Marge Cassingham Pianist
Who gave me my dry wit? This woman right here.
From This is True for 28 January 2024
entertainment
TV, Film, and Music producers, directors, arrangers. (Writers are separate)
Bill Fries “C.W. McCall”
A TV commercial maker turned music star.
From This is True for 3 April 2022
Johnny Thompson Magician’s Magician
Thompson was the magician who coached Penn and Teller.
From This is True for 17 March 2019
Bob Einstein Comic actor
Einstein vowed never to work in comedy, until he got an inside look at what the business was really like.
From This is True for 6 January 2019
Mai Tai Sing Stereotype buster
She fought “racist preconceptions of what Asian Americans were about and what they could accomplish.”
From This is True for 15 July 2018
Martin Bregman Film producer
He switched careers to help an actor he discovered: Al Pachino.
From This is True for 17 June 2018
Paul Junger Witt TV producer
Witt rose to be a highly regarded TV and film director, and then producer.
From This is True for 29 April 2018
Benjamin Melniker Film producer
“‘Legendary’ is the only word capable of describing the man.”
From This is True for 4 March 2018
Rose Marie Lifelong Entertainer
Rose Marie hit the stage almost as soon as she could walk.
From This is True for 31 December 2017
Howard Gottfried Film producer
Gottfried and Chayefsky are both best known for their biggest hit together: 1976’s Network.
From This is True for 10 December 2017