On Dec 18, 12:44 am, "James A. Robbins"  wrote:   
   > > We were watching Man of Samantha tonight and noticed the   
   >   
   > Make that Man of LaMancha (stupid spell checker....).    
   And here you had me thinking that James Coco had done a guest shot in   
   a musical episode of "Bewitched" that I had somehow missed.     
   As for your actual question - haven't a clue.  Of course, it is   
   possible that Furst was simply influenced by *seeing* Coco on-screen,   
   rather than sharing a school or acting teacher.  Coco certainly had a   
   large enough body of work for Furst to have seen a lot of him on both   
   the big and small screens.  (I think my personal favorite was a short-   
   livid sitcom, "Calucci's Dept", about a supervisor at the New York   
   City unemployment office.  My sister and I still having running jokes   
   based on lines from that show - which pretty much nobody but us ever   
   saw, apparently.)   
   Lots of actors "pick up" little mannerisms and bit of business from   
   others, either deliberately or unconciously.  The same is true of   
   comedians.  We all learn any craft by copying those who have gone   
   before us.  Artists start out by copying  the paintings of the   
   masters, then do original paintings in their styles until they develop   
   one of their own. Writers do something simlar, echoing others until   
   they find their own voice.   
   Some of the adapted habits remain and are absored in the person's own   
   style - whence they may be copied by others who come after.  (There   
   are a lot of Oliver Hardy "bits" and "takes" that TV sitcom actors who   
   never saw a Laurel and Hardy film do today.  They swiped them from Jay   
   Leno or David Letterman, who swiped them from Johnny Carson, who   
   copied them from Hardy himself.  It is like comic DNA.  )   
   Regards,   
   Joe   
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