No one does it like Gilbert either, who at age 92 has decided he s not ready to call it quits on the show business career he began pursuing as a teenager.
Last year, when he was reluctant to continue after losing his admired and longtime colleague, others with the show urged Gilbert to consider his role as a comforting touchstone for viewers who also were in mourning for Trebek.
“If you just listen to the way Johnny articulates each name, each word, he has a voice and even more importantly, delivery, unlike anyone else,” said Mike Richards, the show’s executive producer. Without Trebek, “the fact we can still rely on Johnny is obviously very important to us as well.”
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I have long (unashamedly) admitted that, for decades, I would listen to Rush Limbaugh if I was driving somewhere when his show was on. I started listening to Limbaugh in the late 1980s, not long after he first came on the air. I ve always thought that it was important to listen to other points of view, and he certainly had those.
He eventually morphed into a caricature of himself, serving as a blowhard template for those who came after him, the Sean Hannitys of the world, each more shrill and less talented than Limbaugh. He was a broadcasting giant, a Father Coughlin for the modern age. I listened up until the very end of his life.
benztown Behind the Mic: John Hunerlach
John Hunerlach is the William Wallace of voiceover . . . “You can take my voice but you will never take my . . . FREEDOM!!!!” Having been held exclusive to an unnamed and wholly awesome satellite radio entity for many, many years, John Hunerlach is finally free to unleash his talent on the outside world . . . and boy, he has talent in spades!
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An investment firm in St. Louis! The morning we launched Howard Stern’s channel on SiriusXM was pretty cool, also Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade working in Don Pardo’s booth on the SNL set was a thrill.
On this day in Black History.
Feb 22, 1841 Grafton Tyler Brown, lithographer and painter, born
The athlete and boxer Abe Attell , byname the Little Champ was born February 22, 1884, San Francisco, California
– On this day in 1888, legendary painter Horace Pippin was born
Feb 22, 1898
Black postmaster lynched and his wife and three daughters shot and maimed for life in Lake City, S.C.
– On this day in 1911, poet, activist, and social reformer Frances Ellis Watkins Harper died
Robert Smalls died in Beaufort, Texas on February 22, 1915 and is buried there with his family.
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and naval pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to
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