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" - Bernie Zilbergeld
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Mike and Bernie, Bobby Ball, Cilla, Frankie Vaughan, The Chuckle Brothers and Lenny Bread
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As head of Investor’s Overseas Services, Bernie made a fortune and
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Bernie is not a household name now, but he was very well known,
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Bernie owned a castle in France, a huge house in Beverly Hills,
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When Bernie was about three
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Bernie became an
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Bernie was in the investment business for a while, then went to
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So Bernie set up his first mutual fund within the IOS
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Bernie followed this with the Fund of Funds, designed to invest
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But, Bernie figured, why shouldn’t IOS be getting the commissions that the mutual funds
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So Bernie and his colleagues decided to create more of their
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Ehrenfried, the co-owner of the video games business, liked girls as much as Bernie did
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Ehrenfried and Bernie hit it off
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Bernie did not have Hollywood
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Off they’d go, with Bernie paying for the plane and
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We made a deal with Bernie to use part of his Paris digs for an office when we needed it
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Bernie liked to say that his love life represented the “joy of
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Lorraine decided that if Bernie had girlfriends, she was going
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Bernie had hired a private detective to keep tabs on Lorraine
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Bernie stormed out of the kitchen and got Lorraine on the
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with Bernie not to go to the airport and have a confrontation
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Fortunately Bernie had gotten most of the mad out of his system
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Bernie went on being Bernie
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When I could I brought Lisa along, and Bernie
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Bernie was by then
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Bernie liked to make us believe that he had sex on the brain
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Bernie liked nothing better than combining business and
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Moving on to the downfall of IOS, Bernie was called a lot of
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Yet IOS collapsed and Bernie had to share some of the blame,
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Bernie was a good salesman himself and a great motivator of other sales people
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much, because Bernie wanted his huge 2
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Bernie considered them close friends, made them rich, and would have done anything for them, yet they
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Vesco in some ways was everything that Bernie wasn’t
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Bernie continued to have his troubles with government
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The SEC returned the favor by hating Bernie and making
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The Internal Revenue Service and Bernie were not exactly
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Bernie opened it and
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He rounded up some backers and, since he and Bernie were friends, brought Bernie into it
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that time I’d had a lot of experience in condo and timeshare sales in Mexico, so Bernie said, “I know this guy who can help us,” and brought me in as one of a group of experts
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I set up a meeting with the pertinent government officials and Bernie
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I took this photo of Bernie and one of his many girlfriends in 1976 at the
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Meanwhile Bernie decided that he liked
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Bernie liked to say that “It’s hard having a reputation 104
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Bernie had so much trouble with making some of his ventures
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To this day I believe that the government started the rumor that Bernie was involved in the drug trade
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Not so with Bernie
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Bernie claimed to have nothing to do with it, that it belonged to one of his girls, but it was on his premises
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Bernie was sentenced to serve three months at the federal
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whether Bernie observed Jewish dietary laws before he went to
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to Bernie than to try to fight him
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They asked Bernie what time he wanted to leave on the day he was to be released
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, and Bernie said, “six o’clock
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Bernie spent a lot of his last years overseas because of his disputes with the SEC and the IRS
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in the video game business who’d introduced me to Bernie Cornfeld
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Probably he didn’t know Eric Berne or Bernie Cornfeld
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Bernie is expecting to meet you, so be a good chap and put on your party face
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All of a sudden Bernie appeared from a curtained alcove further up the hall
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“Oh gosh, what a bore,” I replied, not too loud, but there was old Bernie again
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There were a couple of British Secret Service guys; easily identified by the bulge of the weapons in their pants; a Polish count, two French hens, Bernie, Smith-Barry, and about thirty-five other folks who came and went at various times
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All of a sudden a door on my left opened and there was Bernie
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Bernie carefully adjusted his mustaches
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“And sooner or later,” Bernie mused
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Bernie was the only one among us with any objectivity!
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Someone told me that Bernie, or, ‘Hercules,’ which is what his real fake name was, was a police officer before the war, a gendarme in the Surete Belgique, or whatever
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Where the hell was Bernie? We could hear them groaning up the road in low gear, fully loaded with fuel and other supplies
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Dawley was there, Bernie was there, the whole pack
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Bernie brushed in and sat down with a whump, for all our chairs were hardwood
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It’s pretty black out,” noted Bernie
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Bernie leapt up and went to the door
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“That was brilliant,” said Bernie, shaking my hand
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I could hear Bernie, Dawley, Andrew, and some of the other men
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“Well, would it have helped you to know?” asked Bernie dryly, in his fruity accent
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Bernie and Dawley were probably napping
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you, as will Bernie Wellman and his wife, Stella
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Before the girls could introduce me, Bernie stepped forward
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On the way out to the wagon, Bernie handed me a broad-
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Bernie stood thoughtfully, stroking his chin
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of my eye, I saw Bernie walking out of the barn with a young
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I could sense that Bernie and the others were starting
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for Bernie to hire Cal
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“But Bernie knows about my hideaway up on the
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I thought of what I’d tell Bernie
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she said, “I’ll tell Bernie as soon as he gets in
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People like Hastings, Bernie, Dawley, none of that was my idea
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Bernie explained that it was ‘a hemisphere,’ with a microphone mounted to catch the sound that it ‘collected, reflected and focused
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“Imagine if a council of war was being conducted, and you could listen from a half a mile away,” said Bernie
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I talked to Bernie; asked for the day
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I rode out with Bernie; watched him change irrigation water
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We shot telegrams, teletypes and phone calls back and forth, with me standing in front of the big board at field number one and perhaps Howard-Smythe, or Bernie, or Dawley on the other end, staring at the map on their board
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Then Howard-Smythe and Bernie took turns
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“Give me the stick, Bernie
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“What is amazing, is that it stayed on at all,” noted Bernie
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“Make sure you describe our test, and suggest they try it out on the Nieuport,” added Dawley, as Bernie nodded his approval
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life with his native skills, of Bernie and Stella and, yes, even
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“Better if they shoot them, than us,” is what I told Bernie!
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Old Bernie was awful down, but as he put it, “My hands are tied
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I told Bernie to use that window
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Bernie, Dawley and I went back inside
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Bernie sat there watching me dissect it