Word: lyle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only a few years ago, viewers of very, very late-night TV were treated to a mock talk show more entertaining than most of the real ones. The host of the show was Lyle Waggoner, and its purpose was to tout a purchasable cure for impotence. Here was celebrity hawking at its historic low: an infomercial for a bogus product endorsed by a TV "star" whose glory days (as The Carol Burnett Show cast member who most resembled George Hamilton) came during the Nixon Administration...
...Lyle Waggoners of the world still populate the TV marketplace. But lately they have been joined by a panoply of bigger names, from Angela Lansbury (who appears in an infomercial for children's videotapes) to Kathleen Sullivan, the former CBS This Morning anchor who not only weighs in for the cameras in a series of ads for Weight Watchers but also attends their meetings in a Weight Watchers Super Start program infomercial. Mel Harris joins Victoria Principal to pitch skin-care products; Dionne Warwick offers us psychic phenomena; Ali McGraw hawks more beautifiers, all in program-length commercials. This month...
...Luke's Hair Design in Somers, New York, the main topic of TV conversation these days is not Jessica Fletcher's latest murder mystery or Roseanne Connor's most recent family crisis. It is the fate of Lyle and Erik Menendez, the Beverly Hills, California, brothers awaiting a verdict on charges of murdering their parents. "One way or another, every day it comes up in conversation," says Rosalie Mignano, 29, a nail technician at the salon. "I've really come to care about them as people...
Most damaging was the audiotape of a therapy session the brothers had with Dr. Jerome Oziel on Dec. 11, 1989. On that 61-minute tape, which the defense struggled for three years to suppress, Lyle said they had killed Kitty to put her "out of her misery" over her loveless marriage, making a joint decision that Jose "should be killed" because of "what he's doing to my mother." Hoping to discredit Oziel, defense lawyers offered extensive testimony from / the married therapist's former lover. "The defense proved that Dr. Oziel was a philanderer," Bozanich said. "They did not prove...
...answered, "It's very common for people who have been molested to not come forward with that information. It's a dirty secret. There are powerful feelings of shame, self-blame, humiliation." Similarly, Stuart Hart, a professor of psychology at Indiana University, concluded after 60 hours of interviews with Lyle that the older brother had been "programmed" to keep the scandal quiet...