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now. It was broad comedy —
lot of intelligent powerful
very broad. I was known as a
people, and there has been a
tumbler. I'd throw myself
learning process in that
into swimming pools to get a
way."
laugh — I'd do anything for
A little surprisingly, when
laughs.
asked to identify the people
"But I like to think that, as
he's found most admirable
I got smarter, my material
along the way, King named
did, too. 'Actually, I think it
no entertainment figures.
was inevitable that I'd end up
"I had an extremely high
dealing with the subjects I
regard for Adlai Stevenson
deal with today in the act,
and Hubert Humphrey," he
and having the kind of
answered, "and, of course,
attitude I have. My father
Bobby Kennedy was a great
was a unionist and a socialist
influence in my life. I ad-
and, like so many other
mired them because they
immigrants, he was a
were for change, because they
champion of the working man
championed causes for people
and woman. I grew up in that
in need, people who are left
atmosphere and, basically, I
outside, ostracized for non-
still think like my father.
reasons like their race or
"Of course, through expos-
color or sex."
ing injustice comedically, I
King, in addition to his
change nothing — never
fame as an entertainer, has
have. But I try to make the
made his mark as a producer,
problems a little easier to
a writer, a tennis
deal with by making fun of
entrepreneur, and a busi-
them. Humor, you know, is a
nessman, and has also gained
powerful weapon."
world-wide recognition over
King contended that he's
the years as a dedicated
never nervous before a per-
humanitarian. In 1965, he
formance, and has no mem-
founded the Alan King Diag-
ory of ever having been nerv-
nostic Medical Center in
ous.
Jerusaldm, and has also es-
"Oh, I'm concerned, and
tablished a scholarship fund
sometimes excited. But nerv-
for American students at He-
ous? Unh-unh. Look, I'm a
brew University in Israel and
professional. You pay me for
a liberal arts chair at Bran-
my professionalism, and
deis University in Massachu-
that's what you get. It's not
setts. Other favored causes
like it's pot-luck or some-
have included the Nassau
thing. When you go to a sur-
Center for Emotionally Dis-
geon, you don't expect him to
turbed Children in New
be nervous before he makes
York, the Anti-Defamation
the incision-, do you? Of
League, and United Jewish
course not. When you know
Appeal.
what you're doing — like I do
His devotion to such
— and you've been doing it
causes, he said, comes di-
as long as I have, nerves
rectly from his heritage.
have nothing to do with it.
"If you'll forgive me for
"I like the live aspect of
saying so, I think I developed
performing 'on the stage. It's
my kind of conscience — or
always been my favorite
whatever you want to call it
medium to work in. I like,
— on the day I was circum-
from a comedic standpoint,
cised:It all has to do with my
standing up with nothing be-
Jewishness, and was just in
tween the audience and me.
the environment around me
Performing like that, I have
as I grew up.
total control, and you have no
"My mother's father was a
idea what power that is."
rabbi — not Chassidic, but
His greatest professional
very, very Orthodox — and
moment came,- he was quick
we lived with them during
to point out, via a stage per-
the Depression because my
formance in November 1956,
father (a designer and cutter
when he opened with Judy
of leather- goods) was often
Garland at the London Pal-
out of work and, of course,
ladium to rave , reviews. It
the community always
was King's first performance
supplied living (quarters) for
outside the United States.
the rabbi. My grandfather
"To go to a foreign country
was a very, very Talmudic
and to be received that well
man."
made a real difference to
King, who belongs to a
me," he said. "I got up the
synagogue on Long Island,
next morning, and there were
described himself as "not
people outside the Dorchester
formally religious, but tradi-
Hotel where I was staying, - tionally religious."
wanting my autograph."
"Being Jewish is part of
During his long career in
me, it's part of my psyche.
show business, King said he's
Remember, you're talking
never had a mentor. "I've al-
3,000 years of history that
ways considered myself a
was present in my environ-
blue-collar worker in an art
ment as I grew up. It's my
form, progressing by inches,
philosophy and my psychol-
in a sense, and I've never had
ogy.
any one person who took me
"One of the most moving
by the hand or showed me
experiences I've ever had oc-
the right direction to take.
curred when I first went to
But I have been exposed to a
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visited the Holocaust Center
there (Yad Vashem), shortly
after it opened.
"I've met all the Israeli
leaders, and I had a particu-
lar fondness for Golda (Meir),
who used to call me bondit,
the same thing my mother
called me.
"I try to go back to Israel
at least once a year, some-
times twice now."
Does Alan King ever relax?
Only when he's playing
tennis — and he's played
with all the VIPs of the ten-
nis world, from Budge to
McEnroe — or when he's put-
tering around in his garden
at the King's Pointe, L.I.
home he shares with his wife,
Jeanette. (The Kings, mar-
ried 40 years, have three
grown children: Robert, An-
drew, and Elaine, plus two
grandsons.)
King laughed outright at
the merest suggestion that he
might be "happy" or "con-
tent."
"I don't think I know what
`happiness' means," he said.
"And, as fors being content,
I've never been content in my
life — being discontented is
what drives me to do what I
do."
Even so, he said, "I know
I'm having a good time." ❑

Klezmer Band
Here For Concert

Cong. B'nai. Moshe, Cong.
Beth Shalom and Temple
Emanu-El will join for an
inter-congregational concert
at 3 p.m. April 5 at B'nai
Moshe.
The concert will feature the
Kapelye Group, a five-person
klezmer band. They are all
professional musicians and
ethno-musicologists raised in
Yiddish-speaking homes and
knowledgeable about oral
traditional music.

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Women's League
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The Huntington Woods
Women's League will have an
art auction, 8:30 p.m. April 4,
preceded by a -wine and
cheese preview at 7:30 p.m.,
at the Huntington Woods
Recreation Center, 26325
Scotia.
There is a charge for tic-
kets, available at the center
prior to the event and -at the
door. Proceeds will benefit
Comnion Ground and Burton
School Playground.

Ann Arbor To Hold
Spring Art Fair

The annual Ann Arbor
Spring Art Fair will celebrate
its ninth season April 4 and 5
at the. University of Michigan
Track and Tennis-Building.

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