Adventures in Autographs the "Other" Mickey

[tazdmb]

I want to know who "Bob" is! All those autographs in the photo background are signed to him.

[JimStinson]

My Favorite Movie with him in it was "Mad Mad World" , That movie is STILL hilarious today ! I was curious where they filmed it and he said in the mountains and deserts right outside of LA which was then desolate and now suburbs.
In answer to your question "Bob" was Mickey's agent
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[2dueces]

Great story!!

[RelicSports]

Great story, thanks for sharing Jim!

[MooseDog]

Great story Jim.

I used to work at a horse racing related company doing phone support. As Jim said, Mickey was a big horse racing fan. Don't know how it started, but he found us somehow and started calling one of my co-workers just about every Saturday.

I had the pleasure of talking with him a couple of times when I filled in. My feeling was that the guy was either very lonely or else we were the only ones around at 8am he could tell stories too. And as Jim said, the guy was a GREAT story teller. All you had to do was give him a name and off he'd go. I got the feeling he just loved to talk and he was darned good at it.

He'd always want to know who we liked in some of the big stakes races. So maybe he was just trading stories for tips. He never did become a customer.

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by JimStinson

My Favorite Movie with him in it was "Mad Mad World" , That movie is STILL hilarious today !

Yup... and Sid Ceasar recently passed who was also great in that film.

[JimStinson]

Thanks guys...speaking of that movie I was doing a collectible show in Pasadena one weekend , and someone came up to my table , I turned around and it was Jonathan Winters ...I said hello and all I got was a "grunt" , Man was he GRUMPY !
Total opposite of what you would except from seeing him on the tube. I watched as he was leaving and someone asked him for an autograph and he looked at it like the guy was trying to hand him a "turd" and just kept on walking. Don't know if he was always like that or just having a bad day.
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[djson1]

Jonathan Winters always seemed like a grumpy person to me.

BTW, there was some follow-up news about Rooney's estate. I can't believe his assets were only valued at $18,000 according to this article. That seems a little hard to believe:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/09/sh...l?eref=edition