All About Barry Who?

Barry Manilow still looked fabulous for an almost seventy-two year old geezer. Fifteen more days till he turns seventy-two. Barry is six foot tall. He has light brown shaggy hair that is shoulder length in back. No grey hairs or bald spots yet. His eyes are baby blue He weights one hundred  and sixty pounds. Barry actually doesn't mind being called an old geezer. What really bugged Barry was press loved to make comments about his face. Some of the press thought his face was way to plastic. Boy were they so wrong about that. Barry had a non cancerous melanoma on his face removed back in the nineties. But that's all the plastic surgery Barry had done. He had the melanoma removed because of laying out in the sun years ago to get a tan. Barry gave up laying outside in the sun. Whenever Barry went running and bicycling for exercise he always made sure to put sun screen on. Barry loved to bicycle ride and run for exercise. On the days Barry ran he did five miles. Then on the days he rode his bicycle he rode for two hours. The neat thing was that three blocks from his house was a gym. It was a new gym  that had the usual gym equipment and a pool. It also housed  indoor bicycling and running tracks. In between November and March when it was to cold outside Barry could continue to do his bicycling and running exercising to stay fit. Barry also loved to swim. After high school Barry moved to Greenwich Village neighborhood in Manhattan with his wife Susan (Dexiler) Manilow. Then after their divorce he moved to the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. Later Barry moved back to Manhattan to the Kips Bay neighborhood. He moved to Lincoln Square neighborhood when he bought his condominium across from Central Park. Then for some reason Barry could never remember why he decided to move to Los Angeles. Barry's first house was a rental in Beverly Hills. Ah yes the dancing waters. Then he bought the house in the Bel Air neighborhood which was above UCLA. He sold that house in nineteen ninety-five. Then for some reason he decided to buy a house down in Palm Springs. His first house in Palm Springs called the Kaufman house which he sold a few years later for a bigger house. The bigger house was in the mesa area. The mesa house got sold in two thousand five to Brian Murphy and Gregory Knoffler. There was the beach house in Malibu which he  got rid of it in two thousand ten. Barry realized he spent more time in New York because of  Broadway Theatre than he did in Los Angeles or Palm Springs. Besides everyone out there thought  he was gay which he wasn't. So Barry moved back to New York City in two thousand and five to be closer to Broadway. Barry came back to New York City in the fall of two thousand and four to go out house hunting. Barry was even featured on an episode of HGTV's Selling New York program.  Where they showcased three different real estate companies their agents and their clients.The whole entire episode dealt with Barry looking for a house in Brooklyn and finding one. That's where Barry wanted to live back in Brooklyn. Barry  actually found the perfect townhouse in Brooklyn Heights. The townhouse had five floors total. The garden floor was almost like a one bedroom apartment. It had a living room which Barry used as a family/game room, a kitchen for making snacks,  a bedroom used as storage space with a bathroom and closets. The parlor floor had the  main kitchen, dining room, living room, a half bath and a coat closet. The second floor was the master suite and master bathroom. The third floor had two guest bedrooms, a bathroom and laundry room. The fourth floor had Barry's office, recording studio, kitchenette and half bath. Barry had a central vacuum cleaning system put in his house. That was so he wouldn't have to lug a vacuum cleaner up the stairs. Barry also had a decent sized back yard for his Labrador Retrievers Maggie and Max. After the 6th of September there would be three more moving in. His new wife Carly and her two Beagles Charlie and Schroeder. Barry loved his neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights. He could walk to the dog park, health club, synagogue, grocery store, bus stop and subway station. Barry also loved to bowl. Last year for the first time ever Barry bowled a three hundred game. That's when Barry had all strikes the whole game. A couple of his friends thought he cheated and they checked his bowling ball. But alas they found nothing. Barry also just recently switched management companies. He had been with Boulevard Management out of Los Angeles when he lived on the west coast.  They were the ones who  use to manage his money. Now Metro Management Company from New York City took care of his money. Kirsten Kief decided Stiletto Entertainment should have an office in New York.  So Stiletto East was born. Stiletto East as the east coast office is on the 35th floor of the One Bryant Park building. Stiletto Entertainment still had their main office in Inglewood where the president and CEO Kirsten Kief worked. Vice president Kenneth Gear ran Stiletto's New York office. Barry's manager Marc Hulett and his personal assistant David Taylor made the switch to the  New York office.  Barry was trying to get Vikki Thomas and the Manilow Music Project staff to move their operations to the New York office. As for girlfriends Barry had plenty of them no doubt about it. There was Maxine Horn from junior high, Susan Dexiler high school sweetheart (who he married and divorced), Lorna Luft, Adrienne Anderson, Loraine Mazola, Linda Allen, Abigail Stern, Julie Berkovic , Jillian Marks, Skylar Hertzbach and Carly Simon his fiancée. When Barry was a little kid he had a parakeet named Skipper. His grandma Esther taught it how to speak Yiddish. He didn't get any more pets until he met Linda Allen. Linda took him to a smelly pet store in Brooklyn where there was a littler of Beagle puppies. Barry ended up taking the runt of the litter home. She was a girl puppy that Barry named Bagel. Barry allowed Bagel to have two litters of puppies. One of the puppies Barry gave to Marie Osmond for her eighteenth birthday. A few years later Marie gave Barry one of her Beagle's pups for his birthday. So now Barry had one of Bagel's granddaughters he named Biscuit. Bagel soon passed away. Then years later Biscuit passed away. Barry's veterinarian told him about an animal shelter called the Lang Foundation. Barry went there and found Casey a black Labrador Retriever that he adopted. Then came Pepper another black Labrador retriever and  Salt a yellow Labrador Retriever. After Salt passed away Barry got another black Labrador Retriever named Maggie. Maggie was a great companion for Pepper who had lost her eye sight. When Pepper passed away Barry's friend Lorna Luft found out about this black Labrador Retriever puppy. The puppy was going through training to became a guide dog by the Guide Dogs of the Desert. However the little guy had a health issue that didn't allow him to become a guide dog. He would still make a good house pet. So Lorna told Barry the little guys story. Barry said he'd have to check the little guy out. But before Barry could do that Lorna surprised Barry with the puppy for his Christmas present that year. That's how Max became Maggie's new playmate.