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Article: MILTON BERLE AT HOME IN THE CATSKILLS.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 8, 1991
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Byline: Ron Grossman Chicago Tribune
To mark his 75th year in show business, Milton Berle, the onetime king of TV, received shtick instead of a scepter.
Sunday, he and his comedic buddies returned to the Concord Hotel, one of the last of the legendary Catskill Mountain resorts where young performers, including Berle, once found steppingstones to Broadway and Hollywood. Billed as a "roast," the fete wound up as a schmaltzy celebration of a vanished era in entertainment history, punctuated by jokes already old when the guest of honor was young.
Freddie Roman, the master of ceremonies, noted that the comedians seated alongside the 82- year-old ...
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March 27, 2002 ;
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... ... first great television comedian, Milton Berle, died at his Los Angeles home Wednesday at the age of 93. Berle had been under hospice care for the past ... century ago at the dawn of the medium, Berle's "Texaco Star Theatre" had higher ...
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