Remember Me When I'm Gone

Curtain Call ACTORS AND ACTRESSES ALAN ALDA Here Lies Anonymous--Our Greatest Author. ALAN ALDA is a multi-award-winning actor, writer, and director. He first appeared on film in 1962 in Gone Are the Days. He is perhaps best recognized for his portrayal of wisecracking Army surgeon Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972 through 1983. JAYNE MEADOWS ALLEN No, no, my dear ones, do not weep! There is no cause to grieve. For I am by his side again, My dear beloved, Steve. JAYNE MEADOWS ALLEN is an Emmy Award-winning actress. She and her late husband, Steve Allen, were married for nearly fifty years and starred in numerous television programs together, including Steve Allen's memorable PBS miniseries, Meeting of Minds. JUNE ALLYSON When I was a young girl I loved to watch Ginger Rogers dance. I would watch her over and over and eventually learned many of her dance steps. When I went to my first audition, the steps I learned from Ginger were the ones I used. They hired me on the spot. My advice to anyone who has a desire to be a dancer or be in the movies is to find someone they really admire, watch them and learn from them. Success will be yours. JUNE ALLYSON is an award-winning actress, singer, and dancer. She has appeared in numerous movies including The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story, co-starring James Stewart, as well as The Girl in White and They Only Kill Their Masters. She has recently appeared in various television commercials. ED ASNER The possible conversations heard at the passing of Ed Asner: I had no idea that in his later years he wore a bald cap! He wrote every word that ever came out of his mouth. He spoke of having learned his cavalry technique under Jeb Stuart sans the cavalier peccadillos of that gentleman--and later applying them to the Red Army Cavalry. Though he spoke twenty-seven languages, he seldom had occasion to use them, perhaps because ten of them were obscure Chinese dialects. As a child he knew Etruscan but he forgot it. From those savants he trusted and occasionally entrusted certain confidences, it might be gathered that his rather lengthy sojourn on earth (if his figures are to be believed) was short in terms of his life and that even more astounding, his life did not commence and will not be terminated on earth. In other words we have what would be called an ET here. Opening the storage locker next to Walt Disney's may reveal that Ed Asner has left the planet. Requiescat Pacem. ED ASNER is a multiple Emmy Award-winning actor. His portrayal of Lou Grant, head of the WJM newsroom, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show earned him three Emmys during the show's seven-season run. He also received an Emmy for his villainous appearance on the miniseries Roots. MAX BAER JR. Birth, Life, Death . . . Whatever The shell of life is broken and the air of death is breathed, A cry of being is uttered by the hand of an expertise. The warmth and quiet gone forever, the fight and toil here. How much better it would have been for all if he had stayed in there. For the future holds a tiny fist that grasps and strikes the air, But never ever wins the war, just slowly loses hair. We enter naked, whole & pure and forever is our wish, But we exit thus not quite the same for life is but a swish. So come ye all to eat my fruit and share with me my lusts, For it won't be long my brothers, before we turn to dust. (c) 2002 Max Baer, Jr. MAX BAER JR. starred as Jethro in the CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies. He has gone on to writeKing, Larry is the author of 'Remember Me When I'm Gone', published 2004 under ISBN 9780385501750 and ISBN 0385501757.