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Gender: Male
Status: Single
Age: 52
Sign: Pisces

City: Orlando
State: Florida
Country: US
Signup Date: 4/30/2006
Sunday, February 01, 2009 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
One might have thought that WANZIE himself was responsible for that jet falling into the Hudson River during his recent visit to the Big Apple, the way Matthew (Carol Lee) Arter was carrying on.

Arter left a harried, scolding message on WANZIE’s cell phone, which went something like


“MICHAEL WANZIE – I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU! YOU OF ALL PEOPLE! I’M VERY DISAPPOINTED AND UPSET WITH YOU... CALL ME!”

After calling to mind any and every horrible thing he had ever said about Carol Lee and how it might have gotten back to Matthew, WANZIE sheepishly returned the call, only to discover that Arter was in an uproar because the WANZeGRAM had featured a picture of WANZIE posing with a dress which we incorrectly reported had been worn by Ethel Merman as she sang ROSES’ TURN in GYPSY fifty years ago.


“YOU KNOW AS WELL AS I DO,” Arter bellowed into the phone ...


“ROSE DID NOT WEAR A SEQUINED DRESS IN THAT BACKSTAGE NUMBER. EVERY PICTURE I’VE EVER SEEN OF MERMAN DOING ROSES TURN IN GYPSY SHOWS HER WEARING A SIMPLE PURPLE DRESS! AND CERTAINLY NOT SEQUINED!”

We at the WANZeGRAM cannot be certain who got what mixed up. Either the owner of the dress, a cast member of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY (encountered recently at Seth Rudetsky’s CHATTERBOX in NYC) who purchased it at world famous CHRISTIE’S AUCTION HOUSE, got the story wrong, or WANZIE got the story wrong, or CHRISTIES sold the Broadway star a bill of goods.

So upset was Arter that such an untruth was unleashed upon the WANZeGRAM reading public, we at the WANZeGRAM World Headquarters in GYPSY-less Melbourne, Florida set about the task of painstaking research and here’s what we've  found:


  • The dress NEVER appeared in GYPSY.
  • The dress WAS INDEED however worn by the late great ETHEL MERMAN, but NOT while singing ROSE'S TURN, rather, while singing EVERYTHING’S COMING UP ROSES on a televised Broadway tribute show of some sort.
Just to remind you – here’s WANZIE with the offending dress –




And here’s a link to a video of Merman performing while wearing that exact dress:




We apologize for any undue trauma we may have caused the Merman-sensitive Mr. Arter and we regret that false information appeared in this e-publication. We hope providing the above video link will put the matter to rest and if nothing else, confirms that the dress was at least an actual Merman-worn garment. We also suggest Mr. Arter find living people to protect and defend. (And “No”, Carol Channing does not qualify as living).
Currently listening:
Gypsy - A Musical Fable (1959 Original Broadway Cast)
By Jule Styne
Release date: 1999-05-18
11:24 AM
 
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