Funnymen

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.