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November 21, 2017
... inquiring, stimulating, informed, inspiring use of the television medium." Or at least: "the art of interviewing ... Johnson Administrations, various framed reviews, and a few awards. There isn't room on that wall — or possibly three ... LBJ, who "took a liking to me." Bill was going to a small college in north Texas, but quickly transferred to the ...
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December 19, 2017
... flared and a nuclear standoff with Russia ensued, the television writer and producer Gene Roddenberry was focused ... Roddenberry’s greatest achievement, the science fiction television series Star Trek , featuring the brave Captain ... He grew up in Los Angeles, the son of a police officer. In college, he studied law and aeronautical engineering but ...
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November 4, 2017
Steve Allen is television's only living Renaissance man. Comedian, pianist, ... Allen has explored and conquered just about every facet of television entertainment. In the early years, he created one ... at Drake University, another at Arizona State Teachers College, and a stint in the U.S. Army, he worked three years ...
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October 29, 2010
... who played the role of Mr. Baxter on the children’s television series Captain Kangaroo , died October 27, 2010. ... the U.S. Army during World War II, after which he attended college on the G.I. Bill. In the 1950s he continued to work ... James Wall had the distinction of being interviewed by the Television Academy Foundation’s Archive of American ...
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May 12, 2010
... ) and Sofia Vergara ( Modern Family ) will join Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chairman-CEO John Shaffner at 5:30 ... on Thursday, July 8, to announce the 62nd Primetime Emmy® Awards Nominations. Spike Jones, Jr., will produce the Emmy ... in which he plays a lawyer forced to go back to community college after his undergraduate degree is declared invalid. ...
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May 12, 2010
... ) and Sofia Vergara ( Modern Family ) will join Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chairman-CEO John Shaffner at 5:30 ... on Thursday, July 8, to announce the 62nd Primetime Emmy® Awards Nominations. Spike Jones, Jr., will produce the Emmy ... in which he plays a lawyer forced to go back to community college after his undergraduate degree is declared invalid. ...
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April 23, 2012
... Emmy-winning director known for some of the most popular television series of the 1970s and ’80s, died May 15, 2012, ... graduating from high school, without the means to afford college, he found work as a printer. During that time he ... birthday. He also garnered 10 Directors Guild of America awards and won three times, all for All in the Family . ...
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November 27, 2017
... become one — maybe I absorbed this from him. Of course, television hadn't been invented yet, so what I had in mind ... poor that, when the oldest boy decided he wanted to go to college, all his parents could do for him was hitch the mule ... University. And each of the other eight kids also became college graduates, most with advanced degrees. “On this ...
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December 15, 2016
Florence Henderson was not only an important part of television history, she was also an important part of the ... act. I was thrilled. So much better than an autograph to a college kid. At the time, I had never once considered a ... another day. Dr. John Leverance, Senior Vice President, Awards : Some years back I was producing a charitable event ...
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October 30, 2017
... 9, 1954, in a singular event that has since been called television's finest hour. That was the evening on which ... lad, Murrow became a student at Washington State College, where he majored in speech, involved himself in the ... to do the show that I don't want to do." At the 1953 Emmy Awards, Murrow, already America's most decorated journalist, ...