Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship, with DVD of "The Odd Couple" out-takes, 1971-75

Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship, with DVD of "The Odd Couple" out-takes, 1971-75
by Jack Klugman, Burton Rocks

Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship, with DVD of "The Odd Couple" out-takes, 1971-75
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Author: Burton Rocks, Jack Klugman
Foreword: Garry Marshall
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09
ISBN: 0976830302
Number of pages: 141
Publisher: Good Hill Press

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Book Review: Klugman and Randall, Friends Beyond Oscar and Felix
Summary: 5 Stars

Jack Klugman. Tony Randall. Those are two names known to anyone over 35, and to plenty of people younger, thanks to the legendary TV series, "The Odd Couple." Fewer of us know about their extended career acting on stage before and long after the series. In between those years, a complex relationship was built that did not follow the Hollywood style.

"Tony And Me: A Story of Friendship" gives Jack Klugman's point of view on how they interacted and grew closer. Beginning before anyone heard of them, and ending with Tony's death in May 2004, it developed a richness that I envy.

Klugman self-published "Tony and Me," knowing that more profit would be made available for Randall's beloved National Actors Theater. The fact that Klugman did not rely on a bevy of editors and marketers shape what he said created a personal voice that avoids patting himself on the back and indulging in name-dropping. Instead, he comes across conversational and friendly.

Klugman explains how he and Randall saw life differently, not too dissimilarly as Oscar and Felix, but that it was their common love and training in theater that connected them.

He never delves into kiss and tell, sparing us from any lurid gossip that may have surrounded either in the heyday. Like a eulogy, he tells fond stories of the two of them together, and, most of all, why Randall mattered in his life.

One significant story Klugman tells is about his throat cancer, and subsequent surgery that dealt a blow to his voice. Randall was the one who encouraged him most to return to theater. Without a decent voice, this would be impossible, but Randall let Klugman know he would help him get back on stage if he wanted to try. Klugman tried, and they eventually starred together in "The Sunshine Boys" in the National Actors Theater. More than a professional victory, this personal triumph humbled Klugman in a new way. He realized the formation of a solid friendship, that after 30-some years of working together, they were more than a team.

Jack Klugman does not gush, or gab. A short book, it focuses on friendship more than the events that surrounded them. At the book's end, he admonishes readers to set aside grudges and to realize that friendship and the bond it creates is bigger than pride.

The "Odd Couple" outtakes DVD is a collection of goof ups from the series. Klugman adds to his book with this, giving the reader an immediate reminder of what put both of them on the map, and the kind of connection they had in the in-between times.

I fully recommend "Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship" by Jack Klugman.

Anthony Trendl
editor, HungarianBookstore.com

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