Joe Franklin dead at 88
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zachhoran1
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Joe Franklin dead at 88
NY Daily News reports that the NYC talk show legend died yesterday at age 88. He had a show on WABC and later WOR in NY for four decades.
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T_Bone0806
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Re: Joe Franklin dead at 88
back in the years when we first had cable tv and before having cable meant you could have up to 6,766 channels, and before even the local stations started broadcasting 24/7, Joe's show was often the only thing on. Many an early morning was spent after coming home from an evening out falling asleep to Franklin's lowkey delivery. Some of those early mornings found me in a somewhat inebriated condition, which made the show even more head-scratching sometimes. It was especially amusing that often, when it was a musical guest he was interviewing (usually a "phenominal entertainer" that no one had ever heard of who was appearing at a NY City lounge somewhere), they would play a recording of said entertainer, and the entire panel would just sit there listening...so we at home would be watching a group of people just sitting there listening to music. Billy Crystal used to do a killer impression of Franklin and his show. Funny even if you didn't know who Franklin was, hysterical if you did.
A different era, to be sure, but the show is looked back at with a certain warped fondness for those who were around for it.
A different era, to be sure, but the show is looked back at with a certain warped fondness for those who were around for it.
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Re: Joe Franklin dead at 88
Funny T-Bone should mention the TV show.
Back in the day, we used to get a broadcast of it on a local UHF channel. A rebroadcast from an NY sister station, I suppose. I was fascinated by it. The people I'd never heard of (and probably never would again) playing some NY cabaret. Made it sound glamorous.
But what I most remember Joe Franklin for is "Classics of the Silent Screen." It's a book he wrote in (I think) the early 1960s, listing what he thought were the top silent movies and stars. And one the first "grown-up" books I bought with my own money. I was about 11 or 12.
My dad and I had been watching silent movies on public television. THFD told me about the movies he saw when he was a kid and I wanted to know more about them. It was before I discovered Kevin Brownlow and other silent scholars. Franklin's book was my first window into the world of silent movies.
Back in the day, we used to get a broadcast of it on a local UHF channel. A rebroadcast from an NY sister station, I suppose. I was fascinated by it. The people I'd never heard of (and probably never would again) playing some NY cabaret. Made it sound glamorous.
But what I most remember Joe Franklin for is "Classics of the Silent Screen." It's a book he wrote in (I think) the early 1960s, listing what he thought were the top silent movies and stars. And one the first "grown-up" books I bought with my own money. I was about 11 or 12.
My dad and I had been watching silent movies on public television. THFD told me about the movies he saw when he was a kid and I wanted to know more about them. It was before I discovered Kevin Brownlow and other silent scholars. Franklin's book was my first window into the world of silent movies.