Jim David sure made the most of his pandemic time. He got the break he wanted, and when he was done resting, he took some incidental recordings of his final show before lockdown and discovered a wealth of material that had never been publicly released, edited it together and made a brand new comedy album, his fifth, appropriately (and accurately) titled GAY JOKES FOR STRAIGHT CRUISERS. Surprise of surprises, the album went to number one in sales on iTunes overnight, and the thirty-four year veteran of the comedy industry was feeling the love from the fans.
One of those fans is this guy right here, who first saw Jim on Broadway in a much-maligned musical about hookers in Las Vegas, but who has also seen Jim perform his stand-up comedy many times, especially when we were both working a cruise ship together. During that trip, I caught his act as often as I could and even spent a few nights at the bar with him, drinking in the natural wit that the audiences don t get to see. So, how cou
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By Jane Sumner
Special to the American-Statesman
Those of us who gathered to say goodbye on the grassy slope of Republic Hill at the Texas State Cemetery on May 12, 2009, thought we’d heard the last from legendary author Edwin “Bud” Shrake. We were wrong.
Eleven years later, Shrake, dubbed “the lion of Texas letters,” has come roaring back with a crisp, wild and witty novel inspired by his real-life manic adventures as a screenwriter in 1970s and ‘80s Tinseltown.
A riveting read, Hollywood Mad Dogs is the same kind of “eyewitness fiction” as his superb incendiary novel Strange Peaches, about the right-wing hate and hysteria in Dallas before and after the Kennedy assassination.
1772 – The first traveler s cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, are issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.
1773 – The hymn that became known as Amazing Grace , then titled 1 Chronicles 17:16–17 , is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
1788 – First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
1804 – French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black-majority republic and second independent country in North America after the United States.