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Guru: My Days with Del Close.


Guru: My Days with Del Close

Jeff Griggs

Ivan R. Dee

1332 N. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60622

1566636140 $24.95 1-800-462-6420

If the name Del Close sounds familiar, it should be: he was a legend of improvisational theater, discovered many comedy giants from Bill Murray
For other people named William Murray, see William Murray.


William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor.
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, and he built a reputation as one of the zaniest theater gurus ever: author Jeff Griggs was his student in Chicago when he was asked to help his mentor on weekly errands. GURU tells of the friendship that evolved, examining Close's genius and eccentricity eccentricity, in astronomy: see orbit.
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weird family, presented in grotesque domesticity. [TV: Terrace, I, 29]

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 in a biography which ranges form his Kansas childhood to his notorious adult years. A whimsical whim·si·cal  
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1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary.

2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality.
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