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• How sometimes being in the wrong place is the right thing to do

  In this week's "Why For" column, Jim Hill shares a story that Wally Boag once told him. Which explains how -- thanks to being accidentally upstaged by Steve Martin -- this Disney Legend wound up appearing on "The Muppet Show" Read More... Posted Friday, October 31, 2008 12:00 AM | 1 Comments Filed under: Muppets, Jim Henson, Disneyland, Anaheim, Disney Legend, Saturday Night Live, YouTube, Hollywood, Steve Martin, Steven Spielberg, Golden Horseshoe , Wally Boag, opening night, backstage, London, audience, Universal Studios Hollywood , Woody Allen , 1978, Ellen Boag, The Muppet Show, The Golden Horseshoe Revue, Muppet Show, Golden Horseshoe Revue, Universal Amphitheater, Jake, Dan Ackroyd, Elwood, John Belushi, vaudeville, Jack Nicholson, vaudevillian, vaudevillians, Elwood Blues, Hollywood royalty, Jake Blues, Hollywood party, Jake and Elwood, Hollywood crowd, The Blues Brothers, Adam, Blues Brothers, first class, Bernadette Peters, comfort zone, dressing room, right place, wrong place, Wild and Crazy Guy, A Wild and Crazy Guy, Pecos Bill, Mexican, opportunity, engagement, 80% of success is showing up, apology, special guest, special guests

• Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up" is an outstanding show business memoir

  Jim Hill reviews this Disney Legend's latest book, which traces the beginnings of Martin's comedy career back to the days Steve spent at Disneyland selling guidebooks to tourists Read More... Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 12:00 AM | 5 Comments Filed under: book, Disneyland, Disney Legend, Sleeping Beauty Castle, Los Angeles, Fantasyland, Steve Martin, movie, stand-up, comic , three-piece suit , Disney Online, 1970s , arena , dime trick, Roxanne , The Jerk , Mexican cat juggling, Picasso at the Lapin Agile , The Underpants, Shopgirl , Pleasure of My Company, Pure Drivel, Kenny Sultan, Scribner , guidebook , Pepsi Cola , Golden Horseshoe , Frontierland, Wally Boag, comedian , gags , gun twirling , wig , balloon animals , magic act , Merlin's Magic Shop, Jim Barlow, Bird Cage Theater, Knott's Berry Farm , behind-the-scenes stories , 1950s