Yes, another umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer goes to that great gig in
the sky! ehe Excerpt from Jewish Telegraphic Agency: http://
tinyurl.com/32y52t : "Beverly Sills, the premier American opera diva
born to first-generation Jewish Americans, has died. She died Monday
at her Manhattan home of inoperable lung cancer. She was 78. Sills
was born Belle Silverman in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn. Her
father, Morris, was an insurance broker from Romania, and her mother,
Shirley, was born in Russia. Sills was pushed into show business at
age 4, her mother believing her to be a "Jewish Shirley Temple,"
according to The New York Times." -D, NYC "New York City has the zoo,
aquarium, museums, fashion center, diamond center, U.N., Statue of
Liberty; and it's got the Yanks and the Mets; and it's got every kind
of food but lousy; and it's the home of the one-namers like Harrison,
Dustin, Calvin, Katie, Rosie, Bianca, Bernadette, Matt, Bryant,
Vanessa, Julia, Halle, Gwyneth, Donald, Ivana, Puffy" - CINDY ADAMS
(umpteenth sweet, Jewish NYer).."The people of New York are proud of
their state and proud to be at the 'center of the universe.'
Everything revolves around New York." - JOHN T. WHITE, WORLD RESERVE
MONETARY EXCHANGE.."What I took back, because of my exposure to the
Jewish music of the '30s and the '40s in my upbringing with my father, ...