tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28879641.post8244458935862371282..comments2024-03-21T16:53:12.499-04:00Comments on Pat Cashin's CLOWNALLEY: CLOWN ALLEY: Sawing a Woman In Half, Ringling 1969Pat Cashinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14581680714974752006noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28879641.post-21073030437674650832009-01-25T15:31:00.000-05:002009-01-25T15:31:00.000-05:00Hello, my name is Esteban Padilla writing from Arg...Hello, my name is Esteban Padilla writing from Argentina. Mike Padilla was my uncle, a great man lived with my family until 1991. Mike died at 71 years of age. He was a great man and I have very nice memories of Mike.<BR/><BR/>Greetings from Argentina. <BR/><BR/>Esteban PadillaE.Padillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10027732215599171454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28879641.post-29198947021359284682008-01-30T20:03:00.000-05:002008-01-30T20:03:00.000-05:00You are welcome, Lane Talburt...And, clownron, I c...You are welcome, Lane Talburt...<BR/><BR/>And, clownron, I can't IMAGINE Frankie doing the gag! (Or many gags at all, really; he was wonderful, but such a flake.) And the stories of your version of the gag are hysterical! I'd love to have seen Frankie in his boxers getting out of the box. With his grapefruit hernia in full, unavoidable display! One would have heard more than a collective "wahhhhh!"<BR/><BR/>--MichaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28879641.post-812409554342722492008-01-30T12:41:00.000-05:002008-01-30T12:41:00.000-05:00I worked this prop/gag for the 3 years that I was ...I worked this prop/gag for the 3 years that I was on the show. For 2 years it opened the 2nd act. Frosty/Toby Ballentine appeared as the Magicians, Mark Buthman and I played the bumbling assistants, the LOVELY Jim Howel appeared as the woman and Frankie Saluto and MikePadilla/Mike King were the 2 halves. <BR/><BR/>Poor Frankie was such a screw-up that he often crawled into the gag facing the wrong way. Mark and I would stand their horrified when the 2 halves would drop and Padilla would run out and Frankie would land on his head, performing an unintended, slo-mo, toothpick!<BR/><BR/>I once took a nap in the box on a 3show Saturday and woke up when I heard 'Come-in' music... I climed out of the box to find that it had been pushed into the center ring. I was wearing full make-up, a wife beater, and boxers... The audience responed with a collective wahhh!?!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28879641.post-2509205475485370272008-01-26T18:38:00.000-05:002008-01-26T18:38:00.000-05:00A great story, Michael. Thanks for sharing.Lane T...A great story, Michael. Thanks for sharing.<BR/><BR/>Lane TalburtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com