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Albert Hague

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The Resume

    (October 13, 1920-November 12, 2001)
    Born in Berlin, Germany
    Born Albert Marcuse
    Benjamin Shorofsky on ‘Fame’ (1980 film and 1980s series)
    Composed scores for ‘Plain and Fancy,’ ‘Redhead,’ ‘Café Crown,’ and ‘The Girls Against the Boys’
    Composed ‘Young and Foolish’ and, of course,‘You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch’ (with Dr Seuss)

Why he might be annoying:

    Daddy was a shrink and mama played chess.
    He regards the score to ‘Miss Moffat’ as among his most ‘horrendous’ theater experiences.
    His wife regarded him as ‘this tall skinny almost cross-eyed European guy who had enough energy for ten people.’ (Of course, that was when they first met.)
    He didn’t have his signature beard when he auditioned for the film (‘jazz is the glorification of the inexact,’ he told director Alan Parker).
    Colleagues referred to him as a ‘Jewish Santa who tells really dumb jokes.”

Why he might not be annoying:

    Because the family considered their Jewish heritage a serious problem (as Nazi refugees), they raised him Lutheran — though he would revert.
    Stateside, he would be adopted by an ophthalmologist.
    Though he had absolutely no clear motion picture background, castmates for the series claimed his brutal honesty made him a perfect fit for the role of the sardonic prof.
    The cabaret act he and his wife created bore the succinct but none-too-subtle title of ‘Hague n’ Hague: His Hits and His Mrs. (1976).’
    He remained married for some 45 years, until his wife died of lymphoma at age 73 the year before he did.
    ‘Just because I have a beard doesn’t mean I know everything.’
    And yet, having emigrated there knowing not a syllable of the language, ‘I’m living proof that America works.’

Credit: Cool It All Right?


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 11 Votes: 81.82% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 71 Votes: 47.89% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 36.36% Annoying