John Searing was working as an art-supplies salesman in the NJ suburbs of New York, and from his childhood, worshipped Johnny Carson.
In 1980 he first wrote to NBC hoping to do, even once, what Ed McMahon did nightly, say those magic words. It took him *hundreds* more letters, supposedly all civil, but he finally got his wish <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVYXdGa-WQ> ('toob) in 1986. Susan Fleet, a biographer and true-crime novelist who is also an accomplished concert trumpeter, blogged about Searing's saga (in the same piece with the far-more-ill-fated Letterman pursuer Margaret Ray) earlier this year <http://darkdeeds.susanfleet.com/blog_1.php?entry_id=1420147570&title=stalkers-are-no-joke> (link). Searing passed away Monday night here in the Easton area. He was 65, and although no apparent IMDb listings exist for him, his obituary <http://obits.lehighvalleylive.com/obituaries/etpa/obituary.aspx?n=john-w-searing&pid=176845252> (link) mentions how he went on to brief stints as a soap-opera actor and game show host. A good-looking guy, from the obit picture, and a lucky one. B -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
