00:00An affair like this
00:04would not be complete without our next guest.
00:07He's famous for his after-dinner speeches.
00:11He's one of the legends of show business
00:13and he certainly needs no introductions still.
00:23But here he is.
00:26A wonderful man.
00:41I come here tonight, ladies and gentlemen.
00:50I'm the third and third and third and third,
00:53to salute our dearly departed friend,
00:56Don Richard.
00:59Words alone cannot convey the grief
01:01that I feel in my heart to this wonderful man
01:03who was taken away from us all too soon
01:11by the hand of our heavenly father.
01:15However,
01:19we can all take solace knowing
01:21that Don has gone and entered that big stage door
01:25in the scarf.
01:28To join the other greats from the house and doors of show business,
01:34such luminaries as George M. Cohen,
01:38Al Jolson and Ricardo Cortez.
01:50Yes, ladies and gentlemen,
01:51Don Hickles shall not pass this way again
01:54and forgot we can all be great.
01:59But let me just for a moment,
02:02the country of those last poignant days in Don Hickles.
02:06Before the final curtain rang down for eternity,
02:15his lovely wife Barbara
02:17came to his deathbed with her new fiancé, George Parker.
02:28Under that crisis of hatred and cruelty was a layer of warmth and love.
02:34And under that layer, ladies and gentlemen,
02:37was another layer of even more hatred and cruelty.
02:43There's much more I can say, but I have to leave.
02:48I'm doing a mile of griffin.
02:51And now it is the request of the family
02:54that we all get into our limousines
02:56and drive out to Don's final resting place,
03:00the forest lawn animal cemetery.
03:09Finally, all I can say, sweetie pie,
03:12I'm going left to think.
03:27That's Mr. Tony Callas, ladies and gentlemen.
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