Talk:Lou Holtz (actor)

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[edit] San Francisco?

According to an article in TIME in 1944, he was born in Manhattan?! --Orange Mike 18:06, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Holtz and Robert Bloch

From a response to a question about Bloch's involvement in vaudeville comes this anecdote about Holtz:

According to his autobiography, Once Around the Bloch: An Unauthorized Autobiography, he appeared once on an "amateur night" in Milwaukee in order to get the attention of a pro playing in town, to whom he was trying to sell some material. As a result of that appearance, he got a few gigs as what we would now call a stand-up comedian, purely locally "at the kind of bar that advertised 'Entertainment Nightly'"; his agent got half of his $10 fee, and he didn't pursue this line of work for long. He also sold a few jokes to performers (local and national); and tried (unsuccessfully) to persuade vaudeville veteran Lou Holtz that there was more market for an autobiography of his colorful career than for a "novel" based on his Jewish dialect material about "Sam Lapidus" (which was already on the path to 'no-longer-acceptable'). That was about the extent of his "vaudeville" career. --Orange Mike 17:41, 3 April 2007 (UTC) (typing this a couple of blocks from one of Bloch's old apartments in Milwaukee)

FYI! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 13:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)