Michael Barrie was a longtime writer for “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” and the “Late Show with David Letterman.” He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the lovely Fredrica Duke, and various four-legged freeloaders.
Michael Barrie
By Michael Barrie
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Food My life in delis — an elegy to the Carnegie, the Stage, Charney’s and the Jewish eateries of yesteryear
For one Jewish writer, a delicatessen has been far more than just a place for matzo balls and pickles
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You know you’ve been around awhile when you can claim to have co-written a script with a guy born in the 19th century. Well, I have been and I did. The show was “Andy Williams Presents” and the writer’s name was Goodman Ace. Born in 1899, just under the wire, a year that also gave…
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