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Howard Stern "tribute" to Rod
PeterMarshallFan:
I will put my neck on the line and say I thought the tribute was well done. Sometimes less is more, IMO.
chris319:
--- Quote ---Dude, they're announcers. Special to us? Yes. Special to 99.9% of the population? No.
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Did Rod even get a mention on the CBS Evening News? With all the wildfire coverage I wouldn't be surprised if he got squeezed out. David Brinkley and Fred Rogers got packages but they were David Brinkley and Fred Rogers. I know we all loved Rod, and not meaning to belittle Randy's profession, but I would hardly put a game show announcer in the same league as one of television's preeminent journalists and a pioneer in children's television.
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote ---All I'm going to say is..... Rod and Johnny .... 38 Seconds combined! That's less tribute time then it takes to play friggin "Race Game"! How happy are you about that Chris?
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All these years later, I still vividly remember the 1973 Hollywood Squares episode in which Peter Marshall inserted a tribute to Wally Cox at the beginning of the show. It was brief and heartfelt, just as Thursday's acknowledgement of Rod was. I assume something similar -- and just as brief -- was done when Cliff Arquette died. And these were big television stars. The show goes on.
For a Big Picture perspective, Entertainment Weekly noted Rod's passing in this week's Monitor column of news-in-brief, but devoted much more ink and pictures to the "Legacies" of Jack Elam and Fred "Rerun" Barry.
Thanks to the internet, we have things like Randy West's tribute, and of course the thoughts that our own members have shared in the last week. Those tributes are by fans and for fans, and I think that makes them special.
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Nov 1 2003, 07:26 PM\']
For a Big Picture perspective, Entertainment Weekly noted Rod's passing in this week's Monitor column of news-in-brief, but devoted much more ink and pictures to the "Legacies" of Jack Elam and Fred "Rerun" Barry.
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Just how many readers of EW would remember who the heck Jack Elam was. They probably don't watch a lot of classic oaters.
FeudDude:
I thought that the "tribute" did not cross the line of bad taste, and like someone said, it was really a slam on the shortness of Bob's tribute, not on Rod himself. On the funnyness scale, it gets a 7. I did think that the cancer comments were stupid in an unfunny way but Howard generally drags out everything for too long and goes for silly shock value.
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