"While Dad's downstairs listening to Henny Youngman, the kids are upstairs. listening to me."
That's Jean Shepherd, a fey figure in the entertainment world, discussing another rope's length in the generation cap. It is a gap that interests Shepherd - who is in his 40s - in an academic sense, professionally: his fan mail comes, he says, from 10 to 80-year¬olds, and his listeners are bound by attitude, not age...
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