[Vision2020] Dick Clark Dead at 82

Ron Force rforce2003 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 18 21:38:38 PDT 2012


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Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


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 From: deb <debismith at moscow.com>
To: Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com>; Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> 
Cc: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Dick Clark Dead at 82
 

 
considering how he looked the past few, betcha he 
will. Dick Clark and Elvis will go on...death will make an exception for 
icons!
Debi R-S
----- Original Message ----- 
>From: Joe  Campbell 
>To: Tom Hansen 
>Cc: Moscow Vision 2020 
>Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:24  PM
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Dick Clark Dead  at 82
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>Will he still do the New Year's Eve special?
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>On Apr 18, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>  wrote:
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>Courtesy of CBS News  at:
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>>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57415954-10391698/dick-clark-dead-at-82/
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>>Dick  Clark dead at 82 
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>>Spokesman  Paul Shefrin said the "American Bandstand" creator had a heart attack  Wednesday morning at Saint John's hospital in Santa Monica, a day after he  was admitted for an outpatient procedure.
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>>Long dubbed "the world's oldest teenager"  because of his boyish appearance, Clark bridged the rebellious new music  scene and traditional show business, and was equally comfortable whether  chatting about music with Sam Cooke or bantering with Ed McMahon about TV  bloopers. He thrived as the founder of Dick Clark Productions, supplying  movies, game and music shows, beauty contests and more to TV. Among his  credits: "The $25,000 Pyramid," "TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes" and the  American Music Awards.
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>>For a time in the  1980s, he had shows on all three networks and was listed among the Forbes  400 of wealthiest Americans. Clark also was part of radio as partner in the  United Stations Radio Networks, which provided programs - including Clark's  - to thousands of stations.
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>>"There's hardly  any segment of the population that doesn't see what I do," Clark told The  Associated Press in a 1985 interview.
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>>"It  can be embarrassing. People come up to me and say, 'I love your show,' and I  have no idea which one they're talking  about."
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>>The original "American Bandstand"  was one of network TV's longest-running series as part of ABC's daytime  lineup from 1957 to 1987. It later aired for a year in syndication and  briefly on the USA Network. Over the years, it introduced stars ranging from  Buddy Holly to Madonna. The show's status as an American cultural  institution was solidified when Clark donated Bandstand's original podium  and backdrop to the Smithsonian  Institution.
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>>Clark joined "Bandstand" in  1956 after Bob Horn, who'd been the host since its 1952 debut, was fired.  Under Clark's guidance, it went from a local Philadelphia show to a national  phenomenon.
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>>"I played records, the kids  danced, and America watched," was how Clark once described the series'  simplicity. In his 1958 hit "Sweet Little Sixteen," Chuck Berry sang that  "they'll be rocking on Bandstand, Philadelphia,  P-A."
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>>As a host, he had the smooth delivery  of a seasoned radio announcer. As a producer, he had an ear for a hit  record. He also knew how to make wary adults welcome this odd new breed of  music in their homes.
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>>Clark endured  accusations that he was in with the squares, with critic Lester Bangs  defining Bandstand as "a leggily acceptable euphemism of the teenage  experience." In a 1985 interview, Clark acknowledged the complaints. "But I  knew at the time that if we didn't make the presentation to the older  generation palatable, it could kill  it."
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>>"So along with Little Richard and  Chuck Berry and the Platters and the Crows and the Jayhawks ... the boys  wore coats and ties and the girls combed their hair and they all looked like  sweet little kids into a high school dance," he  said.
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>>But Clark defended pop artists and  artistic freedom, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame said in an online biography  of the 1993 inductee. He helped give black artists their due by playing  original R&B recordings instead of cover versions by white performers,  and he condemned censorship.
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>>His stroke in  December 2004 forced him to miss his annual appearance on "Dick Clark's New  Year's Rockin' Eve." He returned the following year and, although his speech  at times was difficult to understand, many,  including other stroke  victims,  praised his bravery.
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>>Still  speaking with difficulty, he continued taking part in his New Year's shows,  though in a diminished role. Ryan Seacrest became the main  host.
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>>"I'm just thankful I'm still able to  enjoy this once-a-year treat," he told The Associated Press by e-mail in  December 2008 as another New Year's Eve  approached.
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>>He was honored at the Emmy  Awards in 2006, telling the crowd: "I have accomplished my childhood dream,  to be in show business. Everybody should be so lucky to have their dreams  come true. I've been truly blessed."
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>>He was  born Richard Wagstaff Clark in Mount Vernon, N.Y., in 1929. His father,  Richard Augustus Clark, was a sales manager who worked in  radio.
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>>Clark idolized his athletic older  brother, Bradley, who was killed in World War II. In his 1976 autobiography,  "Rock, Roll & Remember," Clark recalled how radio helped ease his  loneliness and turned him into a fan of Steve Allen, Arthur Godfrey and  other popular hosts.
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>>>From Godfrey, he said,  he learned that "a radio announcer does not talk to `those of you out there  in radio land'; a radio announcer talks to me as an  individual."
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>>Clark began his career in the  mailroom of a Utica, N.Y., radio station in 1945. By age 26, he was a  broadcasting veteran, with nine years' experience on radio and TV stations  in Syracuse and Utica, N.Y., and Philadelphia. He held a bachelor's degree  from Syracuse University. While in Philadelphia, Clark befriended Ed  McMahon, who later credited Clark for introducing him to his future "Tonight  Show" boss, Johnny Carson.
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>>In the 1960s,  "American Bandstand" moved from black-and-white to color, from weekday  broadcasts to once-a-week Saturday shows and from Philadelphia to Los  Angeles. Although its influence started to ebb, it still featured some of  the biggest stars of each decade, whether Janis Joplin, the Jackson 5,  Talking Heads or Prince.
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>>But Clark never  did book two of rock's iconic groups, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.  Elvis Presley also never performed, although Clark managed an on-air  telephone interview while Presley was in the  Army.
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>>When Michael Jackson died in June  2009, Clark recalled working with him since he was a child, adding, "of all  the thousands of entertainers I have worked with, Michael was THE most  outstanding. Many have tried and will try to copy him, but his talent will  never be matched."
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>>Clark kept more than  records spinning with his Dick Clark Productions. Its credits included the  Academy of Country Music and Golden Globe awards; TV movies including the  Emmy-winning "The Woman Who Willed a Miracle" (1984), the "$25,000 Pyramid"  game show and the 1985 film "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins." Clark  himself made a cameo on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and a dramatic  appearance as a witness on the original "Perry Mason." He was an involuntary  part of Michael Moore's Academy Award-winning "Bowling for Columbine," in  which Clark is seen brushing off Moore as the filmmaker confronts him about  working conditions at a restaurant owned by  Clark.
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>>In 1974, at ABC's request, Clark  created the American Music Awards after the network lost the broadcast  rights to the Grammy Awards.
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>>He was also an  author, with "Dick Clark's American Bandstand" and such self-help books as  "Dick Clark's Program for Success in Your Business and Personal Life" and  "Looking Great, Staying Young." His unchanging looks inspired a joke in  "Peggy Sue Gets Married," the 1986 comedy starring Kathleen Turner as an  unhappy wife and mother transported back to 1960. Watching Clark on a  black-and-white TV set, she shakes her head in amazement, "Look at that man,  he never ages."
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>>Clark's clean-cut image  survived a music industry scandal. In 1960, during a congressional  investigation of "payola" or bribery in the record and radio industry, Clark  was called on to testify.
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>>He was cleared of  any suspicions but was required by ABC to divest himself of record-company  interests to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest. The demand cost  him $8 million, Clark once estimated. His holdings included partial  ownership of Swan Records, which later released the first U.S. version of  the Beatles' smash "She Loves You."
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>>In  2004, Clark announced plans for a revamped version of "American Bandstand."  The show, produced with "American Idol" creator Simon Fuller, was to feature  a host other than Clark.
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>>He was diagnosed  with type 2 diabetes in 1994 and served as spokesman for the American  Association of Diabetes Educators.
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>>Clark,  twice divorced, had a son, Richard Augustus II, with first wife Barbara  Mallery and two children, Duane and Cindy, with second wife Loretta Martin.  He married Kari Wigton in 1977.
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>>Dick Clark, host of "American Bandstand" (March 3, 1959)
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>>American Bandstand, "Remember the Sixties"
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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSkigLWYrck
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>>Seeya  round town, Moscow.
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>>Tom  Hansen
>>Moscow, Idaho
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>>"If  not us, who?
>>If not now,  when?"
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>>-  Unknown
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