In this story, reporter Ben Fields interviews comedian Jim Gaffigan. By the way, my inside sources at the Marshall Artist's Series tell me Gaffigan's show is almost sold out, so if you want to get tickets, better order 'em fast.
Here's an excerpt from the story:
It shouldn't surprise anyone at the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center if renowned funnyman Jim Gaffigan comes off like someone they know.
"I grew up outside of Gary, Indiana; I describe it as where the farmland meets the steel mills," Gaffigan said in a telephone interview. "It's like a lot of parts in the Midwest. In high school, one night I'd be sitting on a hay stack and the next night I'd be in some abandoned field of a steel mill.
"It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy."
Sound familiar?
The other story right here is about a local resident who recalls Paul Newman's visit researching his Cool Hand Luke role.
Here's an excerpt:
Paul Newman, the Oscar-winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as Hud, Cool Hand Luke and The Color of Money — spent time in Huntington back in September of 1966 preparing for his role in the film, Cool Hand Luke.
A Cleveland, Ohio, native who went to college just a few hours away at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, spent a weekend in Huntington with Huntington businessman Andy Houvouras.
Houvouras drove Newman around to Cabell, Wayne, and Lincoln counties where Newman talked to folks and taped them to try and get down the accent he needed to play a Florida chain gang worker who was supposed to be originally from Appalachia.
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