Who is John Lehr, sitting in for Charlie Rose? Any relation to

[babylonsister]

Bert Lehr, the cowardly lion on "The Wizard of Oz"? Am I delusional?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. Bert Lahr, with an "a"...

Bert Lahr

Date of birth
13 August 1895
New York, New York, USA
Date of death
4 December 1967
New York, New York, USA.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0481618/

The Wizard of Oz (1939) .... Zeke/The Cowardly Lion

:evilgrin:

[rusty charly]

2. if it's john lahr

yes, it's burt's son

[babylonsister]

3. Well thanks, my friend, but I was sorta looking forward to an

in-depth review of the live guy! :P

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. OK, straight from the Charlie Rose Web Site and elsewhere:

Guest Host JOHN LAHR, The New Yorker

So it IS John Lahr, with an "a"...

http://www.charlierose.com/

Here's a photo:



Here's some info:

John Lahr, regarded by most as the stage's reigning scholar, is the author or editor of twenty-five books of essays, biographies, play anthologies, stage adaptations, screenplays, and novels, and has been the senior theatre critic and profile writer for The New Yorker since 1992.

". . .the most insightful writer on theatre today." - Arnold Aronson, New York Times Book Review

Lahr's latest book of essays, Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles (2000), collects fifteen of his best New Yorker profiles, examining such figures such as Woody Allen, David Mamet, Arthur Miller, Frank Sinatra, and Ingmar Bergman.

Lahr's famously penetrating, witty prose has been delighting readers since he began as a drama columnist for the Village Voice back in 1969. That was also the year he broke through with what is now considered one of the best-ever show business biographies, Notes on a Cowardly Lion (1969), the story of his vaudeville comedian father, Bert Lahr.

". . .endlessly fascinating, excellent. . .A work of literature, a work of history, a subtle psychological study." - Harper's Magazine

". . .a sensitive, perceptive, moving, and memorable biography. . .both a touchingly human document and an authoritative work of theatre historiography." - Variety

Lahr's second biography, Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton, was chosen as Book of the Year by Truman Capote and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Patrick White when it first appeared in 1978. His expanded New Yorker article on Frank Sinatra has been made into a book with pictures, Frank Sinatra: The Artist and the Man, which is currently a Book of the Month Club selection. His most recently biography is Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage with Barry Humphries (2000), the story of one of England's more famous comedians and comic creations.

". . .an exhilarating and highly intelligent book, full of laughs." - Michael Davie in Spectator

A two-time winner of the George Jean Nathan Award (1994 & 1969) for drama criticism, which is awarded annually by the Departments of English of Yale, Princeton, and Cornell Universities and the prize's youngest recipient. He's a three-time winner of the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for writing about music and the recipient of both the Roger Machell Prize for theater writing and the Yale Writing Prize. Lahr is also an often-performed playwright and an Academy Award Nominee, for his short film, Sticky My Fingers, Fleet My Feet (1971, directed by John Hancock).

Mr. Lahr has written numerous stage adaptations which have been performed in England and the United States including: Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Manchurian Candidate, The Bluebird of Unhappiness: A Woody Allen Revue, and Diary of a Somebody, which began at the Royal National Theatre, played the West End, and later toured England. He co-created, with Elaine Strich, the current Broadway hit, Elaine Strich at Liberty.

Mr. Lahr received his B.A. from Yale and his Master's degree from Worcester College, Oxford University. He divides his time between New York and London.

http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/lahr_john.html

:toast:

[babylonsister]

8. Thanks, my friend! I shoulda/coulda/woulda but didn't. I appreciate

your doggedness! :loveya: :thumbsup:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. As I say frequently on DU...

..."I am here to protect and serve..."

Plus, I can never resist a good Google challenge. If it's out there, I WILL find it.

:toast:

[babylonsister]

10. I don't do this often, but smooches to you for being such a

defender of what needs defending! I try in my small way at times, and you are the epitome of bringing the truth here. You are appreciated! :yourock: :yourock:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

11. Thank you, right back atcha, and I'll sign off tonight with some Emerson:

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense."

And the part that changed my life (when I referred previously to Emerson "changing my life")...it's my credo for posting on DU. I say what I have to say and let the chips fall where they may:

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope."

Both quotes from Self-Reliance: http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm

:patriot:

[REP]

4. Maybe a Relation of Tom Lehr, Math Professor and Satirist

:evilgrin:

On edit: well, it's Lehrer, but I was closer than I realized: http://comediclectures.com/ (about John Lehr)

[babylonsister]

5. Well, that was helpful.

Not really. :hi:

[REP]

6. See The Edit!