Nonce Upon a Time

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Listener Michael Zarky dished up some thoughts on our round of nonce words from Palo Alto (SY-2028):

Of course as a child I wouldn’t have noticed that a word in The Owl and the Pussycat had no real meaning. But, looking it up now, I discover that it really has none. All the other meanings that have been tacked on to it after Lear used it several times are not consistent with the drawing he made. So it wasn’t really fair to ask for a meaning of it – anything goes, they are all a posteriori.

Says You! Sizzling Summer Stints

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Arnie Reisman is getting busy with WAR PAINT, a musical based on his and co-producer Ann Carol Grossman’s PBS documentary about the rivalry of Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden. It opens June 28 at the Goodman Theater in Chicago for a seven-week run starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole. For more info, head to the Goodman Theatre’s site. Tickets are going briskly, get yours now!
Arnie has also put out another book of poems, Sodom and Costello, scheduled for release July 1, published by Summerset Press. Available soon on Amazon!
Murray Horwitz will be the new host of WAMU’s The Big Broadcast, their old-time radio show that’s been on air for over 50 years. You can listen in locally to WAMU from 7:00 to 11:00 every Sunday evening and stream it from wamu.org following the broadcast.

Tom Bergeron with Says You in San Bernardino!

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San Bernardino with Tom Bergeron! on June 25. Yes, Tom Bergeron, Emmy award winner and host of Dancing with the Stars will be reuniting with his long-time friends to play Says You! Like most of the cast, Tom is a Boston boy and got his start locally at WBZ –TV hosting and anchoring where the rest of our gang was at one time or another gainfully employed. By the 90’s Tom chose a bi-coastal lifestyle becoming the face and heart of America’s Funniest Home Videos, Hollywood Squares, and – of course – Dancing with the Stars. Our one concern is that Tom used to work as a mime, someone should be sure to tell him Says You! is radio.

Tickets on sale now!

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