Posts Tagged ‘KMOX’
TOWNTALK
April 19th, 2010 | Author: Jerry Berger
Walgreen’s store in Festus has racked up the largest sale of pharmaceuticals among the nation’s 7,000 stores in the chain with a total of $2.5 million a month. . .A Lambert airport mole reports that officials with Delta Airlines paid a visit there last week (thinking about taking over concourse C?). . .Amy and Bill Komen have bowed Chill Frozen Yogurt on Wydown in Clayton. You’ll delight in the $500,000 remake of the shop, that vends – among other flavors – blood orange – not to be missed. . .Sally Tippett Rains, wife of The Globe-Democrat.com’s Rob Rains, has collaborated with the Mo. Hist. Museum and SLU to present a “Gone with the Wind” project featuring a conference and display of memorabilia from the blockusting, 1939 epic movie. The educational celebration of history and the movie will feature a conference Nov. 6-7. Rains knows the movie’s history from a-z, including her meetings with siren Ann Rutherford and interviews with: Greg Giese, who played the infant Bonnie, who now lives in Belleville, Ill.,; Cammie King, who portrayed Bonnie Blue Butler. Rains is also planning a “Gone with the Wind Gala Ball” and a musical poduction, “Fiddle Dee Dee Follies”. . .KMOX radio’s John Carney confirmed that his contract is up on Sept. 1. (Let’s presume the station is more infatuated with the $350,000 the Blues will pay to air its games.) Meanwhile, Carney was spotted with two shiners on Saturday night at his World Trivia Championship at Temple Israel. He explained that the first shiner came from his son; the second from a guest at the event, who accidentally poked him in the other eye. The championship benefited Carney’s Kids Foundation, which has so far raised $300,000 over 5 years. Said the radio entertainer of the amount raised, “It’s not exactly a Bob Costas thing, but I’m much taller than he and I can go on more rides at Six Flags”.
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UNINVITEM
March 4th, 2010 | Author: Jerry Berger
Do not invite St. Louis county spokesman Mac Scott and KMOX news honcho John Butler to the same soiree. Scott and Butler have been exchanging angry calls over the radio station’s use of unnamed sources to assert that federal authorities are investigating contract irregularities in involving current senior employees of county government. Scott denies it, noting that a former employee’s records were subpoenaed in an income tax investigation involving a home in another state. Butler insists he has first hand sources. Somebody is wrong.
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MEMORY LANE
February 26th, 2010 | Author: Jerry Berger
Everywhere I go in this new old place, the ghosts of the past call out to me. Nostalgia, as I’ve mentioned before, is the house disease in our town and it’s a tough habit to kick, even when new businesses rise all around to symbolize the futility and fatuity. Every restored, renamed, repurposed landmark reminds me of its first name and earlier purpose. I walked through the downtown shopping area, mentally ticking off the nostalgic sights. Designer pizza, New Age sushi, curry in a hurry, and korma buffet? Give them credit (where tax) credit is due. In the old days, one could dine at FE Sandwich Shop, Tutenberg’s, the Forum, Pope’s, Happy Hollow, the Orient, Washington Restaurant, Grecian Gardens, The Whip, The Rathskeller in the Lennox Hotel, the Mayfair Room and Cafe Rouge at the Statler Hotel. High-tech bowling, slacker hookah, ubiquitous wi-fi, late-winter gelato, and wall-to-wall flat screens? I recall naughty movies at the Garrick, the World and Towne theaters. There was strip tease at the Grand, where comic Billy “Zoot” Reid held forth and among the headliners: Tootsie Roll, Tinker Belle and Yummy Boobs. Famed stripper Gypsy Rose Lee was once engaged there for a “limited run.” The columnist knew Gypsy, when she later went “straight” and anchored a t.v. talk show in San Francisco and still later, revealed she gave birth out of wedlock to a son, whose dad was movie producer Otto Preminger.
Comes now restaurateur Jim Fiala, who offered this on KMOX Radio about his new venue, “You won’t feel like you’re in St. Louis.” Are we in Bonne Terre, Jimbo? But, the people who were complacent and said, “nothing ever changes in St. Louis,” are gone. They were the rich and powerful. David Wohl, Jacob and John Lashly, Boardman Jones, David Calhoun, Lou Werner, Jim Hickok, Sidney Maestre, Gussie Busch, Sidney Shoenberg, Howard Baer, Joe Pulitzer, Jr., John Cella, William H. Danforth, C.C. Johnson Spink, Russell Dearmont, B.B. Culver, J. Arthur Baer, Buck Persons, Morton D. May, John Olin, J. Wesley McAfee, Ethan Shepley, John Wallace, Claude Bakewell, Ben Edwards, Frank Rand, Ben and Katch Wells, Edwin Clark and Edgar Queeny – to name a few. But, there remains an undertow of the old rich, who proclaim they only want a mention in the press at birth or upon death.
A new breed of rich comes to mind – one of whom is 80 year-old Morris Lefton. Who’s he? Lefton and his wife Marlene enjoy a modest lifestyle, while his firm, the privately-held Metal Exchange, continues to gross in excess of $1 billion a-year. His affinity to aluminum has resulted in processing the metal for the nation of Dubai. With tenacity and ambition, he built the powerhouse and remains proud to talk about his humble beginning here as a shoe salesman at $22.50 a week.
Money is tight these days, folks, but some are still reaping it in.
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SNOBS, SLOBS, DEADBEATS & DRUNKS
January 26th, 2010 | Author: Jerry Berger
Where was I to go in this town on a weekday night? In the long nights of the old days, I used to make the rounds until 2 a.m. (Imitate Walter Winchell – earn big money!) Ah, that’s when I began plugging away through blurry eyes on the newly-installed computer at the old Globe-Democrat. Most of them are gone now – publisher G. Duncan Bauman, editors Paul Tredway and Ed
Presberg – to name a few. Some are still around such as the talented Sue Ann Wood Poor and octogenarian Martin Duggan, whose last stand there was as editor of the editorial page. Duggan, as most of us know, retired and became a television star on KETC, Channel 9′s “Donnybrook.” Before he was to be honored Wednesday night at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, we chatted about his 45-year career at the newspaper and oh, the stories he could tell – and did. Most of all, he said he enjoyed being a news editor, but being editor of the editorial page “was more prestigious.”
“When I was with the feature page, my mentor was (the late columnist) Bob Goddard,” he recalled. “In those days, we had great friends at the Post-Dispatch. We had fun and there was a great deal of rivalry. Every day it was Super Bowl time.” Then, he reminisced about his early stint on “Donnybrook” and the bashing by then Post-Dispatch television critic
Eric Mink. Duggan pointed out, “Mink wrote we’re all an embarrassment to the city of St. Louis and he likened me to (zany appliance pitchman) Steve Mizerany. And, yet, we did win two Emmys.” (I later asked Mink about his critique and he said, “I take it as a compliment that Duggan remembers what I wrote a thousand years ago; I certainly don’t. That said, I love the Mizerany comparison. Didn’t Martin do ‘Donnybrook’ on roller skates a couple of times?”) In his retirement, Duggan won’t be sitting back and listening to Rush Limbaugh on KMOX. “I’m not a fan of his,” said Duggan. Asked if he’ll write his memoirs, Duggan insisted,”Memoirs are pretty boring. But, I might write about snobs, slobs, deadbeats and drunks.”
AND MORE
December 15th, 2009 | Author: Jerry Berger
St. Vincent Home for Children got a $45,000 boost the other night from donors at the Four Seasons Hotel. That’s where hosts Jeanne and Rex Sinquefeld, Rachel and Travis Brown of Pelopidas and Laura Slay of Slay and Associates plied hundreds of guests with a dinner and music by a Motown-sound band (Arvell & Company). Sinquefeld and his brother, Jerry, lived at St. Vincent in the 1950s, after their family fell on hard financial times following the death of their father. Rex said to guests, “This organization has an important job. And, with families struggling in a down economy, our task becomes even more urgent. The children who come through the center need every bit of tender loving care, and every second of recreational, social, emotional therapeutic and spiritual help we can give them.” Donors on hand included: Mayor Francis Slay; County Exec Charlie Dooley; Lt. Gov. Kinder; Vince Mannino of R.G.Construction and his wife, Patti; Charlie Brennan of KMOX; Diana Bourisaw of Midwest Charter Solutions; Mark Carlie of Stone Carlie & Co.; Dan Mehan of the Mo. Chamber of Commerce; Sam Fox of the Harbour Group and his wife, Marilyn; Lauren Herring of IMPACT Group; Bob Duffy of The St. Louis Beacon; Antonio Segovia of Monsanto and Guy McCormack of the University of Missouri-Columbia and his wife, Norma.
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FACES IN THE CROWD
December 6th, 2009 | Author: Jerry Berger
Among the holiday shoppers seen ’round town were Elizabeth and Steve Jankowski, tee-vee reporter-turned director of alum affairs at SIU-E. Congrats to them on heading for their 35th wedding anniversary. Over 35 years, Steve’s reporting was seen and heard over KSDK, Channel 5, KMOV, Channel 4 and KMOX radio. Elizabeth is a fifth-grade teacher at Albert Cassens Elementary School. . . One of the most revered antique galleries around is the Hanon-Ziern operation on Clayton Road. But, alas, Joe Hanon tipped that the Ziern collection is now being fed to the Ladue Galleries, including furniture and paintings. “Dorothy’s antique carpet collection is to be sold during the winter auction at Ivey-Selkirk,” said Joe, who stands vigil over his beloved wife these days. ” . . .it’s now time to get rid of the bulk of the inventory.”
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MR. NITELIFE
November 15th, 2009 | Author: Jerry Berger
Onward to Powell Symphony Hall to catch a few notes from the music of composer John Williams. Atop a staircase, I looked on as BJC neuro-radiologist Dr. Colin Berdeyn fielded a battery of cell phone calls. He said he specializes in brain aneurisms. I could’ve had an aneurism from the thunderous applause and the begging for more after the “Star Wars” selection, that caused conductor David Robertson to announce, “This is the last piece, unless you clap a lot!” And, the beat went on. Another beat went on, as I listened to Johnny Rabbit on KMOX, airing an old Tommy Dorsey piece and then a stop at the Old Original Pancake House. Asked why the pancakes taste so fresh, manager Gordon Manus replied, “All batters are freshly made each day, unlike the other pancake houses that get batter from bags. And, now we’re testing biscuits and gravy.” And if music writer David Mermelstein is correct, St. Louis audiences of classical music will not be hearing any news about the St. Louis Symph music director David Robertson’s imminent departure. Mermelstein, who writes about classical music for the Wall Street Journal, penned a widely republished article last week about maestro Robertson’s abiding love affair with his St. Louis musicians.
Fred Weber, Inc., has closed on the purchase of Richland, Tex.,based Lone Star Aggregates
September 10th, 2009 | Author: Jerry Berger
William and Chris Haughey
EXIT: Stephanie Riven, executive director of the Center of Creative Arts, will retire from that august theater and dance organization on June 30, 2010, she said. “I wanted to do something on a national level and will be working with David Bury & Associates of New York, which represents the Merce Cunningham Legacy Project. I really don’t have to be in New York what with the internet, but I will commute occasionally.” Riven has helmed COCA for 23 years and over that time, she has been credited with raising more than $30 million. Insiders say that the board of directors had asked for her retirement several times.
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Thom and Jane Sehnert
GALA:
“I’m dating Bob Tucker, an attorney with a Jewish firm on Clayton Road,” exclaimed Deb Kersting, Missouri executive director of the March of Dimes. Kersting orchestrated the Signature Chefs Auction and Dinner Wednesday night at the Ritz-Carlton ballroom. Kersting also fielded some questions about criticism of MOD for animal experiments in research funded by MOD. She explained, “PETA was upset because of a rogue researcher on cats. But we go by federal guidelines.” Unfortunately, the MOD has received two out of four stars by the Charity Navigator. Kersting also noted, that “the Catholic church wants us to be pro-life, but our mission is to make every baby happy.”The MOD focuses on serving mothers and prevent premature birth defects and infant mortaliy. Among the faces in the crowd was Annie Harman, who boasted her son “Doc” is an assistant editor on “Glee”, and assistant editor on the movie “Eat, Pray and Love,” produced by Brad Pitt. The evening featured an auction by J. Kim Tucci, a spread of signature dishes by our town’s leading restaurateurs and a rousing toast to its stalwart, Thom Sehnert. At the podium, Sehnert hailed fellow-eatery owner Vince Bommarito and praised his wife, Jane, and son, Liam. “Thom tells everyone he’s Irish, but there’s Scandinavian in him,” joked Joe Buck on tape. Jerry Clinton said, “Why he’s an outstanding guy? He drinks a lot. “His nickname, “Smokey” and it freaks him out,” said Dan Dierdorf. More than 700 guests showed up, bringing to more than $240,000 to benefit MOD. The usual clashing of dishes and silverware raised a question. Do they count silverware? “We don’t count silverware, however some accidentally goes in the garbage and some are taken by guests,” informed server Kristin Dodson.
Drs. Phillip E. Korenblat and Jeffrey P. Tillinghast, both Certified Physician Investigators who head The Clinical Research Center
DEM BONES:
St. Louis City Dems will gather at Carpenters Hall on Saturday afternoon to attempt to select their nominee to fill the 4th Senate District seat from which Jeff Smith recently ejected. Reading the tea leaves, local politicos point out that only Joe Keaveany – a Central West End committeeman who can vote for himself – was spotted working the VIP crowd at the start of Monday’s Labor Day parade. He was accompanied by labor princess Mary Ellen Ponder, now chief lobbyist for St. Louis mayor Francis G. Slay, Jr.…
Members of Gina Galati's New Opera St. Louis troupe, who will present a performance, "Deceptions and Disguise in Venice."
THIS & THATTA: A close reading of the names of the students who passed the most recent iteration of the Missouri Bar exam reveals the name of Michael Owens, the KSDK (Channel 5) reporter. Owens, if memory serves, graduated from Saint Louis University Law School ten years ago … Roger Dierberg has temporarily laid down his golf clubs while he recovers from a triple-bypass under the eagle eye of his ever-lovin’ Barbara … Spotted at Bartolino’s South were Terry Scarfino with wife, Michelle Mantia-Scarfino, heiress to Toni and Dick Mantia, a founder of PRIDE (the labor group, not the parade committee) … The former Mary Thele and her hub Art Lottes are back in Clayton for a visit from their home in Naples, FL … Eleanor Willibrand, with husband Jim, was all smiles at Paul Manno’s. Credit the smile to son, William, the celebrated tooth-puller … Skip Joseph is training to be a divorce mediator – though he and happy spouse Rachelle L’Ecuyer, the town crier of Maplewood, seem unlikely to need one soon. The pair are collecting a menagerie of pets, big and small … Over at Pumpernickel’s, Maury and Nicki Zimring were welcomed to our town from their Palm Springs digs by Geri and Mel Rich … Erstwhile Boatman’s Bank drumbeater Larry Bayliss exchanged “I do’s” with the former Peggy Hudson – ceremony at 9th Street Abbey, followed by a pouring at Greenbriar CC … David Kay — yesteryear chief of 9-0-5 Liquors and current partner in Blue Agave — and partner El Viejito — a classic Mexican tequila company (Patron Silver) — have intro’d “another lousy sunset in paradise” … If the Bonneville International team in town recently recommends the purchase of KMOX (1120 AM), will that mean a strong local signal to broadcast the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? (And did you know that KMOX daytime stalwart Rush Limbaugh once worked for Bonneville?) … Meanwhile, that station’s John Carney has been dubbed “octo-pop” with word that his wife is expecting another boyby in a couple of weeks, bringing the couple’s count to half-an-octave … Post-Dispatch op-ed columnist (and Donnybrook regular) Colleen Carroll Cambell is infanticipaing twins … St.Louis City Disability commish David Newburger is not impressed with the durability of the City’s new ADA-compliant signals. Expect angry letters… Dominic Galati and his daughter, Gina, are teaming up on Sept. 23 to offer a special evening of food and song, titled, “Opera Nights on the Hill.” Guests at Dominic’s on the Hill will enjoy a four-course dinner and be entertained by members of Gina’s New Opera St. Louis troupe, who will present a performance, “Deceptions and Disguise in Venice.” The reservation-only event begins at 7 p.m.
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Maury and Nicki Zimring were welcomed to our town from their Palm Springs digs by Geri and Mel Rich
SPORTS NOTES OF A SORT: The late wrestling promoter Sam Muchnick’s protégé and former announcer for “Wrestling at the Chase” Larry Matysik has scribed his third page-turner, “Drawing Heat the Hard Way: How Wrestling Really Works ” due to hit the stalls this week. There’s a 7 pm book-signing on Oct. 16 at the Sunset Hills Borders store. The tome, says its publicist, reveals comparisons between Muchnick and current WWE boss Vince McMahon …The St. Louis Browns Fan Club (www.thestlbrowns.com) is alive and well, celebrating its 25th anni with a dinner Oct. 8 at the Missouri Athletic Club. “We’re working hard to re-introduce the Knot Hole Gang,”‘ said William Rogers. Players expected to attend are: Roy Sievers; Ned Garver; Ed Mickelson; Bud Thomas, Bill Jennings and J.W. Porter. Mike Veeck, son of legendary Bill Veeck, the last owner of the team, is expected to appear as a special guest … Our Town’s mixed martial arts fighter Tyron Woodly, who was the undercard at the recent Scottrade Center event, has signed a six-bout contract with Showtime …
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LOOKING BACK: It was in the shadow of the Gateway Arch, where a limo passed the Old Cathedral and the late CBS’er Walter Cronkite read the Latin emboldened on the facade of the treasure, winked at me, and asked them, “Hmm, do you know the translation of Sancti Ludovici.” Others in the limo struggled for an answer and had no idea. Nearby, in the bowels of One Memorial Drive, I showed an outdoor billboard campaign to the late Robert Hyland at KMOX. He stood back with hands on hips and sternly asked, “But, Jerry, will the little people understand it?” A few steps away in the old days at the Rock House on the levee there was Rock House Annie, whose claim to fame was emulating Josephine Baker and picking up silver dollars from the bar with her unmentionable body part. There was jazz on a paddlewheeler. Across the river in East St. Louis, one couldn’t miss the prostitutes leaning out windows of the tenements in “the valley,” out-shouting each to pitch their talents at bargain prices, (“Great for convention business,” enthused a manager at the long-gone Jefferson Hotel.) East St. Louis was wide open: gambling joints like Hyde Park, Buster Wortman’s Paddock Lounge (where people swooned over meeting a real-life gangster), Bush’s Steakhouse and Johnny Perkins’ Paladium was where smooth music by big bands was a house specialty. From the old Broadview Hotel, Marty Alpern broadcast interviews with “big names.” Ever onward, across the Eads Bridge to St. Louis. Then, the beautiful morning was ruined, when alongside was a sheriff’s van filled with prisoners on their way to a penitentiary. Further along the Great Divide – the Express Highway (now I-64) – we popped into Forest Park Highlands amusement park for a few dips on the dance floor to the music of Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey or Orin Tucker. A quick stop at Medart’s on Skinker Boulevard for a pick-me-upper and perhaps a few cups of coffee at Town Hall. The St. Louis phone book is now minus some of our town’s true leaders: David Calhoun, Buck Persons, Gussie Busch, Jim Hickok, Harry Harrington, Buster May, Howard Baer, Leif Sverdrup – all urbane and worldly, never giving up their vows to build a bigger and better city—and maybe they did. Nevertheless, they were the people upon whom we rested our hopes and half-aspirations.
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