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| In the history of that thing called television, I sincerely doubt that there ever was a more influential weatherman than Tex Antoine. Unfortunately, whenever an artist works in a new medium, there will always be controversy. The weatherman's "Second Home" was —the English Grill in Rockefeller Center— where Tex had a favorite alchemist. The alchemist, a/k/a mixologist, combined six special chemical compounds and called it a TEX HEX. When this "bartender" went home at the end of his work day, all I said to him was Hello, Daddy. * Three years after I could no longer say Hello Daddy, Tex Antoine was no longer at NBC. And then, he was no longer on television. I may be wrong but I believe that Tex Antoine was one public apology away from having every meteorologist on TV today call him Godfather. |
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Not clear about dates of events...
ReplyDeleteUnderstandably.
ReplyDeleteThe reason the text is in the "caption box"
is because everything descends from the first words
out of Tex Antoine's cartoon mouth:
I did TV weather in New York in the 1950's.
Also, I did NOT use the word "bartender"
ReplyDeleteto describe my Father.
Somewhere in the middle of the 1950's,
RADIO & BROADCASTING magazine
described "Sam" as a
Mixologist with the precision of a Heidelberg chemist
The framed photograph of that advert
is hopefully on display in the home
of one of the Grandchildren
born after my father
passed away.
Had he known them,
they would have been spoiled
much worse than he spoiled his only son!