Bill Boggs Live at Boca Black Box Theater Jan. 25
By Skip Sheffield
Attention New Yorkers: Bill Boggs, who was part of your life
from 1975 to 1987 on “Midday Live” on WNEW Channel 5, will be appearing for one
night only at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 25 at the Boca Black Box Theater, 8221 W.
Glades Road, Boca Raton.
“Talk Show Confidential” is the name of the show. Boggs
dishes the goods on the hundreds; nay thousands of celebrities he has
interviewed live on television.
“I’m doing this show for fun,” said Boggs with his lady
friend Jean Rothschild, who is part of the show. “I’m thinking this might be
good for the condo communities down here.”
A native of Philadelphia, Boggs got his start in radio at
the end of the “golden era.” His first TV talk show was “Southern Exposure” in
1972, High Point, North Carolina. Boggs discovered he had an affinity for
connecting with people, great and small. The greats include Frank Sinatra
Arnold Schwarzenegger, David Bowie, Martha Stewart, the Pope and Philippe
Petit, the morning after he walked a tight rope between the World Trade Center
towers.
“It’s almost a one-man play,” Boggs explains. “I deal with
the crazy things that happened in my career.”
Boggs, who is an officer of the famed Friars Club in New
York City, has a small part in the Robert De Niro movie “The Comedians” coming
out Feb. 3.
“I’ve been in several movies just being myself,” he says.
“De Niro plays an insult comic. I have only a couple of lines, but they are
important. Cloris Leachman plays a woman who has a heart attack, and I am a
first responder.”
Tickets for the Bill Boggs appearance are $30 and $40. Call
561-483-9036 or go to www.billboggs.com.
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