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Host TJ Savino weaves the memories of a dark and dangerous time, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the fear that engulfed the world on the brink of nuclear destruction, with the comedy of Allan Sherman who at the time was … Continue reading
In Part II of “Overweight Sensation” host TJ Savino interviews biographer Mark Cohen in San Francisco who unearths the painful irony: Alan Sherman’s love for his Jewish/Yiddish background and his want-to-be American parent’s contempt for it. Cohen explores Sherman’s Hollywood … Continue reading