• • According to Alex Berger: My sister, Anna, an actress, continued my array of brushes with greatnesses. She prepared for her acting career by attending the prestigious Dramatic Workshop with Tony Curtis, Rod Steiger, Bea Arthur, and Harry Belafonte. They were not celebrities at the time. ...
• • • • What a heavy burden is a name that has become famous too soon. — Voltaire
• • Alex Berger explains: Before Belafonte’s rise to fame as a calypso singer, he was unemployed. With no means to support his wife and child, he asked Anna to help him find work and my brother, Jack, hired him. Soon thereafter, Harry invited Jack, Anna, and me to his first nightclub appearance at the Royal Roost nightclub. I was only 16, but they sneaked me in and I brushed headliner Dinah Washington. It was not long before Harry was on his way. ...
• • Alex Berger recalls meeting Mae West: Anna would always invite me backstage following her theater and TV performances. I brushed John Garfield, Fredrick March, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Stiller, Rita Moreno, and James Gandolfini, among others. I will never forget when I visited Anna following her first Broadway show, Mae West’s “Diamond Lil.” I was in the Air Force at the time and, in full uniform, I brushed Miss West — — and she returned the compliment!...
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• • Article: "Berger's Burg: Columnist becomes famous for brushing celebrity elbows"
• • BY: Alex Berger | Columnist
• • Published by Your Nabe — — and also timesledgernews
• • Published on: 21 January 2010
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• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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