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Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Sorry For The Inconvenience

JUNE 19, 2006 --

LPR continues to get visits to the January 2, 2005 report on the Jerry Orbach funeral. To anyone who responds to one of the accompanying photos by saying: "That's not Peter Bogdanovich with Dominic Chianese [Uncle Junion on "The Sopranos]" -- LPR agrees. The person with Mr. Chianese is Jeffrey L. Gurian, perhaps as close to a modern Renaissance person as we have in the US, not Mr. Bogdanovich.

LPR would ask Comcast Search to take note because the photo is number 233 in your Peter Bogdanovich file and if anyone from Comcast Search had asked if they might use the photo, LPR would have pointed to the erroneous identification and suggested that the photo should, instead, go to the files for Mr. Chianese and Dr.
Gurian.

LPR has just learned that Jeffrey L. Gurian is not only a comedy writer and filmmaker.

He is also an assistant clinical professor at the NYU College of Dentistry and had been in practice for many years (calling to mind the fictional dentist, in the Comden-Green-Styne musical "Bells Are Ringing, "who wanted to be a songwriter).

He is also a spiritualist/healer and Eastern producer for National Lampoon radio -- and is working on Richard Pryor Jr.'s one-man act, and writing a book about his years as writer for the "roasts" at the Friars Club.

Don Imus should definitely put Dr. Gurian on his radio program when the book, "Filthy, Funny and Totally Offensive: Jokes So Dirty Comedians and Entertainers Only Tell Them to Each Other," (Kensington Press) is published
Clearly, in terms of being a current-day Renaissance man, Jeffrey L. Gurian is the real thing.

To learn how real, LPR refers clicksters to one of Dr. Gurian's websites: www.15minutesmagazine.com.

LPR apologizes to all for the mistaken ID and is, to borrow a NY subway euphemism, "sorry for the inconvenience."

LPR photo from January 2, 2005 - Dominic Chianese ("The Sopranos") and Jeffrey L. Gurian. (Not Peter Bogdanovich as originally reported.)


Jeffrey L. Gurian