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Talking with Carol Patrol - Actors Temple February 12th also Paul Sladkus to perform · Good News To Go: Peace, Love & HOPE

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  All right, Hi, this is Paul Slatkis. I'm speaking to my good
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  friend Carol Astro. Hi, Carol, how are you hi? There?
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  Carol is producing a show again and you can't miss a Caroil Astro show.
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  She's working with a Philip Reisman and Carol Astro present a Meaningful Monday Special series
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  at are Beloved Actors Temple. That's Monday, February twelfth at six thirty to
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  eight pm, an homage to the visual and performing arts. So Carol,
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  tell us about this show and you make the greatest shows. Yeah, and
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  you care about everybody in the theater. I'm always so nervous. I never
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  know if it's the right time or anything. But that's the way I am
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  as a producer and also as a talent or. I don't know if I
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  have any talent, but a performer and a producer, I'm always very nervous
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  because I want it to be good. If people to see a show,
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  especially at our temple, then it has to be good. And not everybody
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  who will feel that way, but at least it has such great people who
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  are giving their heart and soul for our Meaningful Monday Series. So it's not
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  really a fundraiser because I'm not charging very much. I just want people to
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  come in and see what we have to offer. There so much talent in
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  New York, both the visual and the performing talent categories, and we have
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  fabulous people, some of whom actually like you, who belong to the Temple,
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  are extremely talented. So I'm exploiting that because I don't have to worry
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  about their wanting to perform to do so much good for the temple. Everybody
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  does, but especially those who are on the board and those were members.
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  Well the temple itself give a little background. I mean, you've been on
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  before and a lot of people know that the place, but you know,
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  we're saying the Actors Temple. It actually had a religious name as well.
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  And it's been around how many years now, one hundred something. Yes,
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  we're one hundred and seven years old. The building itself is about one hundred
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  and one years old. But Temple Ezrat Israel aka also the Actors Temple one
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  hundred and seven years. It's hard to believe that something has withstood time as
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  beautifully and as meaningfully as our little temple, and it was started as a
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  very Orthodox temple. Our balcony upstairs was for the women, but we had
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  some very famous people who were members. They were actors like Sophie Tucker,
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  and she's the one who decided with a friend of hers that they were not
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  going to negotiate the steps upstairs. They were going to sit downstairs with the
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  men. They were good enough to do that, and they did it,
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  and bingo, we became a reform temple. Thank you Sophia Tucker. But
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  we have members like Al Jolson and sports figures, so many people in show
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  business who Milton Burro for instance, so many from the Friars Club who were
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  the comedians who were members. So it was Milton Borough, Red Buttons,
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  the three Stooges came. Two of them were Jewish, one eventually was not,
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  but they came to raise money and they prayed at our temple every Friday
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  night. Milton Burle was there to have his minion to say prayers, and
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  it was a phenomenal place to hang out, not just for show business people
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  as we are today, but for anyone who chose to practice their religion on
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  Shabbat Friday nights, Saturday mornings and when they had fundraisers and shows. It's
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  true today still today the same and Rogers Saturday Morning, and Rogers and Hammerstein
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  could back them all up, you know whatever. We even did a show
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  about Richard Rogers. We called it Love Songs, and they were everything that
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  he had written. An Anna Bergmann was the star of that show and it
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  was about five years ago. Oops, there's my good had a show.
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  Business is calling. That's all right, give us the details. It says,
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  we read he monologue. Original music performances, all from a professional community,
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  absolutely magnificent, original paintings. What does that mean? Yes, well,
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  there are so many artists. I mean this is a visual as well
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  as performing arts. So the artists are, for instance, Bobby Bank,
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  who is a fabulous photographer. He's going to bring his pictures for sale.
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  Then there's Rowhemei Vinica, who who is living in my building as a matter
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  fact, she just came here from India and invited me to see her paintings.
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  She's a prolific painter, modern art, colorful, gorgeous, so she's
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  bringing some of her paintings. Then there's Jim Brochhoe who was also one of
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  our entertainers and a painter, and he does things in penny ink, little
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  miniature things that are so exquisite. You can't imagine how he's able to have
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  the eyesight to do these little wonderful miniature paintings. And we have I don't
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  want to leave anybody else. Toby Bush, did we freeze? I think
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  we froze a little bit. There's a fashion of a second. It was
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  a beautiful freeze though. You look marvelous and I looked, okay, thank
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  you. So there's also Toby Bush and a wonderful painter by the name of
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  John Manitarian. He has a show right now. And Jim Broshoe, Jane
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  Goldman, wow On and Rohini are in the gallery and they're right next door
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  on what is it fifty forty ninth or fiftieth. If anybody's interested, just
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  have them call me. But it's forty ninth and fiftieth, just up the
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  street from Sacks fifth Avenue, in a beautiful old building with a gallery that's
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  one gallery and a half beautiful. There this this producer, this woman in
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  front of me here is a producer of producers, and she also fills up
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  houses for many, many years with people coming here. One of my clients
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  who wants tickets to a brand new show suffraject judge and to enjoy Broadway and
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  off Broadway for so many years. You know that all the producers of the
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  producers love this lady because she knows how to fill up seats as well to
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  great shows. I want you to know, and I'm bragging right now,
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  but my nickname with some is the Goddess of group sales. Well, I
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  think it was a properly stated all good Carol, Well, thank you.
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  Anything else we should know? I mean, it's it's a very exciting event.
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  Tickets are only thirty five dollars. Come on. I mean, it's
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  a it's a it's a donation in essence to the to our wonderful temple,
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  a temple that then also donates. They've donated to concerns in this whole wide
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  world and taken in taking in the homes. We had a fundraiser for Ukraine,
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  we have a fundraiser for actors. We just do whatever we can for
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  our community. And it means so much to have people come and enjoy the
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  talent and the religion that we have, which is reformed. Come in be
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  Jewish and a great Rabbi Rabbit jil Hausman. Everybody is it's a it's a
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  we call it in the others we call it a Hamiship place. It's a
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  very warm temple as a have assign that side. It's a good feeling.
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  You're you're always welcomed and uh and and everybody's kind and loving in there.
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  I love it so warm people. There you go, all right, Carol,
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  thanks again, congratulations once again. I'm looking forward and uh to be
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  there and I play a little bit of piano and uh yes, thank you,
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  Thanks Carol, Bye bye