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...Sales was back on radio, hosting a mid-morning show on New York's WNBC that was improbably sandwiched between Don Imus and Howard Stern. His cheerful comedic style seemed antique compared with the grouchiness of those two audio superstars. But even in the '50s and '60s, parading his encyclopedic memory for shtick, he was a throwback to every baggypants tummeler, every silent-movie clown. And like those masters, he knew that a pie in the face was the visual equivalent of a rim shot. Set up the joke, do the punch line, get a goopy Soupy face. He explained...
...STERN'S FILM PRIVATE PARTS, YOUR CHARACTER KICKS STERN OUT OF A WNBC OFFICE AND CURSES AT HIM. WERE YOU REALLY THAT MEAN TO HIM BACK THEN? Yes. But I don't dislike him and was nice to him at times. I can't think of any specific instances, but back in those days I was doing a lot of cocaine and drinking vodka, so if I was ever nice to him, I don't remember. But I'm sure...
...blossomed so suddenly; TV worked like that in its infancy. In 1951 Phyllis parlayed a research job at Theater Arts magazine into a stint producing a quarter-hour chat-fest, ?Footlights and Klieglights.? The local NBC affiliate WNBT (later WNBC) paired Phyllis? theater show with another 15-min. effort she produced, ?Bringing Up Mother.? For most of the week, Phyllis said, the show offered ?the usual junk presented for housewives,? while on Fridays it addressed serious issues. Four days of Martha Stewart, one day of Ms. magazine...
DIED. JERRY NACHMAN, 57, feisty New York City newsman; of gallbladder cancer; in Hoboken, N.J. He brought his quick wit, tabloid aggressiveness and (formerly) sizable girth to top news jobs at New York's WCBS-TV and WNBC-TV, the New York Post and most recently MSNBC, where he was editor in chief as well as the host of a weeknight talk show...
...appears on WNBC-TV in New York. E-mail: ianmedical@aol.com For more on heart attacks, visit www.americanheart.org