Freddie Prinze
May, 1974
A 19-year-old Hunga-Rican ballet dancer from Washington Heights? You gotta be kidding. Nope--Freddie Prinze came from the union of a Hungarian gypsy and a Puerto Rican girl and was raised in what he calls a "suburb of Harlem." He studied ballet and drama at the School of Performing Arts. But his real talent lay elsewhere: "I was best known for telling jokes in the bathroom at lunchtime." That was last June. Now his material's been called the funniest since Lenny Bruce. Waterg...
