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CONTACT: Juan Camaliche
The Cellar Club (305) 913.3203
e-mail: jcamaliche@biltmorehotel.com
THE BILTMORE INTERNATIONAL FOOD & WINE
WEEKEND
Presents Award-Winning Comedian Robert Klein in Wine & Giggles
Event
Coral Gables, FL— The Biltmore International Food & Wine
Weekend, in cooperation with Wine Spectator magazine, presents Wine
& Giggles on Friday, April 29, 2005 at 10 p.m. in the Granada
Ballroom. Celebrity comedian Robert Klein will headline the lighthearted
evening of laughter coupled with an open wine and martini bar. Priced
at $75.00 for members of The Cellar Club and $95.00 for non-members,
Wine & Giggles is a hilarious night enjoyed by connoisseurs,
collectors and wine appreciators alike.
Few comedians can boast a career as varied and successful as Robert
Klein. When Robert isn’t making a movie, or filming a one-man
concert, performing on Broadway, at the White House, hosting a television
show, or writing a book, he relaxes by regularly traveling the country
performing his brilliant comedy for sold-out houses.
To say that Klein’s show business career has been varied
would be an understatement. He has been a regular guest on “The
Tonight Show” for over 20 years, and has guest-hosted the
show on numerous occasions. He also appears regularly on “Late
Show with David Letterman” and “Late Night with Conan
O’Brien.” Klein also hosted “Saturday Night Live”
twice, and starred in the first “Cheeseburger” sketch
with John Belushi and Dan Akroyd.
After a year at Yale, followed by summer stock and a role in Mike
Nichols’ “Apple Tree,” Klein released his first
album, “Child of the Fifties” in 1973 that garnered
him a Grammy Award nomination for Best Comedy Album of the Year,
followed by “Mind over Matter” also nominated for a
Grammy.
In conjunction with the release of his album “Let’s
Not Make Love,” Klein filmed a music video of the title track,
hilariously depicting his quest for love in the safe-sex ‘90’s
as only Klein can. For the video, Klein tapped Geraldo Rivera, Joan
Rivers, Maury Povich, Capt. Lou Albano, Joe Franklin, Lisa Sliwa,
Vitas Gerulaitis, Bob Costas and Marv Albert for cameo appearances.
Probably no single event is more indicative of Klein’s success
than his first sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall in 1973, “The
First Annual Robert Klein Reunion.” In 1979, Klein returned
to Broadway in grand style with a Tony nomination for Best Actor,
and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his performance
in the hit musical, “They’re Playing Our Song,”
with Lucie Arnaz. At the same time Klein began hosting “The
Robert Klein Radio Show,” an internationally syndicated comedy-rock
show taped before a live audience that ran for two years.
In 1993, Klein starred in Wendy Wasserstein’s “The
Sisters Rosensweig,” winning both an Obie Award for Performance
and The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Performance by
an Actor.
Klein’s movie roles include “Hooper,” starring
Burt Reynolds, “The Owl and the Pussycat,” with Barbra
Streisand, “Safety of Objects,” with Glenn Close, and
“People I Know,” with Al Pacino. No stranger to television
movies, his 1988 episode of “Family Ties” was nominated
for an Emmy Award. Klein has also appeared on “The King of
Queens.” His 1982 show, “Robert Klein at Yale,”
has been added to the permanent collection of The Museum of Broadcasting.
From 1986 through 1988, Klein also hosted “Robert Klein Time”
on the USA Network, his own weekly talk/variety/comedy show that
was nominated for seven Ace Awards.
In 1991-1992 Klein hosted the highly acclaimed “Arts and
Entertainment Review.” Klein has starred on NBC’s “Sisters”
as “Big Al” Barker, and has hosted “E! Stand-Up
Sit-Down Comedy,” a series seen on E! Entertainment Television
and “New Joke City,” which was seen weekly on The Metro
Channel, taped at New York’s famed Gotham Comedy Club.
Klein is currently writing a book for Simon and Shuster.
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