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Columnist and Red Carpet Fixture Army Archerd Has Died at Age 87-- Interview Online

 Wed, 09/09/2009 Daily Variety 's Army Archerd wa seen in print and on television as part of the Hollywood scene for over 50 years. Below is Archerd's entire 5-part Archive interview. Interview Description: Army Archerd described his early years in New York and his initial desire to be an actor. After his service in World War II, he got a job in the Parmount mail room, which led to a job for Associated Press. He left there to become a “legman” for Harrison Carroll. In 1953, he joined the staff of Daily Variety...

Archive Interviewee Jerry Lewis Discusses the MDA Telethon

 Fri, 09/04/2009 The 44th annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association will be broadcast live from the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Las Vegas, beginning at 9 p.m. ET Sunday, September 6th. For the first time, social media followers of MDA’s Twitter, Facebook and YouTube sites will be treated to a behind-the-scenes look at the show during the broadcast. “I’ll never wave the white flag in the fight against muscular dystrophy and other muscle-wasting diseases,”...

Former TV Academy President Dick Berg Has Died at Age 87-- Interview Online Soon

 Thu, 09/03/2009 Dick Berg served as the president of the Television Academy's Hollywood Chapter in the mid-60s; he distinguished himself in the industry as a writer and producer starting in the Golden Age of Television and as a three-time Emmy nominee for Bob Hope Presents the Chryler Theatre , Wallenberg: A Hero's Story , and Space . Dick Berg's two-hour Archive interview was conducted by his son, biographer A. Scott Berg on December 10, 2008. Interview Description: Dick Berg spoke about his early interest in...

Dominick Dunne Dies at Age 83-- Archive Interview Online Soon

 Wed, 08/26/2009 Known for his journalism in such publications as Vanity Fair , Dunne's early career was spent in "live television" in New York and Los Angeles and later filmed TV and feature films. Dunne' Archive interview was conducted by Allan Neuwirth on May 3, 2006 and will be posted soon. Interview Description: Dominick Dunne talked about his formative years during which he made associations with such notable figures as Gore Vidal and Anais Nin. He described his first job in television as a stage manager...

Legendary Make-up Artist Howard Smit Has Died at age 98-- Archive interview online

 Wed, 08/05/2009 Howard Smit helped found IATSE Local 706 and had a fifty year career in the make-up field, starting in television in the mid-1930s at experimental station W6XAO. He was profiled earlier this year by Byrd Holland in the Make-Up & Hair Stylists Guild's journal The Artisan . Holland also conducted the Archive of American Television interview with Smit in 1997 (photo, right). I will tell you that we all read and heard about this infant television. And those of us who knew what could happen,...