CAPONE DIES AGAIN The Hollywood actor who portrays Alphonse Capone in the 1975 movie Capone, Ben Gazzara, dies at 81 of pancreatic cancer in NYC on Friday, February 3, 2012. He is born Biagio Anthony Gazzara on August 28, 1930 in The Big Apple. Gazzara along with actors Marlon Brando and Rod Stieger study acting technique with Lee Strasberg at the famed Actors Studio. He has a close association with John Cassavetes and Peter Falk. Ben's film roles include Cassavetes' Husbands (1970), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Opening Night (1977). Gazzara co-stars with Cassavetes' wife Gena Rowlands in the 2002 HBO telepic Hysterical Blindness which earns him an Emmy. Ben directs two mid-1970s installments of Falk's long-running TV drama Columbo. In 1955, he stars in Broadway's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Hatful of Rain. From 1965-68, he stars in the NBC drama Run for Your Life as a lawyer with cancer who travels the world. Gazzara's other film roles include Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Saint Jack (1979), Inchon (1981), Road House (1989), The Big Lebowski (1998) and Summer of Sam (1999). Ben Gazzara's survivors include his wife of 29 years, Elke Stuckmann Krivat; daughters Elizabeth and Danja plus a brother.

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HALL & OATES BRING THE RAFTERS DOWN Daryl Hall & John Oates along with Average White Band's Klyde Jones (Bass), Brian Dunne (Drums) Charlie DeChant (Saxophone, keyboards) & Eliot Lewis (keyboards) plus Madonna's Paul Pesco (Lead Guitar) & David Bowie's Everett Bradley (percussion) play to The Plenary Hall audience standing on their feet and charging to the front in Melbourne, Australia on February 2, 2012. Icehouse is mighty difficult to follow on Aussi soil but Hall & Oates rise to the occasion and match the group hit for hit. This is Hall & Oates first Outback tour since 1991. From 1974-84 the duo has 15 Top 10 hits with 6 of them with over a half million in sales. In the late 1980s Hall & Oates tops The Everly Brothers as the #1 charting Rock duo.

EMINEM SUED BY HOMELESS GUY A homeless New Yorker files a lawsuit against Eminem for $9M after he claims that the rapper steals his idea for the Born of Fire Chrysler commercial that appears in the 2011 Superbowl. Stephen Lee Pieck of Westchester, NY files the lawsuit on January 12, 2012 in the U.S. District  Court of New York. His handwritten claim lists his address as homeless. Pieck claims that he has dinner with Christina Aguilera and her then-husband Jordon Bratman at a Legal Sea Foods restaurant when she calls Eminem and hands Pieck the phone where he gives Eminem the idea for Born of Fire. Stephen says: I designed every aspect of the commercial and the commercial was stolen from me. In addition, I did not receive compensation in monetary terms for the work I did.

TRIVIA QUESTION: When does the Lou Grant TV series premier? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•STEVE BERTRAND WGN-720 Chicago, IL news anchor since 1985 receives Communicator of the Year Award from William and Mary Diederich College of Communication at Marquette. He is a 1985 Marquette graduate with degrees in Journalism and Political Science. •RUSS MITCHELL 20 years at CBS News vacates to the shores of Lake Erie as new 6 and 11 PM weeknight evening anchor/managing editor on Gannett WKYC TV NBC CH3 Cleveland, OH. •PEAK BROADCASTING 11 radio stations in Fresno, CA and Boise, ID enter voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1959 EDWARD R. MURROW interviews Fidel Castro on February 6th. •1962 RICHIE MCDONALD lead singer of Lonestar born on February 6th in Lubbock, TX. •1976 VINCE GUARALDI Jazz pianist dies at 43 on February 6th. •1980 GEORGE JONES records He Stopped Loving Her Today on February 6th at Columbia Recording Studio in Nashville, TN. He bets producer Billy Sherrill the record never is #1. Jones' 1st #1 single in 6 years is greatest Country song of all time. •1994 NFL PRO BOWL: NFC beats AFC 17-3 on February 6th. •2001 DIAMOND RIO's album One More Day releases on Arista records on February 6th.

EMAILS YES WE HAVE EMAIL

TOM ELLIS (Boston-East Sandwich-Newton, MA) Subject: rain. Hi, Jim, So maybe Texas will recover somewhat from the terrible drought with all the rain you're getting. As I  remember my first 38 years there it's either feast or famine...flash flood or extended dry spell. For my first 7 years of life there was the Dust Bowl, combined with the Great Depression. Even in the Big Thicket, which gets moisture coming up from the Gulf, things were pretty desperate...wells went dry, creeks and rivers dried up as did all the stock ponds. It was the worst hard time. Tom

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BOB FORD (Houston-Galveston, TX) Hi Jim...I couldn't help but catch Bobby Langham's name in your current issue. I got my first letter from Bobby not long after my first night on the air at KXYZ in August of 1975. I honestly thought, for the longest time...that it was Johnny Goyen (also at KXYZ at the time) playing a joke on me. Johnny had previously pulled a good one on Max Wolfe, who was doing overnights at the time. The gag went on for over a year. The gist of it was letters and postcards and many phone calls every night from this character that Johnny had made up...."Bill". I would be sitting in the studio with Max...and there would be Bill on the phone...bugging the living daylights out him. Many calls every night. What really rattled Max, was the fact that Bill knew so much about Max's personal life; his wife's name...where he lived...etc. Then...one night at a Christmas gathering at Johnny's house...he was playing some old tapes...and lo and behold, he ran one with a spot that he had done years earlier...with the voice of Bill. Johnny told me he couldn't stop the tape quick enough...and he and Max met eyes immediately. Max almost jumped over the table trying to grab him. We had many laughs about that one. I still laugh about that to this day. Thanks much, Bob; Bob Ford Productions, Inc. (www.bobfordproductions.com)

KPCN-730 in Dallas, TX in summer 1967 is where during my noon-3pm DJ show a woman who calls almost every day seems to know very personal information about my family. With each call she eases in more personal family information that only a close relative knows. This mystery woman lures me into meeting her in person. We meet and she takes me to the Wynnewood apartments in Oak Cliff where someone else wants to meet me. When the front door opens, what a tremendous surprise! There stands a very cute blond-headed female who is a far distant cousin of mine. So, that is where this mystery listener learns all about my family.

LYNN WOOLLEY (Waco-Killeen-Temple, TX) Subject: I just posted this KOMEN update. CAVE FOR THE CURE: I saw all 3 major network reports on the Komen Cave. NBC: Lisa Myers had a package in which she featured several pro-aborts on camera and NO pro-life people. She had one short pro-life quote. This was the worst of the 3 major nets. ABC: No packaged piece but Dianne Sawyer was giddy about "people power." It was short and embarrassing if the network cares anything about journalistic integrity. CBS: A different story. Scott Pelly, who earned his chops at WFAA-TV in Dallas is perhaps the last of a dying breed. He goes after a big story, gets the facts -- and reports. He handed the story to Nancy Cordes who presented a much more balanced report with on-camera reaction from both pro-abort and pro-life. NBC and ABC were despicably biased. Pelly's CBS Evening News is a serious broadcast. (www.BeLogical.com)

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HENRY ROBERTSON (Austin, TX) Subject: Rubye Bru. Jim- Rubye Bru was my mother. What issue did you mention her? She passed away in January 2005. Please let me know. Thanks!! Henry Robertson, Account Executive, Austin District, CORT A Berkshire Hathaway Company

RUBY BRU is mentioned in an email in JRRR issue #753 dated December 18, 2009 [Friday].

TONY WILLIAMS (Dallas-Richardson, TX) Jim, Regarding Gabe (Kaplan), I just thought it was sort of interesting. I also think he did a sports talk show in LA for a time. Just fed my dog, Scooter. She eats like a teenager ... so fast she almost chokes. Part lab about 60-65 lbs. Thanks for the response about your favorite stations. Austin is really a fun place to live. Gee, the pizza ... my mouth is watering.

TRIVIA ANSWER: On September 20, 1977 CBS TV series Lou Grant premieres and runs through September 13, 1982. The program wins two Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series for 1978-79 and 1979-80 seasons. Lou Grant stars Ed Asner as a newspaper editor. Lou Grant is a spinoff of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. After everyone on the Mary Tyler Moore Show is fired, Lou Grant heads to Los Angeles, CA to become City Editor of the L.A. Tribune. Lou Grant runs 114 episodes from 1977-1982. The series films at the CBS Studio Center, 4024 Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles, CA.

JIM GOUGH [Mr. Texas-actor-voice actor] (Austin-Liberty Hill, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1069) January 30, 2011 [Monday] You had an unparalleled career my man! Keep up the good work. Jim Gough http://jimgough.net/

VINCE LOMBARDI (June 11, 1913 to September 3, 1970) The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Jim Rose and Lacy
Houston, Texas - Laus Deo

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