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About Dr. Z
There are entertainers who only need one name: Sammy, Frank, Cher. To that list you can add Dr. Solomon Francis Zed. Dr. Z has been entertaining audiences for decades with a patented combination of showmanship and pizzaz that Lew Wasserman once described as, “a tall glass of yes with a wow chaser.” After gaining fame with his wildly successful nightclub act, Dr. Z established his acting bona fides on Broadway with a one-man show based on Twelve Angry Men and followed it up with a Tony winning version of The Shining called Overlookin’. On film, he played Abe Lincoln in an extended flashback sequence in The Towering Inferno that ended up on the cutting room floor, but picked up an Oscar the following year playing an arachnophobic priest who faces his fears in the disaster blockbuster Tarantulanche! Never tiring, Dr. Z still bounds out of bed every afternoon to fill any empty spotlight he can find.
Don’t let Dana Gould know that Dr. Z got the Bond girl in The Living Daylights wrong (Maryam, not Olivia).
It’s too bad Peter Sellers was such a monster in real life. Britt Ekland wouldn’t watch the movie about him because she didn’t want to relive how horribly he treated her.
‘and Goldie Hawn as a free-spirited flower child, a character so prevalent in 60s comedies it was a stale stereotype by the 70s.’
To be fair, it was just as lame in the ’60’s!