Here's a scene you may remember from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World — the demolition of a service station by Jonathan Winters and two attendants. The attendant on the right is the brilliant comic actor Arnold Stang. The attendant on the left is the also-brilliant Marvin Kaplan…and this is a plug for Marvin's appearance tomorrow on Stu's Show, the "must listen" talk show on Shokus Internet Radio.
Marvin has had a long, wonderful career, appearing in countless TV shows and movies. I'll mention two roles. One was his recurring part as a diner patron on the long-running series, Alice. Another was his expert voice work as Choo-Choo on the Hanna-Barbera series, Top Cat. (Mr. Stang, of course, played Top Cat.) He has also been a mover and shaker in actors' rights groups and a special champion of "the little guy" in actors' unions that could easily forget about such people if they didn't have a Marvin Kaplan there to speak up.
I've worked with Marvin a few times on cartoon shows and he's a wonderful gentleman who makes everything he says sound interesting. (I also saw him once give an amazing dramatic performance in a production of The Dybbuk. He can do a lot more than tear down gas stations.)
And like I said, he's guesting tomorrow with your genial host, Stuart Shostak, along with equally-genial co-host Earl Kress. It all happens live (so you can call in with questions) from 4 PM to 6 PM Pacific Time, three hours later if you're in that silly time zone that's three hours later. To access it, go during those hours to the website for Shokus Internet Radio and click where they tell you to click. The show reruns throughout the week but I know you. You'd rather hear it live. There are also other fine programs to listen to there, by the way.