Rick Newman, Whose Comedy Club Made Careers, Dies at 81
Rick Newman, who opened Catch a Rising Star on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in 1972 and built it into a trendy club where Billy Crystal, Robin Williams, Freddie Prinze, Jay Leno and countless other comedians did some of their earliest work and sometimes returned to refine material, died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81.
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
