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"Hey, I'm no hero... Just an ordinary guy keeping watch on the universe!"... Sleep easy... |
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My Granddaughters Sofie and Lauren
Traveling to Seattle to see their uncle Dean and his new bride |
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My Granddaughter Kayla
She is three years old and is Minny Mouse on this Holloween in 2007 |
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Victor and Sibylle
Victor and Sibille Addotta, my son and his wife watch seven foot shark caught at Venice beach |
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Victor and Sibylle
Victor and Sibille Addotta at Lakeside, CA.. 2007 |
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Kayla
Easter Sunday 2007 |
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Kayla
Kayla is clowning around at a recent barbecue. |
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Bennett Family Reunion
My first wife Mary Bennett gave me two beautiful children and a large group to call family. Pictured here are all of us together again! June of 2006 |
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Kayla
Kayla, my newest granddaughter is beginning to get up on her hands and knees in preparation for crawling! |
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Kip Addotta
Here I am playing Governor Critenden of Missouri, circa 1879. This shot was taken during the filming of "Jessy James"! He's the guy who put the hit out on Jessy. |
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Allen Nechy
My friend, Allen nechy plays Tennis every Friday morning. He works as and is the best salesman I have ever met and I've met a few! Allen also loves to shoot pool and go to movies. He is an expert at both! He also likes to go to the track and bust my balls! |
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Kayla
Now, I think I may not be crazy! My granddaughter, Kayla, is the most beautiful baby ever born! |
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Joyce Addotta Wolf
Joyce and I have become very close. We speak on the phone several times a week and compare thoughts and memories of our youth. |
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Victor & Sibylle
My son and daughter in-law Victor and Sibylle Addotta pose for a picture on New Years Eve, 2004. |
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Kayla
New Granddaughter 12/19/04. The gloating lamp is lit! Am I crazy or is Kayla the most beautiful baby you've ever seen? . |
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Kathy & Kayla
Kip Addotta 12/04/04. My beautiful daughter Kathy and her little girl Kayla. |
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Mid morning at Morrow Bay
Kip Addotta 11/27/04 600. US |
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The Addotta Gang
Don't even think about it!! |
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Kayla
Born on October 14th at 6:40 p.m., 6lbs, 14oz. We are all very happy!! |
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Addotta Fine Woodwork
My son Victor demonstrating some of the fine wood he gets at his cabinet shop, in Culver City. 2004. For more info, click on the picture! |
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Sofia Addotta
My grand daughter Sofia Addotta graduates from kindergarden, 2004. |
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Lauren Addotta
She's eight years old and I'm not sure she knows who I am. |
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Kathryn
My daughter Kathryn is now Mrs. Kathryn. She and her husband Michael were married on January 17th, 2004. |
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Victor Addotta
My son Victor Addotta at a recent party. 2004 |
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Sheryl Addotta and CO.
My daughter in law Sheryl and my grand children Lauren and Sophia |
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My grand daughter Sofia
My granddaughter, Sofia, is four and what a treat she is. |
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Lauren Addotta
My grand daughter Lauren dances around in her new costume. |
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Frank Addotta
My son and the father of my granddaughters. Frank works as a prop and set builder in the film industry. 2003 |
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Jack Sheldon
It's my birthday weekend and last night we went to see Jack Sheldon and his big band at The Catalina Bar & Grill, in Hollywood!. |
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The Kids
Kathy, Sybille Addotta, Mikeal, Sharyl Addotta, Frank Addotta and Victor Addotta. |
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A trip to Germany
In 2000 my oldest son, Victor, his wife, Sybille and Lynn Addotta went to Germany to visit Sibylle's family. From left to right, Victor Addotta, Sibylle Addotta and Lynn Addotta. They are pictured here in Berlin. |
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Kip on the Bill Maher Show
Politically Incorrect, 1998, is a show that really didn't work for me. The show claims to be politically incorrect!? |
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Brand New Lauren Addotta
My son frank and daughter in-law Sheryl gave us the most beautiful little girl! Now she is six and as mean as a snake but we're delighted to have her around! |
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Show Ticket
An evening in Brentwood California. |
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Kip Addotta in Vegas
Kip seated on the steps of the Riviera hotel in Las Vegas! |
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Frank Addotta gets married
1995,Frank Addotta and Sheryl Iwatate were married in Lake Tahoe in 1995! I cried! |
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Kip Addotta
I think I was a little hung over in this one. |
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Kip Addotta
In 1990 I began a relationship with Linda. A beautiful redhead! And for the next eight years we seldom got out of bed |
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My 1964 Lincoln
I bought this 1964 Lincoln for fifteen hundred and fixed it up. Later I gave it to my son, Victor. |
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Kip getting ready for a show
I remember watching my Father get dressed for an evening of dancing. This picture reminds me of him and Salvador Dali. I think I had thrown Linda out, again and was going to Tana's to get drunk! |
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Linda Kroncke
I met Linda in Houston TX and we lived together for eight years. She left and moved to Boston. There is so much more to say but I cannot say them here. Linda died a few years later and as her father said, "God has another flower in his garden". |
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Kip Addotta and The Bitches
In 1985 I shot the cover for my new CD "The Comedian Of The United States. My back up singers were Marina Torpin and Lauren Adems, "Ma Bitches". |
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Kip Addotta on Make Me Laugh
I 1985, 86, 87, 88, I was a regular on "Make Me Laugh". These were the most challenging shows. We used every idea. George Foster gave us a lot of space. |
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Kip Addotta with Lou Rawls
This picture was taken at the Diplomat Hotel, in Miami! I was at the top of my form and working with Lou always ment a hot show. It was puring this gig that I met Sammy Davis Jr. and won The Entertainment Writers, Comedian of the Year Award! |
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Kip Addotta
Ah, my Farrari Dino convertable! I loved this car and it is in perfect condition! These are the days! |
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Kip Addotta
Kip Addotta publicity shot! |
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Victoria Sondheim
Hi Kip... just returning from lots of travel and shele & i live in studio city. still at the same job, now in santa monica. you actually met my husband. we were staying at the roosevelt hotel on christmas and you came in for the brunch. and i believe you and shele got together one time after that. no kids. just us big ones. being one of the "b*tch*s" will always be one of the great memories of my life. we had fun. Vee Vee Wonderful to hear from you! Yes, they were wonderful times and I think of you all the time. Where are you? I take it that you are married now. Any children? I remember how, one day, you taught me how to sing. "Think of the note, hear the not in your mind and then sing the note! Great advice! Kip ! |
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Kip Addotta as cowboy
As a lark, I had this picture taken! |
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Kip Addotta and family
In 1984 I was signed with The William Morris agency and had this picture taken to send to all the agents there. I wanted them to know that I was a family man and needed to be kept working. From left to right, Kathy, Frank, Lynn, myself and Victor who had just broken his leg in a skiing accident at Lake Tahoe. I asked my family to look as sad as possible for this shot. |
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Kip Addotta
Taken in 1984, this is my favorite picture. To me, it embodies the essence of what I am!.. Great looking in a suit! In 1984 I was still traveling with Mega Stars, opening there shows on long tours around America and the world.It was about this time I decided to go out on my own and headline my own shows. It was the right time and one of the smartest things I have ever done! |
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Kip and Bonnie
Kip and a friend, Bonnie, at the opening of a club! 1986! |
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Kip Addotta
In 1984 I was on the cover of Performance Magazine! At the time I was traveling with my back up singers "Ma Bitches". Between the traveling and the fighting we did some great shows! |
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Kip Addotta and Lou Rawls
Lou Rawls and I were appearing at the Diplomat Hotel, in Miami. This is where I first met Sammy Davis Jr.. It was also, during this engagement that I won "The Comedian of the Year Award" fome the "Entertainment Writers of America" |
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Kip Addotta
I made this fedora famous! By the time I was done hate makers had made a fortune and I loved wearing it. I do not know of anyone who does not look great in a fedora. 1978 |
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Victor Addotta
In 1976, Victor got very drunk, at school. The rest of the story is below. |
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Kip Addotta
Laughing at my own joke! Not a good habit to get into but sometimes I do make myself laugh. Boy am I cute! |
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Victor Addotta
In 1974 I was starting to do TV. Victor is Mr. cool, here, in a school photo! |
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Kip Addotta
Taken at The Comedy Store shortly after I started doing The Tonight Show |
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Kip Addotta
Here I am working material out at the Comedy Store. 1975 |
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Kip Addotta
Another PR photo. |
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Kip Addotta
I hate funny pictures and yet here I am trying to look funny or Woody Allen or Stan Laurel. 1975 |
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Little Vic
Victor begins to notice girls and the constant smile leaves and the self awareness comes.. |
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That cigar
Every year uncle Victor would visit from NY. He would take me hunting or to visit other relatives. "If you live fast you'll never last. If you live slow you've got to go". Yes, he had mob connections! |
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First pictures in L.A.
This is one of the first publicity photos I posed for in Los Angeles! It was 1974. I had just gotten my first well paying gig and had bought this outfit in Lake Tahoe, hours before my opening show at The Sahara Tahoe. |
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Victor Addotta
All dressed up and ready to shine, my son, Victor looks pretty happy. |
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Victor Addotta
All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth and a toy train. |
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Mr. Kip
Did I mention that my first career was that of a hairdresser? One of my patrons was an artist. One day, while under the dryer, she did this caricature of me as I worked on another customer. Yes, I was that thin! |
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Frank Addotta
My third child was named after Frank Sinatra. My new wife Lynn not only gave me a child but also raised my two children Victor and Kathy. Frank is loved equally to my first children but sometimes would disagree. |
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Kip and Victor
My son Victor is three years old, today. Or do I mean that day? Yes, a long time ago. I am twenty one, in this picture. YIKES!! |
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Lynn and Kip
This is my second wife Lynn. She was a God-send. She took on my children and I and raised us all. She also gave me another son, Frank. |
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Victor Addotta
My son, Victor, at six. Victor was always good with his hands. Here he makes himself busy with his coloring book. |
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Out in the back yard
Another family get together in my fathers back yard. My uncle Victor is behind the camera. |
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Addotta's from N.Y.
These people extended so many sweet kindnesses to me, when I was a child, that I wanted you see a picture of my aunt Eileen, uncle Victor and their clan. |
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Mary Addotta
Another summer at Leving's Lake. My son Victor and my pregnant wife, Mary. |
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Victor in diapers
My new born son Victor! I was working in a box factory, making about a hundred dollars a week. Before taxes! And yet somehow there was never enough money. |
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Art Beauty, 1958
This is an old publicity photo my uncle had made for his beauty salon (Art Beauty) on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn, N.Y.It shows my aunt Eilean holding my uncle victor in her hands. Pure fiction! But didn't he do a lovely job with her hair. |
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Grandma and Uncle Vic
My grandmother and my Uncle Victor pose on the easy chair, in my home. |
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Vic and Dad
My father was very strict and I was afraid of him. Very afraid! He would fly into a rage and I would wet my pants! My grandmother would protect me from him, so to avoid this, he would wait until Sunday and drive me into the factory section of town, where no one could see, and apply his discipline. |
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Kip and Mary, prom night
Kip Addotta and Mary Bennett on their prom night |
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Mary, Kip and?
Mary, Kip and someone called Yellow Bird. |
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Mary Bennett
Mary Bennett at sixteen. The fellow who took this picture lived next door to her and was much older than she was. I didn't like this picture at all. It made me think there was something going on between them. |
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Kip & Mary
Kip and Mary at a family picnic in Rockford IL. |
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My cousin Joyce
My cousin Joyce and her new baby at Coney Island, NY in 1959 |
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Hop along Addotta's
I always admired my uncle Victors taste in clothes! He was the real role model, in life. Not a perfect man but a man with class and flash. Here, on a visit to Rockford. |
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1955
You don't live like my Uncle victor did by being a hairdresser. The real money was in a card game he ran in his Brooklyn flat. The who's who of N.Y. played in my Uncles games. The game went on for three days a week. Victor would supply a dealer, a buffet and cots to sleep on. He would take five percent of each pot and would also play. |
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Kip Grade School Graduation
Pretty cool huh! This is me on the day I graduated from St. Mary's grade school, in Rockford IL. 1954 |
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Ron Dawn and Kip
My cousins Ronny and Dawn and myself at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. |
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1952 we were all lined up on the couch at my house. These were great times!
Pretty cool huh! This is me on the day I graduated from St. Mary's grade school, in Rockford IL. |
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Uncle Victor
Uncle Victor standing in front of his beauty salon, Art Beauty, on Flatbush Ave, in Brooklyn NY! |
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Picnic in the back yard
1953 and one of my favorite things to do! Having the family to our house for a picnic. I felt safe from my dad when there were family members around! |
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Piggly Wiggly
1948, another picture of my sainted grandmother, Francis with my uncle victor aunt Eileen. As was the custom in Italy, when my grandfather died, my grandmother started wearing black clothing and did so for the rest of her life. |
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Coney Island
The two adults at the center are my aunt Grace and uncle Mike! |
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My cousin Jerry Kozinski
My Grandmother and my cousin Jerry Kozinski |
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Aunt Eileen and Joyce
In 1945, my Grandfather, Jasper, and my Grandmother Francis were visited by my aunt Eileen and her daughter Joyce. |
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On the stoop
From Left, my cousin Joyce's boyfriend, Bobby Martin, Joyce, cousin Ron, Billy Quinn (Joyce's future husband) and yours truly! |
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Vis and Eileen
On one of his visits to Rockford, IL, my uncle Victor met Eileen. He promptly moved her to NY and divorced his wife. Some people might think this was terrible but since I didn't know his first wife I cannot feel bad about it. Besides, I loved my one and only aunt Eileen! |
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Uncle Victor
As you can see Victor Addotta was a fine dresser and a handsome man! |
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Uncle vic and Dad
Two young studs who avoided the draft. My father (On the left) because he was a machinist and The United States needed skilled workers to stay home and build the machinery of war. My uncle Victor because he had horses and women to ride and we couldn't spare him for the war effort. |
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Aunt Eileen
My aunt Eileen was the first woman I ever saw naked. One day I opened the bathroom door and there she was, sitting in the tub. OUCH! I do not think I have ever been the same. |
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Jasper and Frances Addotta
My grandmother, Francis, had eight children. One did not survive infancy. . |
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Uncle Victor's first wife
The 1941 wedding of Betty and Victor Addotta was attended by all the most important figures from both the upper crust and the under world of Brooklyn. Victor left Betty for Eileen Magilacutty who became one of my favorite aunts. |
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My Grandparents
Another great picture of the Addotta family! |
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