Again, my apologies for the tardiness to this. At breakfast Sunday morning, my stepdad and I discussed the topic of Sales when it comes to the baby boomers, especially here in Detroit, and what a big deal his show was. He was absolutely adored here amongst the boomers. The idea that kids would go home at noon to watch TV then sprint back to school for the second half of the day sounds preposterous to me, but was so true!
I mentioned to him that I really am surprised that, given the fact he worked in NY and LA, there wasn't more made of his death, especially here in Detroit. He made a great connection point: sometimes, if you aren't in this narrow sweet spot when it comes to a celebrity death, it looks totally out of place. For him, it was John Hughes death earlier in the year, where he was stunned at the difference in reaction between people who were teens in his prime versus others. And I guess I'm in the camp that really expected something more to be made of this than was, despite being teenaged prenatal at the time. There's one more thing that just pissed me off to no end. Sales died on Thursday afternoon: plenty of time to pull together something on WXYZ, the original home of both his shows (he did a show at 11 p.m. that went against the local news and focused on jazz music to a delightfully insane level that could never happen now). Air it Saturday night at 7:30 as a local time killer. Hell, air the damn thing at noon Monday and cut the "12 minutes of news padded to an hour" "newscast" down to an hour. Never happened. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Karla Robinson, to Terry Knab: >> This could not be more appropriate: >> >> http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2009_10_23.html#017933 > > I must have seen the Archie Comics' tribute mentioned by Barry > Mitchell back in the day... nothing else could explain why I was > Googling the orangey-haired guy the other day... > > > > -- > BOB > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
