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Lou Goldstein, entertainer, Simon Says impresario; 90

By Joseph Berger

 |  New York Times  

  April 17, 2012

Lou Goldstein was the consummate tummler, one of a zany species of entertainer who kept them laughing, or tried to, long ago in the borscht belt hotels of the Catskills. A tummler - the job title, pronounced TOOM-ler, comes from a Yiddish word for someone who stirs up tumult or excitement - was a jack-of-all-trades social director who was supposed to amuse the hotel guests with jokes, songs, and shtick that might be better described as slapshtick, as they sat by the pool, emerged from lunch, or headed for bingo.

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