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Tributes and honors are
pouring in for comedian Bob
Hope on the occasion of his
100th birthday.
On May 29, the famous
intersection of Hollywood
Boulevard and Vine will be
named Bob Hope Square.
Also that day, the expand-
ed Bob Hope Hollywood
USO, a "home away from
home" facility for American
troops and their families
traveling to and from over-
seas and stateside assign-
ments, will be dedicated at
Los Angeles International
Airport.
In Washington, D.C.,
politicos and entertainers
will celebrate at the Bob
Hope Gallery of
Entertainment at the
Library of Congress.
Streets in Hope's current
home in Toluca Lake, Calif.,
and boyhood home of
Cleveland will be named
after the comedian. That
night, the Cleveland Indians
(Hope was part-owner in
the 1950s) celebrate Bob
Hope Day at Jacobs Field.
Clockwise from top left:
Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in "Road to
Utopia" "We had a lot offun on the
studio sets of his movies, especially the
Road' pictures," says Mort Lachman.
Hope entertains the troops.
"We had a lot of close calls in the
battle areas," says Lachman.
Hope garnered honorary Oscars
and special awards from the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences —
but never an Oscar for one of his
performances. "Oscar time at my
house is referred to as Passoven"
he once quipped.
Movies: The Bob Hope
100th Birthday Tribute
Collection, comprising 12
DVDs featuring 17 movies,
was recently released. Bob
Hope film festivals are
planned for this summer
and fall in Chicago, Los
Angeles, New York and
England.
Books: New in bookstores
are William R. Faith's biog-
raphy, Bob Hope — A Lift
in Comedy (DeCapo Press),
and Bob Hope — My Life in
Jokes (Hyperion Books), 'by
his daughter, Linda Hope.
Exhibits: "Bob Hope:
American Patriot" is on view at
the Ronald Reagan Presidential
Library in Simi Valley, Calif,
through June 8. The show
then will travel to the Dwight
Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson
and Gerald Ford presidential
libraries (the latter in Grand '
Rapids, Mich.).
— Bill Carroll
monologue routine, other than updat-
ing topical jokes of the day.
"He really was a limited comedian in
many ways," says Lachman, "but he's
the greatest comedy monologist in the
history of show business. He would go
anywhere and do anything for a laugh.
He would even play state fairs in small
states. He would have gone to Iraq in a
minute to entertain the troops."
Mort Lachman knows all this because
for many years, he went everywhere and
did everything with Bob Hope.
Raised In Detroit
Lachman, 85, was born in Seattle,
but raised on Detroit's east side, up
through his attendance at Hutchins
Intermediate School.
His father, Sol, owned several small
jewelry stores in the city, and operated
a jewelry counter at the old Russek's
Department Store on Woodward
Avenue downtown. His mother, Rose,
and her father owned a small grocery
store in Newberry; in Michigan's
Upper Peninsula.
"She actually ran the store while my
grandfather sat in the back and stud-
ied the Torah," Lachman recalls. "But
the rest of our family was not very
religious. Rose came to Detroit and
she met my father."
Sol Lachman went bankrupt after
the stock market crash of 1929 and the
family returned to Seattle, where Mort
Lachman attended high school and the
University of Washington, obtaining a
journalism degree. He was confirmed
at a Reform temple in Seattle.
After a stint in the U.S. Army, he went
to California and got a job as an advertis-
ing salesman for a while, then answered
an ad for a comedy writer for Jewish
comedian/singer Eddie Cantor. "He was
another comic with a big ego who just
begged for laughs," says Lachman, "and I
helped get them for him."
Lachman attended a comedy writing