Drew Freidman commemorates Kippy Spagenbusch in a new print for sale.
According to Irwin Chusid,
Kippy Spagenbusch was the archetypal showbiz schlemiel. His resumé is the envy of lesser losers: back-stabbing agent, relentless self-promoter, cheap-suit haranguer, failed philanderer, wombat breeder, unapologetic skinflint. His own lawyer once described him as "a man of nugatory intelligence and much unpleasantness." Columnist Walter Winchell deemed Kippy "a nervous ugly man, swollen with petty tyranny." Broadway Moe Weingarten, interviewed about Kippy in 1970, asserted, "This guy's running out of barrels to scrape the bottom of." And Steve Allen wasn't joking when he said, "Kippy's hair is real. It's the head that's fake."