BY TEQUILA MINSKY | Happy 101st birthday, Professor Irwin Corey!
The evening was sweltering. It was no matter for the friends and family of the “Professor,” a.k.a. “The World’s Foremost Authority.”
There was much to celebrate at his son Richard’s Chelsea home on the night of Wed., July 29.
Irwin Corey is a comic, actor and activist with a long and lively life history. Last year, as he neared his centenary, The Villager ran a feature article on him (“Closing in on 100, Professor Corey still cracking wise”).
Attending the festivities last month were a Holocaust survivor, a palm reader and a judge. (Is that the setup for a joke?)
Comedians, actors, performers of all ilk and friends from the entertainment world mingled. There were plenty of MNN — cable public access — producers on site.
Comic and past mayoral candidate Randy Credico and Jim Drougas, the owner of Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books on Carmine St., schmoozed around.
Corey’s grandson Amedeo posed for a three-generation photo with his dad and granddad. A relative from the clan of the late Village Gate impresario Art D’Lugoff tickled the ivories, playing Gershwin, while the crowd partied on.
There were two big and tasty birthday cakes.
