In The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed actor-singer Joel Grey for my "House Call" column on growing up in Cleveland (go here). His father was a saxophonist and clarinetist who played with local society bands and then moved the family to Los Angeles when he joined Spike Jones's band in the 1940s. Joel's mother had terrible mood swings that o…
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