Hal Linden’s Making You A Promise
Not a lot of people know this, but Hal Linden was a lot more than just TV’s ‘Barney Miller.’ He started his career as Harold Lipschitz, clarinet player and danceband leader. As he reached national fame at a relatively late age, (we has in his mid-forties when the dramedy ‘Barney Miller’ became an unexpected hit), it makes sense that he’d want to use his newfound exposure to show people…