Saturday 9

 

Easter Parade

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Saturday 9: Easter Parade

Revised and revived from the archives

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) This song is best known from the 1948 movie of the same name, but it was originally written for a 1933 Broadway play called As Thousands Cheer. In the play, a young man reads about the parade in a New York newspaper and decides to go and show his lady love off to parade goers. What's the most recent parade you attended?

I don’t think I’ve been to a parade in decades … when my kids were in high school they marched in their Honecoming parades.  That was always fun.

And what else was fun?  Working in lower Manhattan and attending a ticker tape parade.  I web5 to a lot of those!  The 1986 Mets victory parade was memorable. So was the one for the Vietnam veterans.  I think I may have gone to two Yankees parades.  And the one for John Glenn.

2) On Broadway, the song was performed by Clifton Webb. He'd had a busy stage career, appearing in musicals as well as plays by Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward, but when he was in his mid-50s, he was considered too old to be a leading man. Broadway offers stopped coming. He was unexpectedly cast by Otto Preminger for the film noir Laura and a new career was born. He worked steadily in Hollywood for 20 years and earned three Oscar nominations. Tell us about a time you were grateful your life took an unanticipated turn.

Can’t think of anything right now.

3) Today he's fondly remembered by the students at UCLA who have benefited from The Clifton Webb Scholarship of the Arts. If you could give an endowment to a school or charity, what would you like it to be used for?

We make small donations to several types of nonprofit — we support several museums and a zoo, as well as cancer research, a food bank, veterans organizations and a couple of Jewish charities.  All very worthy causes.  Hard to pick just one. 

But since you asked … I was a fan of the late Harry Chaplin.  He devoted his life to raising money to feed the world.  He founded Long Island Cares, it’s a food bank, of course.  Feeding hungry people just seems like 5ge right thing to do.

 

4) The biggest chocolate Easter egg was made in Italy, measured 34 feet tall and weighed a staggering 15,000 lbs. Do you think it's possible to have too much chocolate?
  

There’s no such thing as “too much chocolate”.

5) After chocolate, the top-selling Easter candy is Peeps Marshmallow Chicks. They're so popular that they were once the subject of a Jeopardy clue. Do you often watch Jeopardy?

Everyone knows that they should not try to call my house between 7 PM and 7:30 PM weeknights because Jeopardy!   is on.

6) Jelly beans are also popular this time of year. In a 2024 poll, jelly bean fans responded that black licorice is their favorite flavor. It's Crazy Sam's least favorite. How about you? What jelly bean flavor is at the top of your list, and which is at the bottom?

I don’t like the black ones.  I like all the other flavors.  I don’t really have a favorite. Drew brought home a huge jar of the Starburst jelly beans …

7) We've been talking a lot about sweets this morning. The only holiday that generates more candy sales is Halloween. When do you eat more candy: Easter or Halloween?

Halloween.

 

8) According to the National Retail Federation, Americans are doing more of their holiday shopping this year at discount "dollar stores" than at department stores like Target and Walmart. Do you often make trips to the "dollar store?" If yes, what do you usually pick up there?

I don’t shop in the dollar store often.  In November  I bought some glass mugs.

 
 9) Easter is considered the season of rebirth. What makes you feel refreshed or rejuvenated?

A walk on the beach always refreshes me.

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