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A Blog designed for discussion of topics related to, but not limited to, Circus, Zoos, Animal Training, and Animal Welfare/Husbandry. Sometimes opening up the dialog is the best starting point of all. And if for nothing else when people who agree and don't agree, get together and start discussing it, it will open up a lot of peoples minds. Debate and discussion even amongst themselves opens a window where there wasn't one before.
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5 comments:
I recent Circus Report, I don't periodicals around very long or I'd give the date. A fan from Pennsylvania wrote a little piece on cat acts he had seen. Being a good fan, he liked everybody.
The outrageous GRACE JONES (who turned disco into a circus act) used to perform onstage with tigers and leopards and black panthers during her live appearances in disco clubs back in the late 70's. While performing in a Ft. Lauderdale nightclub, Grace crashed her motorcycle on which she rode onstage at the beginning of her act and injured her knee. She told MERV GRIFFIN on his TV show that a tiger scratched her bandaged knee. When I asked her for the truth - she slapped me!
Jim,
Maybe he liked everybody, but it say's I was one of his favorites.
Wade
Greg,
Merv Griffin, now there was a hootenanny. When I took two tiger cub's, Madras and Tila on he tv show in 1984, he asked me if they could be released back into the wild in Africa, when they were older. I laughed, looked him in the eye and said, "probably not, because tigers are from Asia, not Africa. The audience exploded while Mr. Griffin just glared at me. At the commercial break as I was preparing to leave, I overheard him tell the Ringling publicist, "Thank Mr. Burck, and also tell him he will never be back on my show again." As I passed through the green room Tom Jones laughed and in his wonderful Welsh accent said, "Yank, Merv likes to tell the jokes, but he doesn't like to be the butt of them." :)
Wade
Your story about Merv Griffin was pure gold! Now that's fodder for the tabloid mill. The media would eat that up - and give you an opportunity to publicize your shows!
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