Remak ramsay biography of donald

HAZARDS OF the trade: In my last column featuring Baltimoreans who have gone on to fame in Hollywood or New York, Peggy Obrecht reminded me that I left out Remak Ramsay: “Remak, the late Carrie Ramsay’s oldest son, is usually on Broadway in any given season. He just finished a successful run in ‘The Heiress.’ He is best known for the TV commercial he did for Noxzema. He’s shaving while this Swedish model is whispering, ‘Take it off, take it all off.'”

Herbert Shofer called to tell me that I left out “Baltimorean Michael Tucker. He played a lawyer in ‘L.A. Law.'” Donald Rothman, father of actor John Rothman, wrote to update me: “All of the movies you mentioned that John played in are old stuff — he is now in bigger films like ‘Copycat.'”

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Summer 1996 is the 20th anniversary of the weirdest, most bizarre escapade in Baltimore’s long history of bizarre escapades, what is now remembered as Wally Orlinsky’s ill-fated, star-crossed Bicentennial Birthday Cake.

As part of Baltimore’s participation in the nation’s bicentennial, Mr. Orlinsky, then president of the City Council, created what he planned to be the largest birthday cake in the world — 24 feet wide, 65 fee

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