The name sounds familiar, but I’m not seeing the face that goes with it. A paywall wouldn’t let me access the article.
Maybe I’m thinking of David Brenner.
He was an interesting character (maybe his real self) on Curb your Enthusiasm. This was years ago when I saw his episodes and he didn’t particularly look well then. RIP Richard.
I’ve only seen him in a few things, but the first was in the early 80s, right after I’d moved to LA, Diary of a Young Comic. It is about him moving to LA, living on nothing, and bombing at open mike nights.
In on scene he has totally lost it, and is venting to his friend for about ten minutes, and then his friend tells him that his venting was funnier than anything he’d been doing in front of an audience, and he ought to go with it - which he did, and it worked.
What else I remembered was it was the first thing I’d seen that mentioned an obscure, but real, location in LA — the Rent-a-Wreck on the corner of Bundy Drive and Wilshire Blvd.
I had considered renting a car there, but didn’t. A couple of years later my girlfriend lived off San Vincente, and I’d drive up Bundy to get there. Eight years after that, Bundy Drive, and in particular that eight or ten block stretch, became famous in the OJ trial.
Funny guy. He was leftish, like most people in show business, but he will be missed.
I recall him. Sort of a “Greek Chorus” -Hypochondia mixed with bitter humor, in other words, a real funny guy.
Anytime you need 3 or 4 back surgeries done, you’re in trouble. Ive only had one, and while it cured my major issue of Spinal Stenosis, it also left me with a tendency to bend forward as I walk. Even in year 2024, back surgery is not an exact science.