Let’s Talk Brother Theodore
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His biography is interesting. He was a Holocaust survivor, a chess hustler, and a monologist. He gave up his stage career and then was convinced to go back to it in later life. He claimed Albert Einstein was a family friend and helped him emigrate to America.
Ted Nugent is no Theodore Isidore Gottlieb. Nugent wrote a hit song about bacteria, the other gave monologues about pimples. One ate junk food to avoid fighting in war, the other was prisoner in Dachau. Gottlieb was a city-bound existentialist and a depressive. Nugent is more of an outdoors nature guy.
Now when it comes to Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka (Ted Knight), now you’re talking. He didn’t go to a death camp, but he earned 5 battle stars in WWII. Knight was a talented amateur ventriloquist, Gottlieb claimed to beat Stanford professors at chess while working as a janitor.
I’m afraid the legend of Brother Theodore is dying here. His life was long and interesting but he died here fast.
Here’s another. His name was Wolfgang Zilzer. Another German speaking Jewish emigre, he avoided the Shoah by leaving Germany in 1930. He appeared in many films under the stage name Paul Andor. He was in Casablanca! But we also know him as “Henry” whom Letterman fired many times in a long running gag:
Here’s another. His name was Wolfgang Zilzer. Another German speaking Jewish emigre, he avoided the Shoah by leaving Germany in 1930. He appeared in many films under the stage name Paul Andor. He was in Casablanca! But we also know him as “Henry” whom Letterman fired many times in a long running gag:
it's a wolf pack if they hang out together all the time. It's a wolf gang when they participate in racketeering together.
I wouldn't consider that even wolf adjacent certainly some type of weasel would be involved.