![]() ![]() He’s been fighting an extremely aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma for the past three years, and a few weeks ago received his fifth and final chemotherapy treatment at the City of Hope Cancer Center. Measer is a local father of two young children who’s running out of time. If you want to take advantage of the offer before it expires, or gather more information on bone-marrow donations, go to and under “events” click on the foundation’s blood and marrow drive. ![]() The foundation is paying the $52 fee for an online Test Kit until Monday so more people can register as possible bone-marrow donors. I was going to write earlier this week about Steven Measer and the NASCAR Foundation Blood and Marrow Drive that ends Monday, but the Chatsworth train-crash disaster last weekend dominated the news. “We must have been crazy, trying to walk a tightrope on race back then.” “We had tears running down our faces because we were laughing so hard at the memories, and tears running down our faces from crying because we were digging so deep,” says Dreesen. The guys, who split on bad terms and hadn’t seen each other in years, sat down with former Daily News sports columnist Ron Rapoport to write a book that’s filled with funny, poignant and heartbreaking stories. How Dreesen and Reid went from growing up in vastly different cultural and racial neighborhoods, met and became the first and only interracial comedy team, then hit the big time as solo acts is all in a fascinating, new book out this week called “Tim & Tom – An American Comedy in Black and White.” He’s still on the road more than 200 days a year as a successful stand-up comedian, but some of his most memorable years came as the opening act for Frank Sinatra during the last 14 years the legendary singer performed live. So they split the act up and went their separate ways.Īfter some rocky years, Reid found success on TV as the overnight disc jockey Venus Flytrap on “WKRP in Cincinnati,” and later starred in the TV show “Frank’s Place.” Today, he’s a successful TV producer and director.ĭreesen, a Valley resident, went on to get his big break from Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show” at a time when his career was so dead, he was sleeping in his car.
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