Word: nightclubs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Olmos was making his way in two worlds. By day he attended East Los Angeles College and California State University, and by night he performed -- sometimes till past dawn -- with the Pacific Ocean, then the house band at Gazzarri's nightclub on Sunset Strip. He began taking acting classes to improve his show. "I started acting to learn how to become a better singer," he says. "Then the whole thing switched on me. I discovered that the spoken word is easier to project than the sung word...
...soon graduated to the Canadian nightclub circuit, where as the Great Randall he performed routine acts of legerdemain. One night after his show, a policeman jokingly clapped a pair of cuffs on him and dared him to escape. Piece of cake. "I walked into the open door of a squad car and got out the other side with the cuffs off." Chagrined, the police challenged him to break out of a locked jail cell. He did, easily, and the next day a local newspaper carried a story headlined THE AMAZING RANDI ESCAPES FROM QUEBEC PRISON. "From that moment...
...Oswald's death, at the hands of Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, Scheim sees an attempt by the Mafia to cover its tracks by preventing Oswald from divulging what he knew. Much of the argument here stems from Scheim's documentation of Ruby's underworld activity, including illegal gambling schemes, narcotics trafficking and prostitution...
...early scraps with Clint Courtney, Billy Hunter, Jimmy Piersall, Larry Doby and Roy Campanella, they were as preliminary as Jack Dempsey's first fights under the name Kid Blackie. In the Ring book, Martin's official record begins in 1957 at New York City's Copacabana nightclub, where Yankee Teammates Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Hank Bauer and Johnny Kucks were toasting Martin's 29th birthday at the same time that a Bronx man named Edward Jones was celebrating the end of the bowling season...
...alibi was compelling. "Hit him?" shrugged Bauer, batting .203 at the time. "Why, I haven't hit anybody all year." Only the humble pitcher Kucks was impressed by the $1,000 fines handed down a few days later in Cleveland. "Do you know if there is a good nightclub in this town?" Berra asked the writers. But only Martin was truly blamed. He was traded to Kansas City...