Gennifer Flowers (born January 24, 1950) is a model and actress who allegedly had a sexual relationship with former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Prior to Bill Clinton's presidency, she also posed nude for Penthouse magazine and was an actress in two films and one TV show. After becoming a celebrity, she acted as herself in two films and guest starred as herself in various TV shows.

The Bill Clinton controversy[link]

Gennifer Flowers came forward during Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential election campaign, alleging that she had had a 12-year relationship with him.^[1] Flowers at first denied that she had an affair with Clinton, but later changed her story.^[2]

After Bill Clinton denied having a relationship with Flowers on 60 Minutes, she held a press conference in which she played tape recordings she had secretly recorded of phone calls with Clinton.^[2] Clinton subsequently apologized publicly to Mario Cuomo for remarks he made about the then-Governor of New York on the tapes. However, news reports at the time speculated that the taped phone conversations between Flowers and Clinton could have been doctored.^[2][3] Clinton aides James Carville and George Stephanopoulos also backed this claim as well.^[4] George Stephanopoulos later claimed in a 2000 interview with journalist Tim Russert that "Oh, it was absolutely his voice, but they were selectively edited in a way to - to create some - some impression."^[5]

In December 1996, Gennifer Flowers talked about her sexual relationship with Bill Clinton on The Richard Bey Show. The show was canceled the following day. Richard Bey later attributed a direct connection between the two consecutive events.^[6]

In his presidential deposition in January 1998, while denying Kathleen Willey's sexual accusations against him, Bill Clinton admitted that he had a sexual encounter with Flowers.^[7] In 1998, Flowers admitted that she had made a total net profit of $500,000 by publicizing her alleged affair with Clinton to Penthouse, Star Magazine and other news sources.^[8] In his 2004 autobiography My Life, Clinton acknowledged testifying under oath that he had an encounter with Flowers. He stated it was only on one occasion in 1977.^[7][8][9] However, it has not been proven exactly what type of sexual advances Clinton made during this 1977 encounter.^[9]

Flowers sued George Stephanopoulos, James Carville and others in 1999 for defamation (later amending the suit in 2000 to include Hillary Rodham Clinton as a defendant), claiming that they orchestrated a campaign to discredit her. Judicial Watch represented her in her defamation lawsuit against Hillary's former aides, Stephanopoulos and Carville.^[10] In her case, Flowers argued that the defendants ignored obvious warning signs that the television news reports did not conclusively determine that someone had interfered with the tapes.^[11] Summary judgment dismissing the case was given by a US district court in 2004.^[11] The dismissal was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in 2006.^[12]

Post controversy years[link]

Gennifer Flowers published her memoir Gennifer Flowers: Passion and Betrayal in 1995. In it, she claimed she had experienced a sexual naïveté at the time of her alleged relationship with Clinton.^{[citation needed]}

She posed nude for Penthouse magazine during this period and was featured in the December 1992 issue along with her story "Gennifer Flowers Tells All, Shows All".

After already being an actress in an Australian film in 1987, she played in another independent Australian film in 1992 and in the same year guest starred in the adult themed television comedy Dream On. She then played herself in Play It to the Bone and various TV shows.

Until Hurricane Katrina, she ran a cabaret called the Kelsto Club in a former bordello in New Orleans's French Quarter. As of 2007, she lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she occasionally writes a column.^[13]

In 2008, she put the answering machine tapes of her conversations with Bill Clinton up for auction.^[14]

Filmography[link]

• Frenchman's Farm (1987), Mrs. Grenville
• Redheads (aka Desperate Prey) (1992), Carolyn
• The War Room (1993), herself
• Play It to the Bone (1999), herself
• Definitely, Maybe (2008), herself

TV appearances[link]

• The Howard Stern Show, herself - in "Episode dated 1 February 1992" (1992)
• Dream On (TV series) - in the episode "And Bimbo Was His Name-O" (1992)
• The Richard Bey Show, herself - in the episode "Clinton Scandals" (1996). The show was cancelled the following day and Richard Bey later attributed a direct connection between the two consecutive events
• WrestleMania XIV (1998), herself
• The Frank Skinner Show, herself - in episode #2.7 (1998)
• Where Are They Now? (VH1 TV series), herself - in the episode "Notorious & Newsworthy" (2000)
• Weakest Link (US), herself - in the episode "Newsmakers Edition" (2001)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• "Gennifer Flowers". NNDB. http://www.nndb.com/people/035/000024960/. 
• Gennifer Flowers at the Internet Movie Database

Richard Bey
Bey at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Born	(1951-07-22) July 22, 1951 (age 60) Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Talk show host, TV and radio personality
Years active	? - present
Website
http://richardbey.org/

Richard Wayne Bey (born July 22, 1951) is an American talk show host. He was popular in the 1990s as host of The Richard Bey Show, a daytime talk show containing ordinary people's personal stories incorporated into entertaining competitive games.

Early years[link]

Bey was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York, to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother and attended Far Rockaway High School.^[1][2] Prior to The Richard Bey Show, Bey hosted People Are Talking (telecast in New York City and Philadelphia) and 2 On the Town for WCBS-TV. He is an alumnus of the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Yale School of Drama. The show was called 9 Broadcast Plaza in its early years before changing its name to The Richard Bey Show.

The Richard Bey Show[link]

The Richard Bey Show (1987–1996) was produced from WWOR-TV in Secaucus, New Jersey and later syndicated across the country by All American Television. It featured such competitive events as the "Miss Big Butt" contest, the "Mr. Puniverse" contest, "Dysfunctional Family Feud" and "Blacks who think O.J. is guilty vs. Whites who think he is innocent." Young women who were guests on the show were sometimes placed in a spoof of The Dating Game in which the guest interviewed three hidden "bachelors", all of whom were an obvious mismatch for the "bachelorette" (e.g., a drag queen or a dwarf). Bey's show made frequent use of sound effects like "uh-duh" for an insane response, "I've been framed" for a guest proclaiming innocence and "You're busted!" for one accused of wrongdoing. Bey would often exclaim "Where do they find these people?!" in the presence of unbelievable guests or audience members. During some shows, there would be a secret word, and if an audience member used it in a comment, he would receive $100 (an homage to a prior talk and game show, You Bet Your Life). A joking suggestion was then made on how to spend it: "Lobster dinner tonight!"

The show was a precursor to reality television, featuring a variety of games incorporating guests' stories, most notoriously "The Wheel of Torture", in which a guest would be strapped to a spinning wheel while a spouse or lover poured slime on them as punishment for a misdeed. The show was executive produced by Bob Woodruff and David Sittenfeld.

Richard would frequently make fun of Jerry Springer on his show, as when he lost his contact lenses and was forced to wear eyeglasses, remarking, "Don't worry, you're not watching Jerry Springer" and showing Jerry in his "Bad Neighbors" segment, a reference to Springer's show being the lead-in or lead-out to Bey on many stations in the early-to-mid 1990s. He would also make light of Ricki Lake, Rosie O'Donnell, Phil Donahue, and Oprah Winfrey's shows. Bey also hosted a prime time show called "Night Games". It was short-lived but ran around the time his daytime show was at its peak. It ran after 10 o'clock and was a little more gratuitous, mostly sexually clad women engaged in contests.

Bey claimed his TV show was canceled in December 1996 (despite the high ratings it maintained^{[citation needed]}) as a direct result of doing a program with Gennifer Flowers, discussing her sexual relationship with then President Bill Clinton.^[3]

A scene from the film Brüno depicts the filming of an episode of a fictional variation on the show called Today with Richard Bey. The production team, along with Bey, set up the program to invite an unsuspecting audience to participate in a segment where Brüno (Sacha Baron Cohen) appears as a guest, talking about his adopted son who is black. In response to questions from the audience, Brüno reveals that he gave his son the "traditional African name" O.J. and claims that he "swapped" an iPod for his son. The predominantly black audience becomes outraged over Brüno's responses.

Radio years[link]

After the TV show was canceled, Bey was an evening and later afternoon radio co-host along with Steve Malzberg on The Buzz, which aired on New York's WABC from 2000 to 2003.^[4]

According to the New York Post, he was one of only two talk hosts at the time on commercial New York radio to openly oppose the Iraq War, contesting the WMD evidence.^{[citation needed]} He has since hosted on Sirius Satellite Radio, The Bill Press Show, and for the syndicated Wall Street Journal: This Morning.

Bey hosted for a week on WXRK 92.3 FM from February 5 to February 9, 2007 from 10:00 PM to midnight. He regularly fills in for Lynn Samuels and Alex Bennett on the Sirius Satellite Radio channel Talk Left when they go on vacation or take a day off.

In August 2007, Bey began hosting a new show on WWRL in New York City from 8-10 PM. In November 2007, he was teamed up with Mark Riley and moved to the morning drive, replacing the team of Sam Greenfield and Armstrong Williams.^[5]

In March 2008, family reasons caused Mark Riley to leave WWRL by mutual agreement^[6] to return to WLIB, and Richard was teamed up with long time broadcaster Coz Carson. Bey later decided to leave WWRL himself, citing personal reasons (namely spending time with his son).

Until December 2009, he appeared daily on internet TV station UBA-TV from 12:00 PM until 1:00 PM. He currently fills in on Sirius Left and hosts a blog at richardbey.org.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Richard Bey's website
• Richard Bey at the Internet Movie Database
• The Richard Bey Show at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard' Bey's Facebook Message App

Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin; September 17, 1966) is a former Arkansas state employee who sued U.S. President Bill Clinton for sexual harassment. The lawsuit was dismissed before trial on the grounds that Jones failed to demonstrate any damages. However, while the dismissal was being appealed, Clinton entered into an out-of-court settlement, agreeing to pay Jones and her attorneys a total of $850,000.

The Paula Jones case precipitated Clinton's impeachment. Charges of perjury and obstruction of justice were brought against Clinton based on statements he made during the depositions for the Jones lawsuit. The specific statements were about the nature of his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, with whom he denied having a sexual relationship.

Early life[link]

Jones was born in Lonoke, Arkansas. She was raised a member of the Church of the Nazarene, the daughter of a minister of that church.^[1]

Jones v. Clinton[link]

Background[link]

According to Jones' account, on May 8, 1991, Paula Jones was escorted to the room of Clinton, then Governor of Arkansas, in the Excelsior^[2][3][4] (now Peabody) Hotel in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he propositioned her. She claimed she kept quiet about the incident until 1994, when a David Brock story in the conservative magazine American Spectator told a lurid account, sometimes referred to as Troopergate, about an Arkansas employee named "Paula" who offered to be Clinton's girlfriend. Jones filed a sexual harassment suit against Clinton on May 6, 1994, two days prior to the 3-year statute of limitations, and sought $750,000 in damages.^[5]

In his book, Blinded by the Right, David Brock later claimed that in order to maintain journalistic integrity, he agreed to write the Troopergate article only if the four state troopers whom he interviewed were not paid. A conservative fundraiser later admitted that he had paid each of the troopers $6,700 behind Brock's back. Following the admission, Brock publicly apologized to President Clinton for his Troopergate story, which he stated was written not "in the interest of good government or serious journalism," but as part of an "anti-Clinton crusade."^[6]

Initial lawsuit[link]

Jones was initially represented by Gilbert Davis and Joseph Cammarata, two Washington, D.C.-area lawyers. Susan Carpenter-McMillan, a California conservative commentator, became her press spokesperson. Carpenter-McMillan wasted no time in using the press to attack Clinton to a much greater degree, calling him "un-American," a "liar," and a "philanderer" on Meet the Press, Crossfire, Equal Time, Larry King Live, Today, The Geraldo Rivera Show, Burden of Proof, Hannity & Colmes, Talkback Live, and other shows. "I do not respect a man who cheats on his wife, and exposes his penis to a stranger," she said.^[7]

Judge Susan Webber Wright granted President Clinton's motion for summary judgment, ruling that Jones could not show that she had suffered any damages. Jones appealed the dismissal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, where, at oral argument, two of the three judges on the panel appeared sympathetic to her arguments.^[8]

Clinton and his defense team then challenged Jones' right to bring a civil lawsuit against a sitting president for an incident that occurred prior to the defendant's becoming president. The Clinton defense team took the position that the trial should be delayed until the president was no longer in office, because the job of the president is unique and does not allow him to take time away from it to deal with a private civil lawsuit. The case went through the courts, eventually reaching the Supreme Court on January 13, 1997. On May 27, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against Clinton, and allowed the lawsuit to proceed.^[2] Clinton dismissed Jones' story and agreed to move on with the lawsuit.^[9]

On August 29, 1997, Jones' attorneys Gilbert Davis and Joseph Cammarata asked to resign from the case believing the settlement offer they had secured, which Jones refused, was the appropriate way to end the case.^[10] In September, Judge Wright accepted their request.^[5]

Jones was then represented by the Rutherford Institute, a conservative legal organization, and by a Dallas law firm. Carpenter-McMillan continued to serve as Jones' spokesperson. In December of 1997, Jones reduced the damages sought in her suit against Clinton to $525,000 and agreed to remove Danny Ferguson from the suit.^[5]

Conclusion of case[link]

On November 13, 1998, Clinton settled with Jones for $850,000, the entire amount of her claim, but without an apology, in exchange for her agreement to drop the appeal. Robert S. Bennett, Clinton's attorney, still maintained that Jones' claim was baseless and that Clinton only settled so he could end the lawsuit and move on with his life.^[8] In March 1999, Judge Wright ruled that Jones would only get $200,000 from the settlement and that the rest of the money would pay for her legal expenses.^[11]

Before the end of the entire litigation, her marriage broke apart and she appeared in the news media to show the results of a nose job paid for by a donor.^[12].^[13]

In April 1999, Judge Wright found Clinton in civil contempt of court for misleading testimony in the Jones case. She ordered Clinton to pay $1,202 to the court and an additional $90,000 to Jones' lawyers for expenses incurred.^[14][15][16] Far less than the $496,000 that the lawyers originally requested.^[16]

Wright then referred Clinton's conduct to the Arkansas Bar for disciplinary action, and on January 19, 2001, the day before Clinton left office, he entered into an agreement with the Arkansas Bar and Independent Counsel Robert Ray under which Clinton was stripped of his license to practice law for a period of five years.^[17] His fine was paid from a fund raised for his legal expenses.

Lewinsky scandal connection[link]

Jones's lawyers decided to show to the court a pattern of behavior by Clinton that involved his allegedly repeatedly becoming sexually involved with state or government employees. Jones's lawyers therefore subpoenaed women they suspected Clinton had had affairs with, one of whom was Monica Lewinsky. In his deposition for the Jones lawsuit, Clinton denied having "sexual relations" with Monica Lewinsky. Based on evidence provided by Linda Tripp, which identified the existence of a blue dress with Clinton's semen on it, Kenneth Starr concluded that this sworn testimony was false and perjurious.

During the deposition in the Jones case, Clinton was asked, "Have you ever had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky, as that term is defined in Deposition Exhibit 1, as modified by the Court?" The judge ordered that Clinton be given an opportunity to review the definition. It said that "a person engages in sexual relations when the person knowingly engages in or causes contact with the genitalia, anus, groin, breast, inner thigh, or buttocks of any person with an intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person."^[18][19][20] Clinton flatly denied having sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky.^[21] Later, at the Starr Grand Jury, Clinton stated that he believed the definition of sexual relations agreed upon for the Jones deposition excluded his receiving oral sex. It was upon the basis of this statement that the perjury charges in his impeachment were drawn up. Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives on December 19, 1998, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. But despite Republican control of the Senate, Republicans were unable to muster the required two-thirds supermajority to convict, with 45 senators voting guilty on the perjury charge and 50 on the obstruction charge.

Life following the Clinton lawsuit[link]

Jones' legal fund did not cover the attorneys' fees, and Jones's personal life was disrupted during the controversy: she was divorced by her husband, purchased a house after the settlement, and incurred a large tax bill, then posed nude for Penthouse, claiming that she would use the money to pay the tax and fund her two grade-school-aged children's college education. This caused her to be publicly denounced as "trailer-park trash" by conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who said, "I totally believed she was the good Christian girl who had suffered sexual harassment. That is what she made herself out to be.... [N]ow it turns out she's a fraud, at least to the extent of pretending to be an honorable and moral person." Jones attempted to defend herself on Larry King Live, stating, "I haven't been out doing anything and trying to make a lot of money. I haven't been offered a book deal like everybody else in this huge thing has done. Ann Coulter's done books. I haven't seen her call me up and say: 'Paula, would you like for me to help you write a book, a really nice, decent book?' I haven't had any help from anybody whatsoever."

See also[link]

• Juanita Broaddrick, aka Jane Doe #5 in Jones' lawsuit
• Gennifer Flowers
• Kathleen Willey
• Monica Lewinsky

Further reading[link]

• Clinton, Bill (2005). My Life. Vintage. ISBN 1-4000-3003-X.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Barak, Daphne (1998-09-23). "Jones would have been happy with an apology". Irish Examiner. http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/1998/09/23/fhead.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
• Conason, Joe; Lyons, Gene (2000). The Hunting of the President. Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN 0-312-24547-5. 
• Givhan, Robin (1998-01-16). "Paula Jones's About-Face". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/pjones/stories/pj011698.htm. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
• Paula Jones at the Internet Movie Database

Ruth Wallis (5 January 1920 – 22 December 2007) was a novelty Popular cabaret singer.

Career[link]

Born Ruth Shirley Wohl in Brooklyn, New York, Wallis began her career singing jazz and cabaret standards - with such bands as Isham Jones and Benny Goodman on road tours for a couple of months; but gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s for her risqué, satirical songs, rife with double entendre that she wrote herself. She did have a mainstream hit with "Dear Mr. Godfrey," a song about Godfrey's public firing of Julius La Rosa, that reached #25 in late 1953.

She sang with a studio orchestra and often took on an accent for songs about characters from other countries. Her music was occasionally featured on the Doctor Demento show in the 1970s.

She started singing in lounges and cocktail bars, where she met her husband Hy Pastman. Eventually it became clear that her novelty songs, which relied mostly upon double entendres, were the most popular. These songs discussed a number of topics that were taboo in fifties America, such as homosexuality and infidelity. For this reason, her songs were banned from Boston radio stations. She often had difficulty securing distribution for her works, so she started her own record label, Wallis Original Recordings. When she arrived in Australia for a tour customs agents seized her records. Rather than ruin her career, this only brought out crowds.

Wallis retired in the 1970s to spend more time with her husband and two children, but continued to work on material for Broadway shows. Some of her most famous songs were collected and became the Off-Broadway hit, BOOBS! The Musical: The World According to Ruth Wallis. BOOBS! opened at the Triad Theater in New York City on May 19, 2003; by closing date it had played nearly 300 performances. Produced and choreographed by Lawrence Leritz, it has had subsequent runs in New Orleans and Wichita.

In March 2007 Wallis was honored by the National Archives of Australia. Memorabilia of hers was included in 'Memory of a Nation', a permanent exhibition opening in Canberra.

Wallis died on December 22, 2007, in South Killingly, Connecticut, from complications of Alzheimer's Disease.

[edit] Track listing for Ruth Wallis' Greatest Hits - Boobs

1. "Queer Things"
2. "Boobs"
3. "Drill 'Em All"
4. "Ubangi"
5. "The Pistol Song"
6. "He'd Rather Be A Girl"
7. "Follies Bergere"
8. "Admiral's Daughter"
9. "Pizza"
10. "De Gay Young Lad"
11. "The Pop-Up Song"
12. "Cape Canaveral Blues"
13. "The Army Gave My Husband Back"
14. "The Dinghy Song" (often confused with a similar song "Davy's Dinghy")
15. "Freddie The Fisherman's Song"
16. "Hawaiian Lei Song"
17. "The Same Little Yo-Yo"
18. "Marriage Jewish Style"
19. "The Bell Song"

Wallis Original Records[link]

Wallis Original Records was a record label which was started in 1952 by Joel Leibowitz & Hy Pastman to release records by Ruth Wallis, the "queen of the double entendre". Their last release was Ruth Wallis' Greatest Hits — Boobs on December 1, 1998.

References[link]

• Ruth Wallis, Singer-Writer of Risqué Songs, Dies at 87 By MARGALIT FOX at the New York Times on January 3, 2008
• Boobs! The Musical.com
• Ruth Wallis: Return of the Saucy Chanteuse, an article originally published in Goldmine magazine, written by Chuck Miller

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Ruth Wallis at Find a Grave
• Ruth Wallis tracks available for streaming

Lawrence Leritz
Leritz in 2011
Born	September 26, 1962 Alton, Illinois

Lawrence Leritz (born September 26, 1962) is an American dancer, singer, actor, producer, fitness expert and choreographer.

Life and career[link]

Born in Alton, Illinois, Leritz made his stage debut in the children's chorus of the world stage premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical State Fair at The Muny, starring Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, directed by James Hammerstein, supervised by Richard Rodgers and choreographed by Tommy Tune.

Leritz moved to New York City on scholarships to the Harkness Ballet, Joffrey Ballet and School of American Ballet, studying with Alexandra Danilova, Stanley Williams and the Bolshoi's Māris Liepa. Leritz was invited to work with the dance choreographers George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey, Robert Joffrey, Ruth Page, Frederic Franklin, John Neumeier, Lee Theodore, Joe Layton and Sir Frederick Ashton. Leritz's first major dance companies included The New York City Ballet, where during a company class, he was discovered by Balanchine ballerina Violette Verdy. Violette invited Lawrence to join The Hamburg Ballet. While performing in Hamburg, his dancing impressed Dance Magazine's editor-in-chief William Como, who invited Leritz back to the U.S. to continue his dancing career and for photo sessions with famed dance photographer Kenn Duncan for Dance Magazine. Leritz continued his career starring with Ruth Page's Chicago Ballet, Israel's Bat-Dor Dance Company and with the Paris Opéra on its U.S. tour to the Metropolitan Opera and DC's Kennedy Center. Lawrence appeared as guest artist and choreographer for Plácido Domingo's Los Angeles Music Center Opera and danced in the Joffrey Ballet version of Michel Fokine's "Petrushka" with Rudolf Nureyev at the New York City Center. Leritz created his own company, Dance Celebration, which represented the United States at the International Choreographic Competitions in Paris, performing his signature ballet, "Worth A Song," receiving special congratulations from President Jimmy Carter at The White House in 1979. Leritz appeared three times on the cover of Dance Pages Magazine, including the Spring 1989 issue, in which he wrote an article which introduced and encouraged bodybuilding for dancers. Appearing on the cover with bodybuilding champion Rich Gaspari, his article helped to change the look of professional dancers.^[1] In 2006, Leritz was included in Harvard University's George Balanchine Collection of The New York City Ballet at The Harvard Theatre Collection and The Harvard College Library. Leritz appeared Off-Broadway in "Funding The Arts" at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, May 2010, acting and dancing the role of J. Edgar.^{[2] [3]}

Leritz appeared on Broadway in the Jerome Robbins directed revival of Fiddler on the Roof with Herschel Bernardi and Maria Karnilova,^[4] Fonteyn & Nureyev on Broadway,^[5] and American Dance Machine. Leritz returned to co-star at The Muny with Broadway's Judy Kaye, John Reardon, John Schuck, Beth Leavel and his dance partner, Lorene Yarnell in Cole Porter's Can-Can.^[6]

Leritz has also acted in many feature films including Julie Taymor's Across the Universe,^[7] The Adjustment Bureau opposite Matt Damon,^[8] Dummy with Adrien Brody,^[9] Easy Money with Rodney Dangerfield,^[10] Legs with Gwen Verdon^[11] and the HBO feature Stag with Ben Gazzara, Kevin Dillon and Taylor Dayne.^[12] Leritz's television appearances include NBC's Saturday Night Live" with Nathan Lane,^[13] CBS's Capitol, ABC's All My Children, CBS's Cosby,^[14] and in HBO's Sex And The City;^[15] talk shows including The Rosie O'Donnell Show with Liza Minnelli,^[16] Maury,^[17] CNN's Showbiz Tonight and Entertainment Tonight.

Leritz is known in the fitness world as the choreographer to many bodybuilding stars, which included the NBC Sports television special "Arnold Schwarzenegger's Bodybuilding Arnold Classic" in 1989. Lawrence hosted and created the DVD Total Stretch! with Lawrence Leritz"^[18] and appears in numerous issues of Joe Weider's "Muscle & Fitness" and "Men's Fitness magazines.

Leritz produces for stage and television, including the annual television event "Day of Compassion", for which Time magazine honored Leritz as their 1996 Local Hero.^[19] During the 2003–2004 season, Leritz is the producer and choreographer of the long running Off-Broadway revue, Boobs! The Musical.^[20][21] "Boobs! The Musical" won New Orleans' 2005 Big Easy and Ambie Awards, Wichita's 2006 Teall Award and was nominated for the 2004 Mac Awards for Best Musical Revue. Leritz produced The 50th Anniversary Gala of The American Guild of Musical Artists, starring Beverly Sills and Peter Martins at The New York State Theatre at Lincoln Center in 1986. Lawrence also choreographed the Motown feature film, "The Last Dragon",^[22] the mime duo Shields & Yarnell for Atlantic City and for MTV.

Leritz is the Spectrum Records recording artist of the dance hit single "Crank It Up" produced by Cory Wade, performing on tour with The Weather Girls, Laura Branigan, Sylvester, Natalie Cole and starred at the Las Vegas Stardust Hotel during its final months.

Awards, nominations and citations[link]

• 2004 Mac Awards Best Musical Revue (Producer nominee)
• 2005 Big Easy Awards Best Musical (Producer nominee)
• 2006 Teall Awards Best Musical (Producer nominee)
• 2006 Teall Awards Best Choreography (nominee, based on original choreography by Lawrence Leritz)
• 1996 Time Magazine's Local Hero
• 1987 Lawrence Leritz Day Proclamation, Alton, Illinois
• 1983 Lawrence Leritz Day Proclamation, Wood River, Illinois

See also[link]

• Treehouse Trolls Birthday Day
• Songs of Youth and Discovery
• Kenn Duncan

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Lawrence Leritz at the Internet Movie Database
• Lawrence Leritz:Internet Broadway Database
• Broadway Space