Comedian, photographer and filmmaker. Watch my comedy special on Amazon Prime: https://t.co/vprNMmdlc6
Dec 1, 2020 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Happy Birthday Richard Pryor! Here’s a story in memory of him, my father and Mitzi Shore owner of @TheComedyStore. My father was a projectionist, owned a drive-in movie theater for some years, and for a spell worked at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood when I was a kid.
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I didn’t spend a lot of time with him growing up. But the little time I did, it involved running around the basement of the Chinese Theater, learning how to splice and glue reels together, and picking up garbage at the drive-in during the day...
Sep 4, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
When I was 6 my uncle took my mother, brother and myself to pick up my dad at the Presidio. Him smiling from ear to ear as we were in my dad's Plymouth Road Runner Coupe, he had dutifully tended to as it sat waiting for my father's return from 2 tours of duty to Vietnam.
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When we finally saw him he looked so fragile carrying his duffel as he walked towards us. We couldn't even hug him he reeked so badly from infected boils that covered his entire body, caused by Dioxin the main contaminant of Agent Orange.
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