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rollerdoos

Lunch with Leo

Apr 13, 2004 23:52

I had lunch with Leo today. He told me his brother died and showed me the obit from the New York Times. It was a nice big obit done by the NYT Obit staff and there was even a quote in it from Leo. Art used to be a TV game show host. His last gig was some incarnation of the Family Feud and he was the man on about eight or nine other highly ( Read more... )

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RE: Officials test tree20862 April 14 2004, 14:36:16 UTC

I've started mine. How about you?

Art's Obit cattongue April 16 2004, 08:09:48 UTC

I read Art's obituary in Entertainment Weekly. He was the announcer for Concentration for a bunch of years. He was also in Mallrats, one of my favorite movies.

Re: Art's Obit rollerdoos April 16 2004, 12:32:21 UTC

Could you save that for me to give to Leo? I did not see Concentration or Mall Rats on the NYT Obit. I saw game shows with completely forgettable names. But Art was always working, Leo says, so probably whoever did the Obit did not know Concentration from the New Maze Quiz! Somehow the fact that Art worked on a bunch of forgettable shows never fell on him. The producers must have looked at his clips and always thought, "This guy is doing great for such a lame concept!"