Lawrence Siulagi » Odd http://lawrence.siulagi.com Traditional Design in a Digital World Sat, 21 Aug 2010 15:21:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 News anchor’s life catches up with him http://lawrence.siulagi.com/news-anchors-life-catches-up-with-him/ http://lawrence.siulagi.com/news-anchors-life-catches-up-with-him/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:51:00 +0000 Lawrence Siulagi http://lawrence.siulagi.com/?p=561 Sometimes the best stories arrive by accident as The Oregonian’s television critic and reporter Peter Ames Carlin discovered when Jeff Alan, former news director of Portland’s KOIN-TV, a CBS affiliate, filed a wrongful termination lawsuit and exposed a larger-than-life character with a past. You know, things like

  • Jeff Alan wasn’t his given name
  • His Social Security number wasn’t his
  • He left his wife and daughters in Los Angeles in 1986
  • His ex-wife declared him dead in 1993

Oh, and did I mention he was present at the Ambassador Hotel when Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert Kennedy; had a thriving career in television syndication; reinvented himself as a TV news anchor and executive; wrote two books; taught broadcast journalism at the University of Pittsburgh; and appeared on CNN and MSNBC as a media expert?

Does it sound over-the-top? Sound too good to be true? Sounds like it’s time for a sequel for Catch Me If You Can.

Read the entire series in Carlin’s three-part special.

]]> http://lawrence.siulagi.com/news-anchors-life-catches-up-with-him/feed/ 0 You know the Economy is in trouble when… http://lawrence.siulagi.com/you-know-the-economy-is-in-trouble-when/ http://lawrence.siulagi.com/you-know-the-economy-is-in-trouble-when/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:26:47 +0000 Lawrence Siulagi http://lawrence.siulagi.com/?p=287 …the New York Times online features a story about Trekkie love for Kirk’s captain chair on their home page.

Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a command-chair building machine!

Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a command-chair building machine!

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