Monday, September 02, 2002

TONY RANDALL GOT A TOEHOLD ON ACTING IN HIGH SCHOOL

Jean Rappaport Kraft waited over 65 years to pick up her $200 for this Celebrity Classmates submission. She and Leonard "Tony Randall" Rosenberg attended Tulsa Central High School in Oklahoma.

"He was always acting all the time, " his classmate revealed. "With his voice and everything, he said he was playing a part." Flamboyant Tony enjoyed assuming a "theatrical mode," Jean explained.

The "toehold" part of the headline refers to the fact that Tony had "this nerve-wracking habit of cracking his toes in his shoes during class." That would seem justification enough to label the story "TONY RANDALL: TEENAGE CRACK ADDICT". Maybe all the letters didn't fit.