Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 1997/11

From: "R Tennenbaum" <rtenn@-----.com>
Subj: Re: Jack Benny
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 01:12:51 -0500

If you're too young to know who Jack Benny is, skip this.

When he was very near retirement, Jack Benny did one of these pension
fund benefits at the tennis stadium in Forest Hills with the New York
Philharmonic.

In the middle of the show at one point Benny is doing a monologue,
when an airplane appears overhead. He stops cold. Ceases altogether
for a full minute, as though he's waiting for something to happen --
meanwhile the audience is starting to get nervous, since after all,
Jack is getting on in years, and who knows what might be happening.
Finally after the plane has disappeared, he pulls one of his faces.

"I just hate it," he says, "when they see even just *a little bit*
for free."

(Brought the house down.)

Rafe T.