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In reply to the discussion: What have you done to earn money in your life? Here's my list. [View all]DFW
(54,739 posts)27. Theo is a living legend, in music as well as theater
He is ill now, and is now 91, but I was at his 85th birthday concert ("the first 85 years" at Carnegie Hall in NYC, and he sang like he was half that.
One time when we were together for New Year's, he suddenly said to me "get your guitar, we will go sing Russian songs." So I got my guitar, brought my wife along, and in a nearly deserted conference room in the Charleston Place Hotel in South Carolina, Theo and I did duets of Russian folk songs in a concert that would have been a sellout in New York (because of Theo, not me!). Instead, the audience consisted of my wife and two South Carolina janitors who commented, "I don't know what y'all are singing, but y'all sure do know how to sing it!"
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And yet, there you were. I hope you felt as equal as you all looked! (P.S. I LOVED Theodore Bikel!
WinkyDink
Jul 2015
#80
tutor, fast food, hotel house keeper, random office jobs before long time career
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Jul 2015
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LiberalEsto
Jul 2015
#59
Started working at 14 in the local flower shop, then in the antiques shop that it transmogrified
underahedgerow
Jul 2015
#54
Some people want to be good at math; some at science. But EVERYBODY wishes they could draw, so good
WinkyDink
Jul 2015
#71
The joke is, if it dosn't get over your head then there is nothing to worry about
nolabels
Jul 2015
#64