Part 5

WESTSIDER GERALDO RIVERA Broadcaster, author and humanitarian

WESTSIDER NED ROREM Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer

WESTSIDER JULIUS RUDEL Director of the New York City Opera

EASTSIDER DR. LEE SALK America's foremost child psychologist

EASTSIDER FRANCESCO SCAVULLO Photographer of the world's most beautiful women

WESTSIDER ROGER SESSIONS Composer of the future

EASTSIDER DICK SHAWN Veteran comic talks about Love at First Bite

EASTSIDER GEORGE SHEARING Famed jazz pianist returns to New York

WESTSIDER REID SHELTON The big-hearted billionaire of Annie

WESTSIDER BOBBY SHORT Mr. New York to perform in Newport Jazz Festival

WESTSIDER BEVERLY SILLS Opera superstar

GEORGE SINGER 46 years a doorman on the West Side

WESTSIDER GREGG SMITH Founder and conductor of the Gregg Smith Singers

EASTSIDER LIZ SMITH Queen of gossip

EASTSIDERS TOM & DICK SMOTHERS Stars of I Love My Wife on Broadway

WESTSIDER VICTOR TEMKIN Publisher of Berkley and Jove Books

WESTSIDER JOHN TESH Anchorman for WCBS Channel 2 News

WESTSIDER RICHARD THOMAS John-Boy teams up with Henry Fonda in Roots II

EASTSIDER ANDY WARHOL Pop artist and publisher of Interview magazine

EASTSIDER ARNOLD WEISSBERGER Theatrical attorney for superstars

EASTSIDER TOM WICKER Author and columnist for the New York Times

EASTSIDER TOM WOLFE Avant-garde author talks about The Right Stuff

WESTSIDER PINCHAS ZUKERMAN Violinist and conductor

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WESTSIDER CLEVELAND AMORY Author, radio humorist, and president of the Fund for Animals

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It's impossible to mistake the voice if you've heard it once -- the tone of mock annoyance, the twangy, almost whiny drawl that rings musically in the ear. It could easily belong to a cartoon character or a top TV pitchman, but it doesn't. It belongs to Cleveland Amory, an affable and rugged individualist who has been a celebrated writer for more than half of his 61 years. Amory is also a highly regarded lecturer and radio essayist: his one-minute humor spot, Curmudgeon at Large, is heard daily from Maine to California. His latest novel, nearing completion, is due to be published next fall.

TV Guide perhaps brought Amory his widest fame. He was the magazine's star columnist from 1963 to 1976, when he gave it up in order to devote his time to other projects, especially the Fund for Animals, a non-profit humane organization that he founded in 1967. He has served as the group's president since the beginning; now it has 150,000 members across the United States. Amory receives no pay for his involvement with the organization.