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TV urban legends which could be false.

gr8oldies said:
We just passed the 40th anniversary of the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Northern Kentucky, in which around 160 people were killed. People claim to have been there who couldn't possibly have been old enough. Did young 20 somethings go see John Davidson in 1978?
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That's like Alan Young and Connie Hines ( yes the couple from Mister Ed ) was invited to the home of Sharon Tate the night the Manson family murders in 1969. Surprised that Sharon didn't invite Ed the horse too.

The Colorado movie theatre massacre for awhile it seemed that everyone famous in Denver was supposed to be there. John Elway from the Broncos, radio talk show hosts Tom Martino and Steve Kelly, Some of the Rockies baseball team. Slacker & Steve from Alice 105.9, infamous lawyer Frank Azar, KMGH weatherman Mike Nelson..etc..etc...
 
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Is this the same BHSC that Gracie Allen has mentioned in the Burns & Allen show? Was the club THAT famous, that she would mention it back in the early 50's?
 
hamster said:
That's like Alan Young and Connie Hines ( yes the couple from Mister Ed ) was invited to the home of Sharon Tate the night the Manson family murders in 1969. Surprised that Sharon didn't invite Ed the horse too.
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I think it was Vincent Bugliosi who said that half of Hollywood had claimed that they were invited to the Tate home that fateful night. The only two celebs I've ever heard/read about in this category were Steve McQueen and John Phillips. McQueen's then-wife said they had a fight, which scuttled those plans, while Phillips wrote in his autobiography that he was too wasted to make it.
 
BD Sullivan said:
I think it was Vincent Bugliosi who said that half of Hollywood had claimed that they were invited to the Tate home that fateful night. The only two celebs I've ever heard/read about in this category were Steve McQueen and John Phillips. McQueen's then-wife said they had a fight, which scuttled those plans, while Phillips wrote in his autobiography that he was too wasted to make it.
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Barbara Perkins Sharon's co-star from Valley of the Dolls was supposed to be there...or maybe not. She gave both answers over the years. Sounds like Dallas 11/22/1963 !! Besides John Kennedy other names were mentioned that they too were in Dallas at the time. Joan Crawford I can see since considering her ties to Pepsi and there was a soda convention in Dallas that day but Dick Clark ?? Chubby Checker ?? Lucille Ball ?? The Beach Boys ?? Even Richard Nixon ?? I have my doubts.
 
We had a very strange, persistent one here in Pittsburgh about a local TV news
anchorwoman who was allegedly a transgendered man.

I actually ran into her in a local grocery store, carrying her newborn baby,
snapped a picture with them, and STILL I could not convince people that it was B.S.
 
Beverly Hills? Not only famous for vaudeville but also gambling (and other vices). Claims were that after the fire old slot machines were found buried under the ruins in the club basement. By the way, didn't FOX 19 Cinti anchor Trish Macke once claim that her mom was a dancer at Beverly Hills? And wasn't there another FOX 19 anchor who was rumored to have been a Victoria Secret model?

Re: urban legends. Or in this case not. Story was the new young Indianapolis TV anchorman who'd moved from radio to TV had a pony tail. He wore his hair combed back. Finally one night he slipped. Turned his head just enough to show that while technically not a pony tail, it was in fact much longer than it appeared on camera and that he did have it swept back and clipped. My mom was devastated seeing that fine young TV newscaster was actually a bit of a "hippie."

Oh, and about Joan Crawford. Sure you're not thinking of Bette Davis? I'd swear I saw Bette claim on an Art Linkletter show that she was going to appear on Batman as a character named Batwoman. Yet I've never found any evidence of that interview.
 
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woofboom said:
Beverly Hills? Not only famous for vaudeville but also gambling (and other vices). Claims were that after the fire old slot machines were found buried under the ruins in the club basement. By the way, didn't FOX 19 Cinti anchor Trish Macke once claim that her mom was a dancer at Beverly Hills? And wasn't there another FOX 19 anchor who was rumored to have been a Victoria Secret model?

Re: urban legends. Or in this case not. Story was the new young Indianapolis TV anchorman who'd moved from radio to TV had a pony tail. He wore his hair combed back. Finally one night he slipped. Turned his head just enough to show that while technically not a pony tail, it was in fact much longer than it appeared on camera and that he did have it swept back and clipped. My mom was devastated seeing that fine young TV newscaster was actually a bit of a "hippie."

Oh, and about Joan Crawford. Sure you're not thinking of Bette Davis? I'd swear I saw Bette claim on an Art Linkletter show that she was going to appear on Batman as a character named Batwoman. Yet I've never found any evidence of that interview.
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Bette Davis was approached about being on Batman, but they supposedly couldn't find a good role for her--though she could have done a window cameo. The Joan Crawford mistake is definitely true because I can remember seeing myself on an trivia arcade machine and wondering what they were talking about, since "The Devil" never appeared as a character on the show.

Nixon was definitely in Dallas on the morning of 11/22/63, since he was serving as counsel for Pepsi.
 
LKellerIII said:
Yes - Nixon shot Kennedy. I saw it with my own eyes. He said, "I am not a crook! Hasta la vista, Johnny boy."
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NIxon? I thought it was a young Dick Cheney on that grassy knoll. He was on his first hunting trip. :D
 
FreddyE1977 said:
We had a very strange, persistent one here in Pittsburgh about a local TV news
anchorwoman who was allegedly a transgendered man.

I actually ran into her in a local grocery store, carrying her newborn baby,
snapped a picture with them, and STILL I could not convince people that it was B.S.
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The transgendered rumor also made its way to Charleston, West Virginia too. Tom McGee who for years worked at WOWK-TV and WCHS was rumored to be not only transgendered but also a wild drunk, wears women's panties under his suit, beats women, very loud & obnoxious, is gay, does drugs, been thrown out of many local businesses, gets nasty with anyone who doesn't know who he is...and so forth. The rumors about Tom McGee were so bad that the state radio talk show "Talk Line" did an entire show about them.
 
In the 80s and 90s, I operated a video store in a suburb of the Bay Area. A lot of San Francisco TV anchors and reporters lived nearby, and were customers of mine. Some of them had "reputations" of one bad sort or another. I found most of them to be nice, regular people, except for one - a longtime meteorologist for KGO-TV, who was rumored to be an a**h*le. I can vouch for the truth of THAT rumor.
 
LKellerIII said:
In the 80s and 90s, I operated a video store in a suburb of the Bay Area. A lot of San Francisco TV anchors and reporters lived nearby, and were customers of mine. Some of them had "reputations" of one bad sort or another. I found most of them to be nice, regular people, except for one - a longtime meteorologist for KGO-TV, who was rumored to be an a**h*le. I can vouch for the truth of THAT rumor.
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I remember Pete Giddings his KGO-TV weather seat went to former Good Morning America Weather presenter Spencer Christian 20 years ago. I remember hearing stuff that Giddings was the Norcal version Paul Moyer/ Ron Burgundy.

Interestingly Spencer Christian was one of the people along with Storm Field at WABC-TV who replaced another Weatherman for being an a-hole weather segment presenter for pretty crazy reasons about child abuse that Roger Grimsby (Another former KGO-TV talent) did about an abuse story that did happen in New York City and at some point in the 1970's Spencer Christian and Storm Field took over the weather spot from the fired WABC weather person.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
The famous one about Raquel Welch appearing as a guest on the Tonight Show and
bringing her cat. Then asking Johnny Carson "Would you like to pet my *****?" to which
Carson replied "Sure, put down the cat."

That has been circulating for 40 years.....never happened!
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That was Zsa Zsa Gabor, not Raquel Welch........Jane Fonda even brought that up on Carson once and he denied it....though the look on his face was it happened....possibly cut by censors and never made it to air but did happen on the show
 
The story I heard about Soupy (other than the "send those green pieces of paper" incident) was that it was in a sketch where he's teaching the alphabet to, I think, White Fang - Soupy holds up a card with an F and the dog says "K"... this is repeated, then Soupy says "Every time I show you F, you see K!"
 
rnigma1 said:
The story I heard about Soupy (other than the "send those green pieces of paper" incident) was that it was in a sketch where he's teaching the alphabet to, I think, White Fang - Soupy holds up a card with an F and the dog says "K"... this is repeated, then Soupy says "Every time I show you F, you see K!"
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Did Soupy himself deny this ?? I know he always denied the "F.......K....firetruck" thing. He also denied the line "my wife makes great pies.....I eat her cherry but she eats my banana".
 
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