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He prepared me very well for this day, but no matter how much you prepare it still hurts," Sandy Hackett said as he arrived at his mother's house in Los Angeles Doing so, he moved on to Los Angeles, where he scored at a small showcase club He didn't know how not to be funny "If I was going to a corporate job somewhere, I'd call him up, and he'd rattle off 10 jokes," his son recalled He was my best friend "It's a damn circle," he joked But Hackett declined, believing he could develop his own comedy style He was 78 "He was one of the greatest ever He'd call and say: 'A guy walks into a bar The younger Hackett, who is also a comedian, said he had driven to Los Angeles from his Las Vegas home as soon as he got the word of his father's death Hackett was invited to join the Three Stooges when "Curly" Howard, the bald-headed member of the comedy team, suffered a stroke in 1946 The cause of his death was not immediately known; his son said Hackett had diabetes â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? EDITOR'S NOTE: Bob Thomas has been covering Hollywood for The Associated Press since 1943 In 1954, playwright Sidney Kingsley persuaded Hackett to appear on Broadway in "Lunatics and Lovers Hackett was married to the former Sherry Dubois, whom he met at the Concord Hotel in the Catskills His career grew with appearances on the TV shows of Jack Paar, Arthur Godfrey and others When he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame a few years ago, he quipped that he had left Brooklyn "to get away from the subway" only to discover that his star had been placed above the one in Los Angeles Hackett died at his Southern California beach house either late Sunday or early Monday, Sandy Hackett told The Associated Press on Monday night " He was also willing to share his material with others "Compared to motion pictures, I'm very mild these days," he remarked in 1996 " He also appeared on the New York stage in "Viva Madison Avenue" (1960) and "I Had a Ball" (1964) He was a terrific father " Among his other movies: "Fireman Save My Child," "God's Little Acre," "All Hands on Deck," "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm," "Muscle Beach Party," "Loose Shoes," "Scrooged" and Disney's animated "The Little Mermaid," as the voice of Scuttle " He turned down many offers to star in another TV series, complaining that he could rarely get along with network executives He played legendary comic Lou Costello in the 1978 film "Bud and Lou " Brooks Atkinson, writing in The New York Times, described Hackett as "a large, soft, messy comic with a glib tongue and a pair of inquiring eyes Funnyman Buddy Hackett Dies at 78 Jul 1, 4:20 AM EST Buddy Hackett, the squat, round, rubbery-faced funnyman who appeared for more than 50 years as a top act in nightclubs, Broadway shows, on television and in such movies as "The Music Man," "The Love Bug" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," has died, his son said " His performances in those days were noted for their prolific use of four-letters words at a time when that just wasn't done Playing for small money on the Borscht Circuit for New York City vacationers in the Catskill Mountains, he learned to get laughs with his complaints about being short, fat and Jewish '" Hackett had flopped using joke writers, and he soon came to realize that only he could write for Buddy Hackett Soon he was making big money across the country, and audiences called for his most noted routine, the Chinese waiter "That ends the meeting," he once said of network officials telling him how to structure a comedy show He was born Leonard Hacker in a Jewish section of New York City's borough of Brooklyn on Aug "He was born funny," his son said Monday "It was in his bones He made numerous guest appearances on other shows, appearing in recent years on "Just Shoot Me" and "Sabrina The Teenage Witch" and, in a recurring bit called "Tuesdays With Buddy," on "The Late Late Show With Craig Kilborn " The comedian appeared on television from the medium's beginnings and starred in the short-lived series "Stanley" from 1956 to 1957 "He never called just to say hello He is survived by her and three children, Ivy Miller of Denver; Lisa Hackett of Los Angeles; and Sandy Hackett of Las Vegas That was a necessity to offset the taunts about his roly-poly shape 31, 1924 For a time he apprenticed in his father's upholstery shop, but at school he found he had a talent for making his fellow students laugh After graduating from New York's New Utrecht High School, where he had played on the football team, Hacker spent three years in the military during World War II, then reinvented himself as Buddy Hackett, standup comedian In the beginning his material was suitable for family audiences, but in later years nightclubs advertised his show "For Mature Audiences Only Hackett made his film debut in 1953 with "Walking My Baby Back Home Soon he was earning top money in Las Vegas, Florida and Las Vegas " While she was well-known as a model before the hit, the show has provided new avenues of work for Hilton "People from the city will be like, `Oh my God, I cannot believe you did that,' and people from the country think it's funny because they do it every day And Hilton, in a pink and red sundress with a flower in her hair, is posing for cameras on a South Beach hotel balcony But Hilton says the late-night party scene is losing it's appeal They have to deal with their own wardrobes, hair and makeup The shiny metallic trailer is hitched to the back "People who don't know me or haven't met me they'll assume she's spoiled or this or that," Hilton said It seems fun Filming was to begin in the next few days; the show airs in June "I don't like going out anymore "The farthest I've driven is from L They drew laughs from viewers who were amazed that Hilton and Richie had never held a regular job or seen a paycheck, much less know what do with one The pretty young ladies broke free from their sheltered upbringings, working odd jobs milking cows and hawking burgers at a fast food restaurant while living with a family in ultra-rural Altus, Ark "The worst thing was working at the dairy farm, cause that was, like, our first job," Hilton said "That's what people will think because of where I come from She also became an inadvertent Internet icon when a homemade sex video she shot with her then-boyfriend circulated online , population 817 "I've never been on a road trip anywhere," Hilton, 23, told The Associated Press on Thursday, sitting in her plush hotel room bed They did manage to bake a pie, but the family's dog ate most of it before it could be presented at a local festival "I hated the cow smell ' Hilton and Richie will travel throughout the southern United States, towing the live-in trailer from Miami Beach to Beverly Hills You're so sweet to Palm Springs, which takes like two hours " In "The Simple Life 2," they'll stay with several different families in a continuation of the theme that made the first season a success The pink pickup truck is gassed up As for her public image, Hilton says she may be misunderstood "Everyone likes it because it's for all ages," Hilton says Paris Hilton Primps for 'Simple' Trip <EM>By Adrian Sainz Associated Press</EM> In the sequel to Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's hit Fox reality show "The Simple Life," the socialites-turned-TV stars are driving themselves on a 30-day cross-country trip with no money, credit cards, cell phones or boyfriends I really can't even hang out with my friends very much anymore " "It's going to be definitely more interesting and more adventurous because last time, we were just stuck in Arkansas with a family, but this time it's going to be different families every episode," Hilton says If the pickup breaks down, it's their problem Let the road trip begin " Hilton's social life is regular fodder for tabloids, TV shows and Web sites Jon Murray, the show's executive producer, says there will be eight episodes, double the number from the first season It's not that much fun," Hilton says Murray hopes they will again charm TV audiences And there'll be plenty of small-town fun, Murray says " Hilton, the leggy blonde hotel heiress, and Richie, the equally blonde daughter of singer Lionel Richie, helped make the first season of "The Simple Life" a huge success for Fox " Murray says "the girls" will have jobs set up for them, but will be on their own for almost everything else "They're outlandish sometimes, they're foolish sometimes, they're a little clueless sometimes, but they really are nice and they're not mean spirited in the fun they're having Every time I meet someone or people talk to me, they're like "You're completely the opposite of what I thought "Since the show came out, I can't really have fun anymore because people coming up every minute and, are like, `Oh, can I have a picture A It was gross She's recording a CD and has acting jobs lined up "Paris and Nicole are so full of energy in life," Murray says |
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