RIP Larry Harmon
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 12:01 am
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RIP Larry Harmon
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Re: RIP Larry Harmon
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:09 am
ha, i just read your yoko ono story sam. that is friggin hilarious!
Re: RIP Larry Harmon
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 9:44 am
RIP Bozo. But in all honesty, he scares me. 
Sam, that was a great read.
Sam, that was a great read.
Re: RIP Larry Harmon
Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2008 10:44 am
Snopes has an interesting Bozo story
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/bozo.asp
Perhaps MORE interesting is what they have to say about Larry Harmon.
Larry Harmon has some credibility issues, however. First of all, although Harmon stated that he's been "asked about the story for years," he apparently didn't start claiming it was true until it had been circulating for nearly three decades. Secondly, although he has repeatedly identified himself as both the creator of Bozo and the first person to portray Bozo on television, he is in fact neither of those things.
(Bozo was created for Capitol Records in 1946 by Alan W. Livingston, and he was first portrayed on television for Los Angeles station KTTV in 1949 by Pinto Colvig. Harmon now claims that he did not assert he was Bozo's creator and that he has been "misquoted and blatantly misrepresented" in numerous newspaper articles.) Most importantly, the details of this incident as recalled by Harmon don't check out: the Boston Bozo show had no "ringmaster," and no one else connected with the show (including the man who portrayed the Boston Bozo from 1958 to 1970, Frank Avruch) remembers anything about it.
Oh yeah, it seems like he was a clown all right...
I would say that he was a shrewd businessman that saw the opportunity to buy the rights to the likes of bozo and Laurel and Hardy, but the more I read about him, the more it seems like he was not a very nice fellow.
ROCK!
Glenn Case
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/bozo.asp
Perhaps MORE interesting is what they have to say about Larry Harmon.
Larry Harmon has some credibility issues, however. First of all, although Harmon stated that he's been "asked about the story for years," he apparently didn't start claiming it was true until it had been circulating for nearly three decades. Secondly, although he has repeatedly identified himself as both the creator of Bozo and the first person to portray Bozo on television, he is in fact neither of those things.
(Bozo was created for Capitol Records in 1946 by Alan W. Livingston, and he was first portrayed on television for Los Angeles station KTTV in 1949 by Pinto Colvig. Harmon now claims that he did not assert he was Bozo's creator and that he has been "misquoted and blatantly misrepresented" in numerous newspaper articles.) Most importantly, the details of this incident as recalled by Harmon don't check out: the Boston Bozo show had no "ringmaster," and no one else connected with the show (including the man who portrayed the Boston Bozo from 1958 to 1970, Frank Avruch) remembers anything about it.
Oh yeah, it seems like he was a clown all right...
I would say that he was a shrewd businessman that saw the opportunity to buy the rights to the likes of bozo and Laurel and Hardy, but the more I read about him, the more it seems like he was not a very nice fellow.
ROCK!
Glenn Case
Re: RIP Larry Harmon
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 4:13 am
Maybe so, but probably not as bad as this also dead Bozo. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080705/ap_ ... obit_helmsGlenn Case wrote:but the more I read about him, the more it seems like he was not a very nice fellow.