Fabulous Friday: "Shake Your Groove Thing"
Today is the twentieth anniversary of my father's death, the wonderful Howard Ryan. It might seem a little incongruous that the song I would choose to pay a tribute to him would be "Shake Your Groove Thing" but it's part of a heart-warming story about him. I went to college at UW-Madison and, like thousands of other Madisonians, stayed there for many more years. Eleven years, to be precise. They used to say that Madison had the most overeducated cab drivers on earth. That Bad
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CDA: Stacy Keach
Actor Stacy Keach died the other day at the age of 85. Did anyone else's career run the gamut from Shakespeare to Cheech and Chong...? That's what I call RANGE. He played Hamlet at Shakespeare in the Park in 1972. Take a look at this amazing cast: Hamlet: Keach Gertrude: Colleen Dewhurst Claudius: James Earl Jones Ophelia: Kitty Winn Laertes: Sam Waterston Polonius: Barnard Hughes Player Queen: Linda Hunt Orsino: Raul Julia First Gravedigger: Charles Durning Second Gravedigge
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