As we wait to see if the Writers Guild is going to call a strike today, let's enjoy this. I wrote back here how when I was a wee lad, my Aunt Dot used to always coax me to do my Jimmy Durante impression which to her was the absolute peak in the world of entertainment. Give her the choice of Brando doing Tennessee Williams, Olivier doing Shakespeare, Sinatra doing Cole Porter, Caruso doing Verdi or Evanier doing Durante, she would have gone for the kid in an instant.
Reader-of-this-blog Curtis Burga found this clip of some upstart doing my act in the 1994 movie, Greedy. I was about this good except that I didn't do it in costume, I didn't have an accompanist and I sounded more like Durante — or maybe Doggie Daddy — than this copycat did…