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Watching this doc about the comedy store and somehow it spends like less than 15 minutes on the comedy strike which is nuts and I’m sure has nothing at all to do with the fact that the guy who made it was one of the guys who broke the strike… also how are you going to barely talk about Steve Lubetkin at all the most interesting thread of the whole story. And praise Mitzi Shore so much and not even bring up the fact she was making piles of money off these people and refused to even just give them a cut of the cover charge. WHATEVER!!!

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LMC Produces Veteran-Centric Care Live Broadcast for Samaritan

The Lubetkin Media Companies produced a four-and-a-half hour live video broadcast of a veteran care-oriented webinar for Samaritan, the South Jersey regional leader for hospice and palliative care.

The Lubetkin Media Companies produced a four-and-a-half hour live video broadcast of Veteran-Centric Care Across the Continuum: PTSD, Moral Injury, Soul Injury: How to Become an Agent of Hope and Healing, a continuing professional education webinar, for Samaritan, the South Jersey regional leader for hospice and palliative care. LMC Managing Partner Steve Lubetkin moderated a live Q&A session…

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Liberace, Garden State Arts Center, 1969 por Steve Lubetkin Por Flickr: Liberace performing at the Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ, 1969. Copyright © Maurice Lubetkin, digital scan Copyright © Steve Lubetkin

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TSCG Finalizes Sale of Only <b>Kroger</b>-Anchored Center In North Metro Town

TSCG Finalizes Sale of Only Kroger-Anchored Center In North Metro Town. July 12, 2018 | By Steve Lubetkin. The 30,000-square foot center includes ... from Google Alert - "fred meyer" | "king soopers" | kroger | ralphs | fry's | qfc | dillons | -"john kroger" -"qatar" -"stephen fry" https://ift.tt/2zwvJUx via IFTTT

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Pauly Shore: Eyewitness to Comedy History

Brash, nasal and opinionated, Mitzi Shore took a middling comedy club on the Sunset Strip and for a time made it the center of American comedy. That was the Comedy Store, which she won ownership of in her 1974 divorce. Before she died in 2018, the Comedy Store launched the careers of a bevy of stand-up comics, including David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmie Walker, Elayne Boosler and Sandra Bernhard.

Watching them all was her son, Pauly Shore. He gained notoriety as “the Weasel,” a lewd surfer character, and became a popular V.J. on MTV before appearing in 1990s movies like “Encino Man” and “Bio-Dome.” Today, at 51, he’s still a working stand-up and has begun performing a one-man show about his childhood called “Stick With the Dancing.” Backstage after a recent performance in Myrtle Beach, S.C., he shifted out of his Weasel persona and remembered his childhood as an eyewitness to the greatest minds in comedy. Looking back on that scene of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, he spoke about his mother’s influence — and the breakthroughs and feuds that surrounded her. Here are excerpts:

Mitzi Shore as a Force of Nature

My mom was very loving — but her first love was always the Store and the comics. She owned a limo — a weird-looking limo. Riding in it, I felt like we were the Addams Family. But Mom loved being driven around. She always had comedians drive the limo.

Hiding in the Lighting Booth

Around age 8, Pauly Shore became fascinated with stand-up and spent as much time as he could at the Store, hiding in the lighting booth to watch stars like Redd Foxx and George Carlin and little-known talents like Lenny Schultz.

Lenny Schultz was a P.E. coach with a beautiful body, but he was nuts. He would bring food onstage and say, “The Lenny Schultz diet, what I like to do is put food on the parts of my body where I want to lose weight.”

Then he would strip down to a Speedo and stick handfuls of cottage cheese inside the Speedo. He’d pour milk on his head, rub a grapefruit on his elbow, and smear chocolate pudding on his chest. My little jaw dropped. After a performance, he’d go out to the parking lot to clean up. My first job at the Comedy Store was hosing down Lenny Schultz.

House Calls From Robin Williams

None of the club’s regulars hit it bigger than Williams, who parlayed his sets there into television and film stardom.

Robin Williams was a really sweet guy, but he would run around the club like the Tasmanian Devil. For a while, my mom’s office was at our house. Right after Robin got the “Mork & Mindy” TV show, he’d show up at our house to meet with my mom, wearing the Mork outfit.

Comedians are very sensitive. My mom knew that, and she was like the den mother to all of them. She knew how fragile Robin was, and they had this kindness for each other that was pretty special.

The Gentle Richard Pryor

Pryor rebooted his career at the Comedy Store in the 1970s.

My mom was very close with Richard Pryor — she took him under her wing. I know they had sex one time, but their relationship wasn’t a sex thing, it was a love-intimacy-respect thing.

When Richard showed up at the Store, it was like a wave went through the club: “Richard’s here, oh my God, Richard’s here.” I’d go out to the parking lot and open the door of his car. He’d get out, say “Heeeeey little man!” and shake my hand. He wasn’t socially awkward, the way most comedians are offstage; he was gentle and soft.

Once he got inside the club, I’d fetch him a Courvoisier, he’d light a cigarette, and my mom would sit next to him on a staircase. When the M.C. would announce Richard, people reacted like Jesus Christ was coming onstage. He would get a laugh as soon as he spoke, no matter what he said.

Richard came around whenever he was developing a new standup set; Paul Mooney, who wrote with him, and Jennifer Pryor, his wife, would sit in the back and take notes. And Richard would be terrible at the beginning — the audience would worship him, but he’d do five minutes with no laughs. He’d keep working at it, and it’d get a little better, but still be pretty bad. Then I’d go away for a little while, maybe a month at summer camp, and when I came back he’d be doing 40 minutes and killing.

Mondays at the Club

That was “potluck” night, with performance times determined by drawing names from a hat. Some aspiring comics would spend months performing on Mondays, gaining experience and trying to get in Mitzi Shore’s good graces.

Garry Shandling did over 20 showcases for my mom before she gave him a prime-time slot. She believed in him — if she didn’t, she wouldn’t have let him hang around — but she pushed him really hard. He was a writer and she thought he didn’t have it as a performer yet.

Same thing with Roseanne — my mom told her to wear overalls. To this day, I think Roseanne got her cadences from my mom. Roseanne kind of worshiped her.

Hollywood had the casting couch and the Comedy Store had the Mitzi couch: if you wanted a spot onstage, you needed to kiss the owner’s ass. But when my mom liked you, she would make you a doorman. You could park cars. “You’re great. Now go answer the phones.” You’d be on the payroll, getting comfortable in this crazy environment.

Yakov Smirnoff worked as the handyman at the Store — and at our house. He needed a job, and he was a carpenter. He sanded our doors and built a butler’s pantry.

Late Nights Offstage

Sometimes after the Store closed for the evening, a handful of comics would go to Mitzi Shore’s home.

My mom had afterparties at our house, but I was a light sleeper. From the third grade through junior high, I would wake up in the middle of the night and everyone would be in the living room: Mom, Richard Belzer, Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, David Tyree, other randoms. She’d bring champagne from the Store and there’d be lots of joints.

I’d open the door to a smoke-filled room and say: “Mom. Mom. Mom!”

Then she’d notice me. “What? Oh, hey, Pauly.”

“Mom, I’ve got school in the morning, please.”

Everyone would just stare. They apologized, but the second I left the room, they would start laughing.

Comics on the Picket Line

After Johnny Carson moved “The Tonight Show” from New York to California in 1972, aspiring comics in Los Angeles had a clear career path that involved attracting the attention of Carson’s bookers (who frequented the Comedy Store). However, the comedians weren’t paid for their sets.

My mom saw her role as giving comics a space to develop, but it was obvious she was making a lot of money. The comics wanted to get paid, too. So in 1979, they went on strike.

Mom took it really personally. It was embarrassing to have all these comics out in front with picket signs. They had messages like “No Bucks for Yucks.”

It was hard. One comedian, Steve Lubetkin, killed himself, jumping off the roof of the Hyatt House, landing on the ramp between the Hyatt and the Store. “My name is Steve Lubetkin,” his suicide note read. “I used to work at the Comedy Store.”

The [striking comics] ended up making a deal and got paid a token amount. My mom never really forgave the comedians, but pretty soon the drugs were flowing and people were partying again and everybody seemed to forget about it.

Mitzi Shore expanded the club over the years, but Pauly Shore discovered that if he wanted a stand-up career of his own, he would need to leave.

When I got into high school, I wanted a 100-gallon saltwater fish tank. Mom said she wouldn’t buy it for me, but that I could work for it — she made me the short-order cook on weekends at the Westwood branch of the Comedy Store.

My mom used the Westwood branch for comedians she thought weren’t ready for the Sunset location: Howie Mandel, Paul Rodriguez, Arsenio Hall. Jim Carrey did these amazing impressions of Elvis Presley and Henry Fonda.

Budd Friedman owned the Improv, and there was a feud — comics had to play one club or the other. It was awkward, because me and Budd’s kid went to Beverly Hills High School together. I used to go into the Improv, write down the names of the comedians working there and tell my mom.

My mom also had this tense situation with Rodney Dangerfield. In 1985, he hosted HBO’s annual “Young Comedians Special” — and Rodney recruited them all from the Comedy Store.

My mom didn’t like that he was poaching her comics — but they wanted to be poached! Roseanne did the show, Andrew Dice Clay did it. Sam Kinison had been working as a doorman at the Store, but the spot he did on Rodney’s special made him famous.

Mom banned Sam from the Store because of an incident where he showed up all coked out with a gun, looking for somebody he had beef with. I was hanging out with Sam a lot and she thought I was going to die. We had this intense fight where she told me not to spend time with Sam. I said, “Mom, you don’t understand. I’m not hanging out with him for drugs — I’m hanging out with him because he’s a genius.”

She started crying and threw her keys at me. The next day, I got my own studio apartment and started my stand-up career without her.

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Cushman & Wakefield EMD Fern Sees Continuing NJ Industrial Momentum

The development community continues to launch industrial construction projects on spec - at a level not seen in 15 years, according to Charles Fern, executive managing director and senior supply chain specialist with Cushman & Wakefield. Steve Lubetkin is the New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com.

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SBN Newsmakers-Compuschmooze TV: Gatsby Frimpong, creator of Gatsby.TV broadcast and streaming video search app

SBN news director and Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey "CompuSchmooze" columnist Steve Lubetkin chats with Gatsby Frimpong, creator of Gatsby.TV, a free search app for Android and iOS devices.

In this special episode of SBN Newsmakers and CompuSchmooze TV, SBN news director and Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey “CompuSchmooze” columnist Steve Lubetkin chats with Gatsby Frimpong, creator of Gatsby.TV, a free search app for Android and Apple iOS devices. Gatsby.TV consolidates search results for TV programs on broadcast, cable, and streaming services, and lets users share…

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Compuschmooze Video Interview: Israel Tech Sector Grieving Along with the Rest of the Country

A video interview with Kendall Breitman, a community manager with Riverside.fm in Tel Aviv, about the Oct. 7 terrorist massacres and their effect on the tech industry.

In the wake of the horrific October 7 terrorist attack, the one thing that Israelis need most is to hear from friends and family elsewhere in the world, according to one technology industry executive. The executive, Kendall Breitman, a community manager with Tel Aviv-based video recording company Riverside.fm, spoke with LMC’s managing partner, Steve Lubetkin, for his monthly “Compuschmooze”…

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Steve is a guest on RVN-TV’s “Rainmakers Roundup” program

Steve is a guest on RVN-TV’s “Rainmakers Roundup” program

Steve appeared on the Jan. 14 and Jan. 20 episode of Rainmakers’ Roundup, a talk show on RVN-TV for entrepreneurs and business owners hosted by Mark Iorio, brand strategist and founder of The Mega Group, a business growth consultancy in Mercer County, New Jersey. You can watch the conversation on the RVN website, or in the player below. https://vimeo.com/502839994  

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Steve is a guest on RVN-TV's "Rainmakers Roundup" program

Steve is a guest on RVN-TV’s “Rainmakers Roundup” program

Steve appeared on the Jan. 14 and Jan. 20 episode of Rainmakers’ Roundup, a talk show on RVN-TV for entrepreneurs and business owners hosted by Mark Iorio, brand strategist and founder of The Mega Group, a business growth consultancy in Mercer County, New Jersey. You can watch the conversation on the RVN website, or in the player below. https://vimeo.com/502839994  

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X rating for 'Midnight Cowboy' was a marketing ploy, says Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of new book about the movie

X rating for ‘Midnight Cowboy’ was a marketing ploy, says Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of new book about the movie

SBN correspondent Steve Lubetkin interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning author Glenn Frankel about his latest book, “Shooting Midnight Cowboy.” Contrary to popular belief, the X-rating assigned to Midnight Cowboy did not come from a prudish motion picture ratings board, but from a studio executive whose marketing team turned the X rating into a marketing bonanza, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning…

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Steve participates in NJ Content Creators panel on ‘Podcasting Tips for Beginners and Pros’ in Montclair Steve was a member of the panel for the NJ Content Creators MeetUp's "Podcasting Tips for Beginners and Pros"