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Michael Elihu Colby's grandparents Mary and Ben B. Bodne had traded their southern oil fortune for the legendary but faded Algonquin Hotel in New York City and restored the hotel's former glory. Their efforts led to a remarkable renaissance and attracted an overflow of celebrities from the ridiculous to the sublime. Michael weaves a vivid tapestry of encounters with glittering Broadway and Hollywood celebrities in a kaleidoscopic memoir of illustrious figures--some on a meteoric rise, some in tragic decline--while he found his own place in the topsy-turvy world of the Broadway theatre and musicals.

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Michael Elihu Colby virtually grew up at New York's legendary Algonquin Hotel, which his grandparents, Ben and Mary Bodne, owned from 1946-1987. His adventures there are portrayed in the book The Algonquin Kid. In theatre circles, he is the librettist/lyricist of a number of musicals. A member of BMI and the Dramatists Guild, he lives in Metuchen, New Jersey, with his wife Andrea and son Steven.

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