Bobby Short, cabaret performer, and Alicia Gargaro, WOW producer, in Lumberville, Pennsylvania, on Easter Sunday, 1989. Short, who died yesterday at age 80, was visiting at the country home of Richard and Ava Astaire McKenzie, Alicia’s godparents. Yes, Ava is the daughter of Fred. Alicia remembers they dined on cold poached salmon that Sunday and exchanged malachite and rose quartz Easter eggs.