PROF. STANLEY DAVID FRUMKIN
  • media superstar
  • tastemaker
  • globe-trotting sophisticate
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
1947 Institutes first Voice of America broadcasts to the Soviet Union as director of the State Department's International Broadcasting Division; plays Ukulele Ike's "My Red Hot Gal" non-stop for 14 days.
1948 Employed in New York as a gag writer for Lew Parker, a radio comedian.
  1959 The United States Information Agency (USIA) asks Frumkin to fill the newly created post of chief of religious policy.
1960 Wrestles the Fabulous Moola to a draw in a televised Madison Square Garden grudge match.
1974 Faces a Federal felony charge for illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon re-election campaign and a Federal misdemeanor charge of accessory after the fact; "Not my finest hour," Frumkin is quoted as saying.
1991 As a noted ethnomusicologist at the Cambridge Conservatory, discovers The Twenty % Tippers; conceives and sponsors their touted East-Asian club tour, but immediately ditches the band at the Osaka airport with only 200 yen amongst them for two giggling Kabuki dancers in Motley Crue T-shirts.
     
His Cultural Pick of the Season:

THE TWENTY % TIPPERS
AT THE TRILOGY THEATER
341 W. 44th St. (bet. 8th & 9th Ave.)
Saturday, September 16th 10PM


For a Free Twenty % Tippers cassette
call (646) 335-3390

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