Is there any truth to the rumor you introduced Lenny Bruce to Groucho Marx?
“From 1962-64 I worked for Steve Allen as his ‘Vice-President of Left Fielders’ – his kook booker. We did five shows a week, and I had to come up with someone off the wall for every show. Then one of the nights we weren’t filming I arranged for stand-up comedian and satirist Paul Krassner to host a show at our theater, and most of the big time comedians in Hollywood were invited. Then near the end of the evening I just happened to be standing close to two people who had never met each other and I said, ‘Lenny met Groucho, Groucho met Lenny.'” I also heard that you dated a movie star for a couple of years? “Yeah, well, sort of. That was in 1965 when I was booking acts on a syndicated rock n’ roll show for ABC TV in the States, and we had three go-go dancers on platforms above the stage, and all the top groups lip-synched to their hits. I went out with one of them. She called herself ‘Terry Garr, Movie Star’ although at the time all she had going was a Dial soap commercial. Later she sho
