by Ted Heller
Pernilla Borg —Ziggy's second wife
Archibald Bratton —president of Bratton Theater Ventures
Buzzy Brevetto —comedian
Kid Burcham —boxer
Betsy Cantwell —actress, Danny McGlue's wife
Reynolds Catledge IV —soldier, employee of Vigorish, Inc.
Charlotte Charlot —chanteuse, Nazi
Maeve Clarity —Jack Enright's secretary
Father Claro —a Codport priest
Mickey Cohen —mobster
Harry Cohn —movie mogul
George S. Collier —director
Pete Conifer —entertainment director, entrepreneur
Wanda Conifer —Pete Conifer's widow
Artie Conway —TV producer
Mandy Crane —actress
Angie Crosetti —childhood friend of Vic's
Jiggs Cudahy —Vic's boss, owner of a soda fountain and pharmacy
Betsy Cunningham —General Woodling's mistress
Pops Deegan —trainer
Fritz Devane —singer, actor, legend
Roger Dillard —trumpeter
Debbie Dubin —Snuffy Dubin's wife
Snuffy Dubin —comedian
Teddy Duncan —member of The Three Threes
Jack Enright —agent
Dick Fain —vocalist
Ferdinand the Fantastiq —magician
Enrico Fermi —physicist
Tony Ferro —Vic's friend
Hilda Fleury —columnist
Ursula Fischer —physicist
Bruno and Violetta Fontana —Vic's parents
Ray Fontana —Vic's brother
Sal Fontana —Vic's brother
Louise “Lulu” Mangiapane Fountain —Vic's first wife
Vic Fountain, born Vittorio Fontana —entertainer
Vicki Fountain —Vic's daughter
Vincent Fountain —Vic's son
Tommy and Jimmy Fratelli —mobsters
Tony Friedman —Lenny Pearl's producer
Hunny Gannett —pugilist, raconteur, saloon keeper, greeter
Morty Geist —publicist
Joe Gersh —agent at MCA
Clarence L. “Ned” Gilbert —director
Hal Gordon —record producer
Ezra Gorman —movie producer
Grayling Greene —columnist
Seymour Greenstein —childhood friend of Ziggy's
Pip Grundy —polydactyl guitarist
Bobby Hale —columnist
Tony Hampton —golfer
Vern Hapgood —musical arranger
Reina Harbin —Vic's third wife
Bud Hatch —columnist
Jean Hatch —Bud Hatch's wife, also known as “SL”
Bernie Heine —Catskills hotelier
Cody Lee Jarrett —musician
Timothy Jones —FBI agent
Bertie Kahn —publicist
Gus Kahn —movie mogul
Ed Kapler —TV director
Murray Katz —agent at WAT
Faye Kendall —actress
Donny Klein —Sally and Jack's son
Jack Klein —real-estate lawyer, Sally Klein's husband
Sally Klein —Ziggy Bliss's cousin, co-manager of Fountain and Bliss
Mickey Knott —drummer
Shep Lane —accountant, Fountain and Bliss's money manger
Veda Lankford —actress
Arnie Latchkey —co-manager of Fountain and Bliss
Estelle Latchkey —Arnie Latchkey's secretary and wife
Howard Leeds —production chief
Don Leslie —bandleader
Anna Lipscombe —actress, Clive Bonteen's wife
Floyd Lomax —bandleader
Lou Manganese —Al Pompiere's son-in-law
Dominick Mangiapane —Lulu's older brother
Julie Mansell —singer
Louis B. Mayer —movie mogul
Taffy McBain —actress, Vic's second wife
Ed J. McDowell —journalist
Danny McGlue —joke writer
Stevie McGlue —Danny and Betsy's son
Marty Miller —radio and TV producer
Jerome Milton —Harry and Flo Blissman's agent
Larry and Stu Morrell —musicians
“Myrna” —stripper
Cecil Newcombe —radio host
Tony Newport —golfer
Barbara Nordquist —actress, stripper
Casper Nuñez —private detective
The O'Hares —vaudevillians
J. Robert Oppenheimer —physicist
Lenny Pearl —comedian, fellow trouper with Harry and Florence
Westbrook Pegler —columnist
Dolly Phipps —Ziggy's girlfriend, comedienne
Joan Pierce —neighbor of Ziggy and Jane White
Al Pompiere —mob boss
Jimmy Powell —nightclub employee
Gino Puccio —hotel employee, Guy Puglia's cousin
Kathy Puccio —his wife
Theresa and Paul Puccio —their children
Gaetano “Guy” Puglia —Vic's best friend, restaurateur
Billy Quinn —Lenny Pearl's radio announcer
Ices Andy Ravelli —bodyguard
Joe Ravelli —ices salesman, grandfather of Ices Andy
Carmine Ricci —Cathy Ricci's husband
Catherine Ricci —Vic's sister
Scarlet Robideaux —Ferdinand the Fantastiq's assistant
Billy Ross —bandleader for Fountain and Bliss
Millie Roth —secretary at Vigorish, Inc.
Barry and Manny Singer —writers
Edmund Sligh —radio actor, producer, director, and writer
Baldwyn Sloate —FBI agent
Edie Smith —Guy Puglia's wife
Hank Stanco —agent at WAT
Sid Stone —writer
Rocco Straccio —hoodlum
Emmett Strang —movie director
Clotilde Sturdivandt —couthier
Gershon Susskind —rabbi to the stars
Cueball Swenson —musician
Merwyn Swick —lawyer
“Steady” Eddie Teller —physicist, putative pugilist
John Timmons —orderly
Rowland Toomey —member of the Three Threes
Constance Tuttle —actress, lover of Vic
The Macy Twins —songstresses
Bubbles Van Boven —waitress
Joseph Weissblau —Jane White's father
Grace Wheelwright —Constance Tuttle's roommate
Jane White —Ziggy's first wife
Norman White —writer
Ruth Whitley —vocalist
Billy Wilson —Vic Fountain's double
Earl Wilson —columnist
Walter Winchell —columnist
General Emmett Woodling —U.S. Army general
Lucinda Woodling, née Hodge —his wife
Joe Yung —Vic's valet
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TED HELLER is a senior writer at Nickelodeon magazine and a contributing writer for GQ magazine. His first novel, Slab Rat, has been called “uncommonly smart, funny, and dead-on,” and “the funniest and sharpest novel about journalism since Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City.” He lives in New York City. Funnymen is his second novel.
