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YOU WILL SEE TOM MICHAELS IN THIS FRED MEYER AD

 

MONTGOMERY WARD -PORTLAND- AD FROM 1925

THE ELVIS SUITE AT THE LAS VEGAS HILTON

 

COLIN COWHERD MADE HIS MARK ON THE FAN AND KGW TV SPORTS

COLIN COWHERD GETS A MAJOR DEAL WITH CBS TO PRODUCE A SPORTS COMEDY

CBS brass had sports on their minds today, with pilot orders to two sports-themed multicamera comedies - an untitled sitcom inspired by ESPN personality Colin Cowherd’s outspoken sports talk show, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, and Home Game, a family show about a retired NFL player inspired by former NFL star Mark Schlereth and his family and  executive produced by Mark Wahlberg. 

The untitled sports radio show was written by comedy veterans Bill Martin and Mike Schiff (Grounded for Life) who are executive producing, with Cowherd serving as producer. Also executive producing are Eric and Kim Tannenbaum, whose company co-produces the project with CBS TV Studios. This marks Eric and Kim Tannenbaum's first pilot order since they relaunched their Tannenbaum Co. banner last summer and set up shop at CBS TV Studios. They were previously partnered with Mitch Hurwitz at Sony Pictures TV for 3.5 years.

 

THE BEAUTIFUL "DOROTHY MALONE" IS 86 YEARS OLD TODAY

Dorothy lit up the silver & TV screens with her magnificent beauty and style. Her last role was in Basic Instinct (1992) with Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. She quietly lives in Texas and will not be photographed.

 

  

DAVID FRYE DIES AT 77 ~ A GREAT IMPRESSIONIST

 

David Frye, whose impressions of Presidents Richard Nixonand Lyndon Johnson and other prominent political figures vaulted him to popularity in the 1960s and '70s, has died. He was 77.

Frye died Monday of cardiopulmonary arrest at his Las Vegashome, Clark County Coroner Mike Murphy said Saturday.

He had a wide-ranging cast of characters, but he specialized in impressions of the era's political figures such as Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace and Nelson Rockefeller. "Frye bobs and weaves among the political heavyweights armed with perfect pitch and deadly accuracy," Time magazine wrote in 1970.

 

KATU EYEWITNESS NEWS

Thanks to Joel Miller for this rare photo.

from left- Dick Bogle, Jim Bosley, Roger Twibell, Gary Bentley

Dick & Jim have passed away, Roger is on CBS sports and nobody knows what happened to Gary Bentley who was an excellent anchor.

UP-DATE: Gary Bentley

 "Bentley went back to Fresno and took a job as news director for the ABC station, KJEO-TV. He had worked there prior to KATU. While there he came up with the idea for a hot new trend...renting VCR movies. So he and a friend opened a video rental store, Home Channel Movies. It was a quick success and he quit KJEO and devoted his full time to the video store. He in total had three stores. Bentley sold off his video stores and again with another partner formed a video production service still using the name Home Channel Movies. While running this venture, he felt a little under the weather and checked into a local emergency room and there had a fatal heart attack. He was 58."

GORDON SCOTT MIXES IT UP WITH GROUCHO & THEN THE TRAILER!

 

KPTV WOULD AIR TARZAN ON SUNDAY MORNINGS ALONG WITH BOB HOPE & BING CROSBY ROAD MOVIES.

LIVE TELEVISION IN THE 1950'S

 

CHARLIE SHEEN IN THE SUPER FAST LANE

Sources involved in the bender tell us ... Sheen broke out his checkbook during a conversation with a porn star Wednesday in which he asked her to join the "porn family" he wants to create.

We're told Sheen -- in a showing of good faith  -- wrote a $30,000 check made out to "cash" and told the porn star to take it to the bank ... and the money was hers. 

Obviously, the porn star darted for her car -- and when she got to the bank, the teller called Charlie AND one of Sheen's business associates to verify the transaction. Luckily for the porn star, it cleared. 

As TMZ previously reported, Charlie was throwing money around like crazy during the binge -- offering to spend $1,000,000 to rent out a neighbors mansion for four months ... and ordering in a briefcase full of cocaine.