Word: toni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Virgil and Toni Sickmann of Krakow, Mo., the parents of Hostage Rodney Sickmann, give fewer interviews since KMOX-TV, the CBS affiliate in St. Louis, had a telephone installed near the couple's driveway without asking their permission. Says Mrs. Sickmann: "We think they owe us an apology...
What this world doesn't need is a Dr. Toni. I cannot appreciate her glib solutions based on today's loose morals...
...condescending tone of your article "Dial Dr. Toni for Therapy" [May 26] did your readers a disservice. They may have been entertained, but you failed to inform them that Dr. Grant's program is one of the most significant in the history of broadcasting...
...Psychologist Grant, this is another easy start for the Dr. Toni Grant Program, her daily talk show at KABC, Los Angeles. Over the next four hours, she will give on-the-spot advice to a stream of troubled callers-child abusers, rapists, baffled homosexuals, wife beaters and "pre-orgasmic" women. "It's a soap opera that educates," says Grant, 38, who studied at Vassar and Harvard and got a Ph.D. from Syracuse. It is also a vast financial success that has made Grant a well-paid star ("a median five-figure" salary) and draws an audience...
...Jose has taken on Psychologist Thomas Tutko, while San Francisco's KSFO signed Psychologist Bonnie Ring. Bay Area Rival KGO hopes to top that by finding a male and a female psychologist to do a show together. Says a KGO spokeswoman: "Everyone in the industry saw what Toni Grant did to the ratings, and now everybody wants to copy her. She grows on you." Grant's own station has hired U.C.L.A. Psychologist Manuel Smith, who wrote the 1975 bestseller When I Say No, I Feel Guilty, to hold forth on weekends at a part-time salary...