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BOB DAHDAH (seated, left) smiles as BERNADETTE PETERS deals with Sid Caesar on seated host Joe Franklin’s TV show, probably in 1968 or 1969 when Bernadette was starring in Bob and MARY BOYLAN’s “Curely McDimple,” written by Bob and Mary when the authors of “Dames at Sea” moved that show without taking director Bob with it, but using all his rewrites and staging.

LOUIS WALDON and Andy Warhol at The Silver Factory, 1964 photo: BILLY NAME/OVOWORKS

1970s. MICHAEL ALAIMO with his friend Jane Fonda as they played many military bases with their FTA (F___ The Army) show, encouraging troops to join the anti-war movement. (Screen capture from a documentary).

Photographer ROWLAND SCHERMAN, who took THIS famous image of Bob Dylan, is seen in a capture from “The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965,” taking yet another.

Jimmy Rado and GERRY RAGNI on The Smothers Brothers Show, Dec., 1968.

TOM O’HORGAN and GERRI RAGNI watching London rehearsal of “Hair,” 1968. Captured from this VIDEO.

1940s, an adult summer camp. WILLIAM ARCHIBALD and aspiring comedienne Imogene Coca in a “Russian” ballet choreographed by fellow hopeful kid Jerome Robbins!

SOREN AGENOUX and Lance Loud 1973, on PBS, the first “reality” show “An American Family”

ROBERTA SKLAR with co-director Joe Chaikin in film of JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE’s “The Serpent,” on YouTube HERE.

Clockwise from top left: WARREN FINNERTY, H.M. KOUTOUKAS, CHARLES STANLEY, JOHN P. DODD at Cino reopening after fire, 1965 photo: JAMES D. GOSSAGE

Times Square, 1966: Passerby, Leonard Melfi, Irene Fornes, H.M. KOUTOUKAS, LANFORD WILSON, Rosalyn Drexler, JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE, PAUL FOSTER, and TOM EYEN. (PLEASE click on this treasure of a photo to see it full-size. By the way, this is the photo-op for a French magazine where LANFORD very kindly pretended to be me because I was too scruffy to attend it. Learn more at the bottom of this PAGE.)

TOMMY GARLAND and DEBORAH LEE dance in Toby Armour’s “Greek Games” at Judson Church, music by JOHN HERBERT MACDOWELL.

In captures from a really poor copy of a fairly shaky movie, Leonard Mefli (1) and PAUL FOSTER (2), applaud…

…ELLEN STEWART ringing her bell, probably for the first night at the present La Mama, 74a E, 4th St., April, 1969. Show was probably TOM EYEN’s “Caution: A Love Story.”

KEITH CARSEY and friend at stock in Kennebunkport, 1961.

DORIC WILSON with a friend (he says “lover”) in Central Park in 1971.

All dressed-up, Cino Icon STEVE VAN VOST DAVIS and Theatre Genesis superstar Lee Kissman, L.A. in the 1970s.

All dressed down, Bobby Kubera, BILL HAISLIP, and me. Photo, Wren Di Antonio, 1972.

1964. “A hair-cutting party.” Back row left to right: Dale Joe, John Daley (standing), Gerard Malanga, MICHAEL SMITH (only his head), Ron Gronhord (with hat), Jack Champlin (Michael Smith says it’s Dorothy Podber’s friend Lester), Gregory Darnopuk, Ken Wollitz (obscured). Middle row: ONDINE Norman Billiard Balls, Billy Name, CHARLES STANLEY, Dorothy Podber. Front row: Binghamton Birdie, Freddy Herko (looking upward) and Dino. (photo: Michael Katz) BLOWN-UP DETAIL: CIno people identified.

JOSEF BUSH with unidentified friends, standing at right in top picture, seated at right in bottom picture.

Me with playwright DAVID STARKWEATHER

JOHN AMAN, composer and star of “Psychedelic Follies,” in high school [photo courtesy of Les Richards (Graifman)]

Ronny Dyson and WALTER HARRIS sing “What a Piece of Work Is Man” in “IHair” on Broadway.

Jackie Curtis at a La Mama party, with ELLEN STEWART.

Jackie Curtis with BILL HAISLIP at a La Mama party..

Joe Dallesandro and LOUIS WALDON
in a Warhol movie

TOM O’HORGAN and ELLEN STEWART in about 1968.

Me, director NEIL FLANAGAN, and producer Bill Compton at a party for my “The Haunted Host,” starring Harvey Fierstein, Boston, 1975. Photo: Don Hanover.

HOPE STANSBURY (in black) with friends when she was studying at The Actors Studio.

ONSTAGE AT LA MAMA NYC APRIL 28, 2012 –CAFFE CINO PANEL l. to r. Bob Dahdah, Jean-Claude van Itallie (holding photo of Joe Cino) William M. Hoffman Linda Eskenas Bob Heide Mari-Claire Charba, John Gilman, Paul Foster, Helen Hanft sing “God Bless America,” Joe Cino’s favorite song. VIA CELLPHONE, PHOTO BY BARRY ROWELL

DEBORAH LEE with JAMES WARING, PETER HARTMAN, and CHARLES STANLEY in the Cino in 1967 (photo by JIM GOSSAGE), and June 16, 2013 with me at the John Anson Ford Theatre in L.A. where Deborah (now Deborah Lawlor) was honored for her 20 years of service to the art of flamenco in L.A.