More About Billy Crystal...
Billy Crystal was born on March
14, 1947 in Long Beach, Long Island, New York. Started his adult
life as a teacher, and did comedy part time.
Billy Crystal is one of the few
stand-up comics to successfully make the huge leap to being
a movie star.
He got his big break when he took
the place of Robert Kline, to entertain at a roast for 'Muhammad
Ali'. Both the audience and Ali himself loved his impressions
of Muhammad Ali and Howard Cossell.
Billy Crystal became well known
from his role of the "acerbic gay stepson" on the TV Series,
SOAP. (1977 - 81)