Be warned! Douglas Scott Cox is coming to town in a week or so. I feel sorry for the people who work as wait staff in restuarants. Doug makes them earn every penny of their tip.Doug and I go back a long way together as we were at UWEC about the same time and got involved with "The Patio Playhouse", summer theatre at the Kjer, which was quite successful for many years until Wil Denson hung it up and it just sort of died.
We starred in The Odd Couple and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Forum, to name a couple. Doug is by far the funniest physical comedian I have ever worked with. One of his idols was Jack Benny and I think Doug must have studied his every move.
However, Douglas used to drive me nuts because he never really got his lines learned by opening night. Oh, he wasn't the kind to just "go up" when he lost his line -- like a deer in the headlights -- not Doug! Rather, after just a slight hesitation, he would just make up a line and throw it to me, and with it an expression on his face that said: "Go ahead! Make something of that!"
He runs a very successful stereo component store in San Francisco. He even sold a system to Nicholas Cage at one point. My younger brother Anson and I took a trip down the coast on the Starlight Express and stayed with Doug for several days.
It is always nice to be able to stay with someone who lives in the town you have traveled to, as they know where the best restaurants are, as well as the most fun activities.
Doug has put in his order for some "Larry pizza" while he is here. That will save the wait staff somewhere from a lot of grief!
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