It
is not often I've run across a Chinese Kosher meal. Of course there
must be many Jewish people living there and their meals are often
very compatible. Here is a quick to put together unique dish that
will brighten any holiday table that is a bit weary of poultry by
now. We dedicate this to an LGBT hero Raymond Burr. Read a quick
story about him after the recipe.
Here
a cheep cut of beef is prepared with green beans in a lime sauce over
rice. Very easy to throw together and a completely different taste!
Ingredients:
½
tsp finely shredded lime peel
2
tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2
teaspoons sugar
1½
teaspoons cornstarch
1
tablespoon cooking oil
Hot
cooked rice or couscous
Add mushrooms and vegetable mixture. Cook and stir for 1 minute more. Serve over rice. Makes 4 servings.
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a surprise for Master!
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Raymond
Burr
Raymond
Burr was a Canadian-American actor. He stared on stage and on radio
but is primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas
Perry Mason and Ironside. He was prominently involved in multiple
charitable endeavors.
Raymond
was born 1917, in New Westminster, British Columbia. Burr said that
he weighed 12.75 pounds at birth, and was chubby throughout his
childhood. "When you're a little fat boy in public school, or
any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful," he
remembered. His weight was always an issue for him in getting roles.
When
Burr was six, his parents divorced. His mother moved to Vallejo,
California, with him and his younger siblings Geraldine and James.
Burr graduated from Berkeley High School.
In
later years, Burr freely invented stories of a happy childhood. He
developed a passion for growing things and joined the Civilian
Conservation Corps for a year in his teens. He did acting work in his
teen years, making his stage debut at age 12 with a Vancouver stock
company.
Burr
grew up during the Great Depression and hoped to study acting at the
Pasadena Playhouse, but he was unable to afford the tuition. He
briefly attended Long Beach Junior College and taught for a semester
at San Jose Junior College, working nights as a radio actor and
singer.
Burr
moved to New York in 1940 and made his first starring role on the
stage in 1942 when he was an emergency replacement in a Pasadena
Playhouse production of Quiet Wedding.
He became a member of the Pasadena Playhouse and performed in some 30
plays over the years. He returned to Broadway for Patrick Hamilton's
The Duke in Darkness
(1944). His performance as the loyal friend of the imprisoned
protagonist led to a contract with RKO Radio Pictures.
Burr
appeared in more than 50 feature films between 1946 and 1957,
creating an array of villains
that established him as an icon of film noir. Film historian Alain
Silver described Burr's private detective in
Pitfall as "both reprehensible and
pathetic", a characterization also cited by film historian
Richard Schickel as a prototype of film noir, in contrast with the
appealing television characters Burr later created. "He tried to
make you see the psychosis below the surface, even when the parts
weren't huge," said film historian James Ursini. "He was
able to bring such complexity and different levels to those
characters, and create sympathy for his characters even though they
were doing reprehensible things."
His
portrayal of the suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller
Rear Window (1954)
is his best-known film role, although he is also remembered for his
role in the 1954 Godzilla which
he reprised in the 1984 film The Return of
Godzilla.
"I
was just a fat heavy," Burr told journalist James Bawden. "I
split the heavy parts with Bill Conrad. We were both in our twenties
playing much older men. I never got the girl but I once got the
gorilla. I menaced Claudette Colbert, Lizabeth Scott, Paulette
Goddard, Anne Baxter, Barbara Stanwyck. Those girls would take one
look at me and scream and can you blame them? I was drowned, beaten,
stabbed and all for my art. But I knew I was horribly overweight. I
lacked any kind of self esteem."
His
performance in A Place in the Sun
(1951), made an impression on Gail Patrick and her husband Cornwell
Jackson, who had Burr in mind when they began casting the role of Los
Angeles district attorney Hamilton Burger in the CBS-TV series Perry
Mason.
As
a young man Burr weighed more than 300
lbs., which limited his on-screen roles.
"But in radio this presented no problems, given the magnificent
quality of his voice," reported The Globe and Mail. "He
played romantic leads and menacing villains with equal authority, and
he earned a steady and comfortable income."
Working
steadily in radio since the 1940s, often uncredited, Burr was a
leading player on the West Coast. He had a regular role in Jack
Webb's first radio show, Pat Novak for Hire
(1949), and in Dragnet
(1949–50) he played Joe Friday's boss, Ed Backstrand, chief of
detectives.
In
1956 Burr was the star of CBS Radio's Fort
Laramie, an adult Western drama produced,
written and directed by the creators of Gunsmoke.
In
August 1956, CBS announced that Burr would star in the television
series Perry Mason.
Although the network wanted Burr to continue work on Fort Laramie,
the TV series required an extraordinary commitment and the radio show
ended.
Executive
producer Gail Patrick Jackson told Burr that he was perfect for Perry
Mason but at least 60 pounds overweight. He went on a crash diet over
the following month; he then tested as Perry Mason and was cast in
the role. While Burr's test was running, the writer who created Perry
Mason, Earl Stanley Gardner, reportedly stood up, pointed at the
screen, and said, "That's Perry Mason."
Known
for his loyalty and consciousness of history, Burr went out of his
way to employ his radio colleagues in his television programs. Some
180 radio celebrities
appeared on Perry Mason during the first
season alone.
The
series ran from 1957-66. Burr received three consecutive Emmy Award
nominations and won the award in 1959 and 1961 for his performance as
Perry Mason. The series has been rerun in syndication ever since, and
was released on DVD between 2006 and 2013.
Burr
moved from CBS to Universal Studios, where he played the title role
in the television drama Ironside,
which ran on NBC from 1967 to 1975. In the pilot episode, San
Francisco Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside is wounded by a
sniper during an attempt on his life and, after his recovery, uses a
wheelchair for mobility, in the first crime drama show to star a
police officer with a disability. The show earned Burr six Emmy
nominations—one for the pilot and five for his work in the
series—and two Golden Globe nominations.
In
1985, Burr was approached by producers Dean Hargrove and Fred
Silverman to star in a made-for-TV movie, Perry
Mason Returns. The same week, Burr
recalled, he was asked to reprise the role he played in Godzilla,
King of the Monsters! (1956), in a low-budget film that would be
titled Godzilla 1985.
"When
they asked me to do it a second time, I said, 'Certainly,' and
everybody thought I was out of my mind," Burr told Tom Shales of
The Washington Post. "But it wasn't the large sum of money. It
was the fact that, first of all, I kind of liked 'Godzilla,' and
where do you get the opportunity to play yourself 30 years later? So
I said yes to both of them." Although Burr is best remembered
for his role as Perry Mason, a devoted following continues to
appreciate him as the actor that brought the Godzilla series to
America.
He
agreed to do the Mason movie if Barbara Hale returned to reprise her
role as Della Street. Hale agreed. The rest of the principal cast had
died, but Hale's real-life son William Katt played the role of Paul
Drake, Jr. The movie was so successful that Burr made a total of 26
Perry Mason television films before his death.
Burr
married actress Isabella Ward in 1948. They were married shortly
before Burr began work on the 1948 film noir Pitfall.
They lived in the basement apartment of a large house in Hollywood
that Burr shared with his mother and grandparents. The marriage ended
within months, and Ward returned to her native Delaware. They
divorced in 1952, and neither remarried.
In
1960, Burr met Robert Benevides, an actor
and Korean War veteran, on the set of Perry Mason. Benevides gave up
acting in 1963, and he became a production consultant for 21 of the
Perry Mason TV movies. They owned and operated an orchid business and
then a vineyard in California's Dry Creek Valley. They were domestic
partners until Burr's death in 1993.
Burr bequeathed his entire estate to Benevides, and Benevides renamed
the Dry Creek property Raymond Burr Vineyards and managed it as a
commercial enterprise.
As
a prototypical Hollywood star, Burr had to keep his private life
hidden. His stories of his own life became more fluid in their
verasity. All typical of the day. Later accounts of Burr's life
explain that he hid his homosexuality to protect his career. "That
was a time in Hollywood history when homosexuality was not
countenanced", Associated Press reporter Bob Thomas recalled in
a 2000 episode of Biography. "Ray was not a romantic star by any
means, but he was a very popular figure … If it was revealed at
that time in Hollywood history it would have been very difficult for
him to continue."
Dean
Hargrove, executive producer of the Perry Mason TV films, said in
2006, "I had always assumed that Raymond was gay, because he had
a relationship with Robert Benevides for a very long time. Whether or
not he had relationships with women, I had no idea. Raymond had the
ability to mythologize himself, some of his stories tended to grow
as time went by."
Burr
was a well-known philanthropist. He gave enormous sums of money,
including his salaries from the Perry Mason movies, to charity. He
was also known for sharing his wealth with friends. He sponsored 26
foster children through the Foster Parents' Plan, many with the
greatest medical needs.
Burr
made repeated trips on behalf of the USO. He toured both Korea and
Vietnam during wartime and once spent six months touring Korea,
Japan, and the Philippines. He sometimes organized his own troupe and
toured bases both in the U.S. and overseas, often small installations
that the USO did not serve.
In
1960, Ray Collins, who portrayed Lt. Arthur Tragg on the original
Perry Mason series, and who was by that time often ill and unable to
remember all the lines he was supposed to speak, stated, "There
is nothing but kindness from our star, Ray Burr. Part of his life is
dedicated to us, and that's no bull. If there's anything the matter
with any of us, he comes around before anyone else and does what he
can to help. He's a great star—in the old tradition."
During
the filming of his last Perry Mason movie in the spring of 1993, Burr
fell ill. A Viacom spokesperson told the media that the illness might
be related to a malignant kidney tumor that Burr had removed that
February. It was determined that the cancer had spread to his liver
and was at that point inoperable. Burr threw several "goodbye
parties" before his death on September 12, 1993
Burr
was interred with his parents at Fraser Cemetery, New Westminster,
British Columbia.
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