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Saturday, 9/7: Host John Semper Jr. with George Chakiris
Our one-hour podcast last month featuring multi-talented George Chakiris has been so well-received that we’ve prepared a half-hour version for radio broadcast this week. Enjoy!
The legendary GEORGE CHAKIRIS is a dancer, singer, Academy Award-winning actor, and now, an internationally-acclaimed jewelry designer. He is best known for his appearance in the film version of “West Side Story” as Bernardo, the leader of the Sharks gang, for which he won both a Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1962. (Thanks to YouTube, see him win the Academy Award here.)
Since then, he has starred in a succession of films, including “Diamond Head” with Charlton Heston, and “The Young Girls of Rochefort” with Catherine Deneuve. He has appeared in numerous popular television shows, including “Hawaii Five-O,” “Murder, She Wrote,” and “Dallas,” and has showcased his vocal talents on several albums. In the ’90s, he returned to the stage, starring in “The King and I” and, in Great Britain, as Rochester in “Jane Eyre.”
Most recently he has focused on making jewelry, a former hobby that has blossomed into a new and satisfying creative career. See the beautiful George Chakiris Collection at his website.
Williams’ Book Store, opened in 1909 in the heart of San Pedro, is considered by some to be the oldest continuously operating bookstore in Los Angeles (Vroman’s, which opened in 1894, is in Pasadena). But now it’s another casualty in a business that has been moving increasingly online. Owner Jerry Gusha has spent 42 years among the books and is sad to have to move on after being forced into bankruptcy.
“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 8/27/12:
Forty-five years after he made musical history with David Crosby and Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, 71, continues to create and garner respect not only as a musician, but also as a photographer and digital imaging pioneer. See his work in “This Could Be You: Photographs & Paintings by Graham Nash” at the 
