Page 23 Winter 1987-88
Young Mark Bakalor has taped an egg juggling commercial to advertise a new Milton Bradley toy named "Dr. Wacko." Bakalor's four egg juggle will be speeded up in editing to look like a dozen or more. The spot will air nationally beginning in February.
Anthony
Gatto, who continues his yearlong appearance at Ballys in Las
Vegas, continues to improve his formidable skills. He can maintain
impressive runs with nine balls and nine rings, and hopes to do a 10
ball juggle by next summer's Denver convention. Gatto's 7 ball
routine now includes a long overhead cascade, a full pirouette,
under the leg and behind the back throws. He also tosses three clubs
high behind the back out of his five club cascade, pirouettes with
two in his hands and resumes the five cascade.
Larry
Jordan of Kissimmee, Fla., and Bill Fry claim to have
achieved a "first" by untying a volunteer's bikini top by
passing clubs around her. They've named the stunt "The Six Club
Strip." Fry left town quickly thereafter to work for three
months on a Hawaiian-American Cruise Lines ship.
Kit
Summers appeared on "Hour Magazine" in September with
Peter Scolari and host Gary Collins. On Oct. 24 Summers was married
to Mary Ellen King, a woman he met in San Diego's Balboa Park at a
juggling party!
Wally
Eastwood, billing himself as "the fastest juggler on
earth,'" is performing his fast-paced stage act in Reno, Nev.,
at the Bally Hotel's "Hello Hollywood Hello" show until
April 19. Several
comedy jugglers, including The Raspyni Brothers, Edward Jackman,
Marty Polio, Daniel Rosen, Frank Olivier and Robert Gruenberg
were taped for segments of "George Schlatter's Comedy
Club" television show. Also appearing will be stand-up
comedians and variety artists like 1986 convention public show
magician Pat Hazen. The segments are being aired nationwide this
winter on some NBC stations.
Jackman
had another televised appearance on the Showtime network's
"Comedy Club Network." He did several Los Angeles-area
television shows and performed at "At My Place" in Santa
Monica, Calif., with Michael Ruff. |