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I recently watched a documentary about a camp for kids whose entire lives had Been devoted to getting into show business. When these kids played peekaboo, they Did Bob Fosse jazz hands; their first sentences consisted of the words "start spreading The news." Seeing how hard they worked--singing and dreaming and tapping their hearts out--made me feel really crappy, because for me, getting into show business had been a breeze. Seriously. I was eighteen, and I did it without ever strumming a solitary guitar chord, without ever spinning a plate, without ever hitting a single note on-key--without, in fact, having any discernible talent whatsoever. I owe it all to one man: Joey Moynihan.
It was the late sixties, the summer after my first year of college, and I was visiting my family at an Air Force base on Okinawa, in the middle of the East China Sea. It was a very odd place for me, a newly minted hippie with official Trotskyite-in-training...
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