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- From: richh@netcom.com (richh)
- Subject: RICHH: TOWER BOOKS?
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- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 02:57:30 GMT
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- Was in this pizza place at 4th & South. Philadelphia Pizza
- Exchange or something. Man and woman in front of me. Touristy.
- They ask one of the pizza guys behind the thing where Tower Books
- was. Tower Books is Between 6th or 7th or so, on South. The one
- pizza guy whispers to the guy next to him, who gives him a funny
- look, then asks the "old man", who was handling the cash register.
- His eyes lit up and he looked at the couple and said, "Albert
- Brooks??!! You want to find some Albert Brooks. I *love* Albert
- Brooks." As if this wasn't incongruous enough, he stopped
- everything and started reeling off the names of all the Albert
- Brooks' movies he could remember.
- Cool, I thought, I'll play.
- "Defending Your Life," he said.
- I countered with "Real Life".
- "Twilight Zone," he said.
- "The Movie," I added and the man who'd been looking for Tower
- Books nodded 'yes'.
- "Private Benjamin," he said, rather smugly.
- "Broadcast News".
- "Modern Romance," he said.
- Guy was good, no question.
- "Lost in America" was my next one.
- "Unfaithfully Yours," said the swarthy pizza man, playing his
- trump card, "and that's all."
- His sons, the pizza makers, high-fived each other, and yelled
- something in Italian at their dad.
- "Um, slow down there, Lapis Lazuli. I wouldn't be counting my
- canolis before the cow's had a sportin' chance to roost. "Milton
- Berle's Mad World of Comedy". 1974."
- "That's not a movie. That was nothing. That doesn't count."
- "Ciao."
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- RICHH
- --buff
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