Burt Metcalfe. In addition to his producing credits on “M*A*S*H”, he did some acting. Credits include “The Twilight Zone” (“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”), “Perry Mason”, “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”, “The Outer Limits”, and the “12 O’Clock High” series. Producing credits also include “AfterMASH”.
Stuart Woods, another one of those big-shot thriller authors.
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He later moved to Ireland, where he began to write his first novel. But he was soon diverted when he became enamored with sailing and began racing. In 1976, in a race from Plymouth, England, to Newport, R.I., that took him 45 days, he finished about in the middle of the field.
He then wrote a nonfiction account of the race, “Blue Water, Green Skipper,” and, after returning to Georgia, sold the American rights to W.W. Norton & Company. It also agreed to publish “Chiefs,” the thriller that Mr. Woods had begun eight years earlier.
He was another one of those guys whose books I saw all the time on the rack at the grocery store, but I’ve never actually read any of them. Chiefs sounds like it might be a good place to start…
Mary Alice, actress. She won a Tony for “Fences”, an Emmy for ““I’ll Fly Away”, and appeared in “The Matrix Revolutions” among other credits.
I didn’t get to listen to Warren Devon until tonight. But I am glad I took the time. As always, too notch, plus, you could see just how much fun his side men were having playing with him.
I played in a band way back in the 1990’s, called Tradewinds. I also got to play with some musicians who were either passing through, or were in my twin brother’s band at the moment.
One was a violin player, who did session work in Nashville, and another had played bass with Bob Seger on one of his tours.
To me, just a decent sax player, playing with guys of that caliber, was like them playing with the headlining acts. They were so good, it made me play better. And like you said, Warren Zevon always seemed to do everything just right, not caring about the critics, but just making great music.