve Lawrence was born Sidney Liebowitz in Brooklyn on July 8, 1935. The son of a cantor, he grew up singing in synagogue choirs. Music was always a part of his life, but he didn’t know what direction it would take him until the day he listened to his first Sinatra record.

“I must’ve been 15 years old when I heard him. I think I knew [then] what I wanted to do with the rest of my musical life,” he said. “His influence — not only on me, but everyone who came after him — was so indelible, so powerful.”

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Lawrence attended Thomas Jefferson High School, but books weren’t a priority. He would skip classes to spend his days in Manhattan at the Brill Building, hustling to make connections and pick up some cash singing demos. It was at the songwriting mecca that he first met Gormé; he was entering the building as singer Bob Manning, an acquaintance, was leaving with her. 

“Bob said, ‘I want you to meet Eydie Gormé,’ ” Lawrence recalled in a 2014 interview with the Los Angeles Times. “She had her hair in a ponytail, and her ponytail hit me in my face.”

The rest, as "they" say, is history. Here is a notable duet not featuring Eydie:

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Alabama's government tries to do damage control after the state's supreme court called frozen embryos "children" and other such nonsense.

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Good thing that dimwit got overrruled.

I can't stand "presentism."

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