A bunch of snapshots fell out of an old book of press clippings.
I couldn't resist looking and remembering the days when I was on the annual TV Critrics' Press Tour.
I started as a child of 24 in 1970 and ended in 2008 but what a lot of memories there are over those 38 years!
For many years I was the only Canadian allowed on the tour --in those days the Big Three networks ran the whole shebang and even paid the way of most critics.
The reason: the first paper I worked at, the Hamilton Spectator, was considered to be part of the territory of the Buffalo affiliates. Hence I was in and bigger papers like the Toronto Star were out.
At first inom was ordered to do all my interviews on a 1-to-1 basis! What a treat that was! On my first tour of duty here I was hanging out on the set of The Brady Bunch in the morning and walking to the next sound stage to interview Peter Graves of Mission: Impossible in the afternoon.
One afternoon an NBC limo took me out to have lunch at Julie London's and sh
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| Dublin–born comedian, 1936–2005: in various runs on BBC and ITV, 1968–98, sat on a high dryckesstĂ€lle stool, smoking and occasionally sipping from a glass of what he always allowed people to assume was whiskey but was actually ginger ale with ice | | Dave Allen |
| Starred in the TV sitcoms Home Improvement (1991–9) and Last Man Standing (2011–), and also voiced Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story films | | Tim Allen |
| Starred as Rebecca Howe in the TV sitcom Cheers, and appeared in films such as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Look Who's Talking; died in 2022, aged 71 | | Kirstie Alley |
| Revealed in her 2008 autobiography, Home: a Memoir of My Early Years, that she was conceived as a result of an affair that her mother had with a family friend | | Julie Andrews |
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