Interesting Facts
Andrews’ godmother was Kathryn Brown, wife of actor and comedian Joe E. Brown (Show Boat, Some Like It Hot, etc.) While living in Atlanta, Andrews wrote some of his first (unsold) articles on a portable typewriter lent to him by Ralph McGill, the legendary editor of the Atlanta Constitution, to whom a friend of Andrews’ father had introduced him. From 2000 to 2006, Andrews performed several times a year as a guest vocalist with the Texas-based chefs’ band The Barbwires.
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