Morey Amsterdam

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... with Morey Amsterdam at this Chicago party, 'cause he's from Chicago.

They used to have this party in LA.

And I'm like, I'm talk- Morey Amsterdam.

I'm talking to Morey [laughs] You know? Uh, it was just...

I always w- was in awe.

And he has quite a show.

It's a 90-minute show, and it features a co-host each week, big names in the entertainment field: Marlene Dahl, Dorothy Dandridge, Pat Carroll, Morey Amsterdam, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Gypsy Rose Lee, and James Mansfield.

There's other prominent names, and they're quite prominent in different ways in their own fields.

And as Jerry told you, it's a beautiful day for a ball game.

reunion.Yeah, so I, I started off, my first interview was with Rose Marie, who I wrote a letter to by getting her address out of a celebrity address book at the library, right? And said, "Will you do an interview? I'm starting this newsletter." And we worked it all out, and we eventually did that.

At the end of our call, I, I said to her, "You know, I'm trying to find Morey Amsterdam.

Can you help me?" And she said, "Yeah, grab a pen." I said, "Okay." So I did, and she gives me his phone number.

And I said, "Well, what am I supposed to do?" She said, "Call him." I'm like, "Just cold, cold call him?" She said, "Yeah, just tell him I gave you the number," right? So I did, right? And then from there it sort of snowballed, right? And then I think that perhaps amongst the cast members, they started to talk about this guy from New York State that was, might call him for an interview, right? As the path ensued, I did An- I, uh, interviewed Ann Gilbert, and then I, uh, you know, the phone rang one morning, on a Saturday morning, and it was Sheldon Leonard on the other end of the phone.

But, you know, I had never met her before.

H- but I, I met, you know, Dick Van Dyke, and I met like Morey Amsterdam.

That must have been a little overwhelming.

It was, yeah.