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Joey Bishop looked at Sinatra to see if the leader was laughing. He was so it was OK for everyone to join in.
Whitey Lockman stepped into the batter's box. Ball one. Campanella called time and went out to the mound to calm Newcombe down.
"My advice to you," Sinatra said, "is to live each day of your life as if it's your last. Because one day it will be."
Bishop led the laughter.
from The Gleason Chronicles
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
I saw Joey Bishop walking around Manhattan one morning. He got into a car on Robert Lowell and they turned down Phil Levine and disappeared.
Posted by: early wynn | September 19, 2010 at 10:55 PM
"I love my ceiling more since it is a dancing floor," he sang. They were both right. And though the Dodgers bowed to the Chisox 11-0 in game one, they won four of the next five games in convincing fashion.
Posted by: Carl Furillo | September 20, 2010 at 01:31 AM
As I recall, Ernie Koufax and Don "Edie" Adams combined on a one-hitter against the Muriel Airtips. This was a-ways back; I don't expect a young 'un like Gilbert to remember. I think it was the year Larry "Moe" Durrell won the National League Book Award for the "Nairobi Quartet." Don Justine shouted, "Play Balthazar!" and Dusty
"Revolutionary" Rhodes won the peanut with a walk-off poem run.
Posted by: early wynn | September 20, 2010 at 07:40 PM
"James" Joyce said to Capt Furillo, "Hey, Pizza Man, remember what Meyer Wolfsheim told Jay Gatz: 'Only gonnect,' even though reports of 'Howard's End' were greatly exaggerated." But George Karl Marx--a descendant of the famous Victorian religious leader, and also the only socialist basketball coach in the NBA--cried out, "My heart belongs to Daddy Lipscomb," and moved to Sweden where they have socialized medicine balls. Meanwhile, Tom cruelly leveraged his body into Daisy, who sang, "Nick, Nick, bo-bick, banana fanna fo-fick, fee fie mo-mick--Nick!" And the lights all went out in Massachusetts.
Posted by: andy gibb | September 20, 2010 at 10:47 PM