Richard Kind
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It's just in my bag of tricks.
So I can sing a song, but I'm not great.
But I'm very loud.
I'm from the Ethel Merman School of Music, and that's what I do.
Right, it's not what Hollywood wants.
Which way did you interpret it?
You're talking about two teachers.
Oh, my high school teacher.
I went to school with a great actor named Robert Curtis Brown.
You'd know him as the yuppie in trading places.
Now, he's had a career that's much larger.
But whenever I mentioned his name, that's his most famous role.
He was a great actor.
He is a great actor and a handsome guy.
So I had my high school teacher say, you know, go go into your dad's business because Hollywood is looking for Robert.
OK, that's who they want.
I acknowledge that.
Then I went to college as a pre-law so that I would take over my dad's store.
Frank Galati, a very well-known Chicago theater maven at the Goodman at Steppenwolf and a teacher at Northwestern.