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The tots, some of them barely weaned and wheeled to the show in strollers, were wide-eyed. And it was clear from the way most of them mouthed the words and extended innocent out-loud greetings to Barney and his pals that they had logged many hours in front of the tube, seeing purple. The show has become the most highly rated preschool TV offering, with an estimated weekly viewership of With all the toy spin-offs, for a time that big chain was thinking about renaming itself Barneys R Us just kidding, folks.

The purple creature with a green belly, green spots on his back and yellow toenails is always introduced as a stuffed animal. He then magically poofs up to become an oversized imaginary friend of children. In the live show, the magic takes place under a dry-ice fog, with an announcer noting: "Today's appearance of Barney is made possible by your imagination!

Suddenly the big guy emerges from the mist, and to chiming, bouncy music canned, of course he starts singing, "If You're Happy and You Know It. The city national tour of "Barney's Big Surprise!

A low point in CA and US politics. Barefaced, city-sanctioned political violence just because they can. Anyone stating anything but disgust for this whole sorted affair is propagandized, pure and simple.

Imagine if it were white men waiting outside a DEM political rally attended by mostly Blacks and the cops just watched the mob, which was lying in wait for hours, chase, corner, egg, and verbally accost small black women. As much as I despise what SJPD and the local government filth conspired to do, it will be very hard to prove and highly unlikely that those who orchestrated this criminal attack will not face justice.

Wait here come one through my printer! Ba, ba, ba, but some police cars say to provide and protect safety for our citizens.

Where did it go wrong. They should all be fired. Who would west coast outhouse. I cannot speak to or condone any of the attacks that occurred but I did witness one personally. The woman in the Trump 45 jersey who was egged assumed that because she was walking behind a line of police and behind a barricade—- she could do whatever she liked to express her First Amendment rights.

This included but was not limited to: flipping the bird to protesters, shouting that they were illegal and should go back to Mexico, pointing and taunting. When she got to the end of the line of police and the barricades separating her from protesters ended, she was surrounded by the same people she had just insulted. She was followed, cornered and egged. In this one instance, she poked the bear, and the bear poked back.

Justice Ginsberg takes the high ground and declines to condone attacks on Trump supporters. Does that mean all of the 2A people now get to poke back too? I was there. I did not say anything to anyone as I tried to get back home. Gary was a New York agent who had great contacts and a winning way. He brought a sense of whimsy and joy to the work and took care of as much of the dealmaking as he could, coming to me to try to strategize or sign off. His one curiosity was a briefcase that he carried with him everywhere as if he had the atomic bomb codes assigned to him.

He never let it out of his sight. As a fast-talking New Yorker, he could amble into and out of delicate relationships with a certain ease and a wink of Con -fidence.

For example, Eric Burdon was threatening not to perform on the last night of the production because he felt there was a problem with air filtration at Foxwoods. His throat was impinged upon. Gary and I listened. He came back a short time later and assured Eric that he had talked to the engineering department at Foxwoods, and a refiltration of the air was in process. Eric inhaled, as a demonstration of his seriousness about the situation, and declared that he could tell the difference.

Problem solved. In working with musical artists, I learned that egos are enormous, and concerns are varied and unpredictable.

While loving the work, I was always on pins and needles that anything could go wrong. It often starts in the negotiation phase or, in virtually all cases, during the production. Assuredly, something will. How you de-escalate those situations is key.

Or that Freddie of Freddie and the Dreamers would have a heart attack on the flight back to England and threaten to sue us? Peter Noone, who performed and hosted the show for us, was great to work with. Many of the acts we had on various compilations were only legitimized and authenticated by the lead singer. It is so much harder if the surviving member, or the one still owning the name, is the bass player who never sang or, worse yet, someone who joined the band ten years into their run and somehow goes out using their name.

In I was on the prowl looking for a smash musical special from my era. In looking at stars who had not done a PBS pledge special, I considered whether the performer still had commercial appeal or if it had ebbed for a younger generation but still burned bright in the hearts and minds of baby boomers. Carole King was one such performer. James Taylor, her close friend and collaborator, maintained and grew his audience with constant touring and reinvention.

Of course nothing appealed to her audience more than her smash album of , Tapestry.