[78-L] Total Recall: Artie Shaw

[Michael Biel]

From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
> I was told by his secretary that I caught him at a particularly
> malleable moment and was lucky. He enjoyed talking about Bix so
> much with someone who was interested in what he had to say and
> wasn't a fawning moron, that he was OK with signing anything
> I put in front of him.    Cary Ginell

Did you ask him for a toenail?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 


>> Finally, he blurted out angrily: “What are you—a bunch of savages?
>> Do you also collect toenails?” To a guy standing next to me I said:
>> “Well if he won’t give autographs, ask for his toenails.”
>> Geoffrey Wheeler