The first of June 2010, my friend Earl Kress and I went out to the TV Academy for a special event honoring Bob Newhart for 50 years in show business. We had tickets, we got there on time and my friend Jack Riley, who was on the panel, had arranged for us to get seats in the area where they seated people who were guests of the folks onstage. Somehow, we didn't get in. The event was mobbed with Very Important People (i.e., more important to someone than Earl and me) who had shown up without tickets and…well, we didn't get in.
Here's a video of what we didn't get in to see. It runs two hours and gets a bit tedious at times but there's enough wonderful material in there to make it worth the journey…
