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Morey Amsterdam was an actor/comedian most famous (at least in this millennium) for playing the role of Buddy Sorrel on The Dick Van Dyke show. Well, I knew he was a vaudevillian, and an excellent cellist, but I did not know that he worked for AL CAPONE. Yeah, really! When he was 16, he was working in a Chicago speakeasy owned by Capone. He was caught in the middle of a shootout at the club one night, and decided to move along to California.
Folks, I urge all of you to watch The Dick Van Dyke show. It’s one of the very few shows to make me laugh out loud at least once every single episode. And what a hugely talented cast: Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Rose Marie, and of course, Morey Amsterdam.
