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FRIARS CLUB
Soup’s On With
Red-Hot Gags
Story and Photos by Tim Boxer
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Mickey Freeman observed, “After 30 years on television, Soupy
Sales looks the same as when he started.” Except now Soupy
walks with a cane. No matter, he was in high spirits as he signed
book after book at a party the New York Friars Club threw for his
book, Soupy
Sez: My Life and Zany Times (M. Evans
Publishers).
“All the profits from the sale of his book
tonight will go to charity,” Mickey declared. “Soupy wants to
finish his basement.”
Barry Dougherty, editor of the Friars
magazine, The Epistle, laughed along with Nipsey Russell,
Kenny Kramer, Bobby Remsen, Charlie Calls, Marvin Scott, and Vincent
Pastore (Pussy of The Sopranos).
With such a typical Friars crowd, all the old
chestnuts were dug out. (Actually, I was disappointed. I didn’t
get a pie!
“Your book saved my house,” Mickey said to
the author. “I had a card table with one short leg.”
Serving as emcee for the event, Mickey said,
“They say beauty is skin deep, but ugly is Charlie
Callas.”
Soupy’s book is a riotous account of his long
successful career in Hollywood and New York. The book’s full of
words of wisdom: “Always buy thermometers in the winter time.
They’re much lower then.”
Milton Supman was born in Franklinton,
North Carolina, “primarily because I wanted to be near my
mother.” His two brothers already had their nicknames – Leonard
was Hambone and Jack was Chickenbone, so Milton became
Soupbone.
His autobiography is highly readable, quite
humorous. This book, from M. Evans and Company, is not only from
Sales but also for sale. Scratch that. Just Buy
it!
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