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Vote: | I can't work places like Vegas or the Catskills where people are belching. Maybe I belong in colleges. At least if I die, I die in front of intelligent people who know what I'm talking about. |
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Vote: | I think of my relationship with any audience as a love affair. It lasts only a little while but I always look forward to a happy ending. For both of us. |
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Born Richard Schulefand (December 1, 1923, actor/comedian Dick Shawn is best remembered for his roles as Sylvester Marcus, bohemian beach bum son of Mrs. Marcus (Ethel Merman), in Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and as Lorenzo St. DuBois (known by his initials L.S.D.), the flower power hippie who lands the role of Adolf Hitler in the musical Springtime for Hitler, the play within the movie, The Producers, the first feature-length movie directed by Mel Brooks.
Shawn's other movie roles were not spectacular, and his continued success was due to his one-man stage shows. He died onstage on April 17, 1987, during a monologue about the Holocaust. Due to the nature of his act, audience members were unaware at first that he had suffered a massive heart attack.
External Links
"Dick Shawn" Internet Movie database
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