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Are "Anna-lee Austin" and Oona (Elliot) Austin the same person, or two different women? Annalee is credited on the 1970 (Dwarf), 1971 (Bozos), and 1972 (Dear Friends and Not Insane) albums, while Oona starts showing up on the credits in 1973 (How Time Flys and Roller Maidens). Austin's obituary says he married Oona in 1971, which seems to imply they're the same person. There are photos on the web labled as each, but I can't really tell if they're the same person or not. Does anyone know how to find a reliable source to verify which is the case?
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The article is mostly complete and without major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards.
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Moving @ 24.49.204.10:'s recent addition here for discussion:
Bill McIntyre's first wife actress Barbara Reid had been at Yale Drama School with proctor and Bergman. McIntyre had trained as an actor under the teaching of former American Education Theater Director Rubin Plaskoff who spent some time working with the Moscow Art Theater. Plaskoff decided to start a theater department at LA Harbor College and McIntyre jumped aboard as an aspiring actor and performed in multiple Absurdest classic plays before making the leap to Hollywood where he immediately was drawn to producing. Though he optioned properties for films and produced shows for KCET TV the PBS Station he found the media denial about of the Vet Nam war psychotic to the point of madness. Upon hearing the test pressing of Waiting For The Electrician he told proctor it was the finest theater he’d encountered since College and wanted to work with the group. This lead to his long association with the Firesign Theater from 1967 to 2012 when the produced the Re-Dux of Radio Free Oz with Peter Bergman. Wanting to produce a syndication series with the Firesign pitched KPFK the station where it all started on the weekly series which they jumped at. ”I had to find station they wouldn’t get fired off of like they got fired off KRLA and KMET. And it worked like a charm. I got 12 wonderful masters of Dear Friends and then Let’s Eat which were syndicated to over a hundred college and commercial FM stations.” McIntyre also produced Martian Space Party, which was a political convention for the National Surrealist Light People’s Party to nominate George Papoon for President because he was NOT INSANE. McIntyre has chronicled this in his book Warrior Clowns due out in the fall of 2018. In it he also shares all the gigs he set up for the Firesign, TV shows mainly, that went south because the Firesign’s on-camera comedy was just to real and threatening to Hollywood types like Screen Gems and Lowman and Barkley who were told CBS would not allow the show to air as it was maybe too “Subversive”? “There is a classic batch of these Firesign stories in the book that show ya just how phony and really right wing all these supposedly oh so liberal stations and studios were. And all the Firesign had to do was sell-out a tad to a safer more commercial comedy style and they'd have been as big at Saturday Night Live. But there wasn't an inch of sell-out in any of them.”
Several things are wrong with this according to Wikipedia policy and guidelines:
Please do not put this back in unless you can tell us what reliable published sources you have which you can cite. JustinTime55 ( talk) 17:55, 22 May 2018 (UTC) JustinTime55 ( talk) 18:37, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
According to the WP:REDLINK guideline, red links in an article are appropriate when the topics are notable. The appropriate action in this case is to write the articles, not to remove the links (or link them to external sources) unless you can dispute notability. The following Firesign Theatre works (mostly albums) are notable and should have articles:
Write the Wikipedia instead of tearing down. JustinTime55 ( talk) 13:56, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
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