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17 Facts About Bruce Kimmel

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Bruce Kimmel's other TV appearances include The Young Lawyers; Honeymoon Suite; the TV-movie Beggarman, Thief; The Bob Crane Show; Forget-Me-Not-Lane on PBS; Carl Reiner's Good Heavens; Rob Reiner's The Super; Lucas Tanner; Doctors' Hospital; Marcus Welby, MD; the TV-remake of the film If I Had a Million; Dinah and Her New Best Friends, which was a CBS summer replacement for The Carol Burnett Show and aired for eight weeks in the summer of 1976.

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Bruce Kimmel acted in the films The Apple Dumpling Gang, The First Nudie Musical, Racquet, with Bert Convy, Tanya Roberts, Lynda Day George, Bjorn Borg, and Phil Silvers, First Family and The Creature Wasn't Nice.

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In 2019, a special edition DVD was released, finally allowing audiences to see Bruce Kimmel's original cut of the film in its proper ratio of 1:85:1.

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Bruce Kimmel wrote and directed multiple segments of the HBO comedy series Likely Stories.

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Bruce Kimmel directed an award-winning KABC documentary called Weekday Heroes, and for home video he directed the Hanna-Barbera show, Rappin' and Rhymin'.

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Bruce Kimmel wrote and directed the web series Outside the Box, which, was initially uploaded on YouTube, and later became a Broadway World exclusive series for its second season.

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Bruce Kimmel wrote and directed two original shows designed for streaming and playing online.

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The book was by Doug Haverty, and Bruce Kimmel wrote the music and lyrics.

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From 2010, Bruce Kimmel has produced and hosted a monthly cabaret series, Kritzerland at.

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From 1988 to 1993, Bruce Kimmel co-owned the speciality label, Bay Cities, releasing over 100 albums that include American classical music, cast albums, and soundtracks.

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In 1993, Bruce Kimmel became a full time record producer with his own division at Varese Sarabande, producing many cast albums, Broadway singers, and musical theater concept albums, initially for the Varese Sarabande, and then for Fynsworth Alley, a company he founded.

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Bruce Kimmel has released two albums as a singer, using the pseudonym "Guy Haines" : Haines His Way and New Guy in Town.

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Bruce Kimmel won a Scenie Award for Best Score for A Carol Christmas.

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Bruce Kimmel has written twenty-five books, including a coming-of-age trilogy, Benjamin Kritzer, Kritzerland, and Kritzer Time, mysteries titled Writer's Block and Rewind, and a mystery series Murder at Hollywood High, Murder at the Grove, Murder at the Hollywood Historical Society, Murder at The Masquers, Murder at the School Musical, Murder at the Hollywood Division, and Murder at the Magic Castle.

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Bruce Kimmel wrote a book of short fiction titled How To Write A Dirty Book and Other Stories.

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Bruce Kimmel has published two memoirs, There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You - My Life in the Slow Lane, and Album Produced By.

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Bruce Kimmel writes reviews for IMDb under the screen name Whitesheik.