One time at New Year's, he told me to grab my guitar and we, along with my wife, went into an empty room and sang duets of Russian songs together for 45 minutes. This had always been a wish of mine, and finally I got to do it. My wife and two hotel janitors were the only audience, and the two janitors had no idea who he was. They just said, "we don't know what y'all are singin', but y'all are pretty good at it." Yeah, Theo Bikel was "pretty good at singing!" I guess so! We could have probably filled a few concert halls with that little performance, and no one even knew it was taking place.
I used to say I had a "Fantastic Four of awesome 80 somethings" as friends. They all made it past 90, but three of them are now gone. Helen Thomas, Stan Lee and Theo. Only Ruth Westheimer is left. She turned 91 this year, and she is still going strong.
From days gone by, me with Theo, Tamara, Dr. Ruth and a friend
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