Watch Your Cleavage, Check Your Zipper!Guy LeBow, an old radio and TV hand who was there at the very beginning of broadcast television, takes readers on a hilarious romp through the early days of the boob tube. He introduces the side of television you never saw on the screen . . . and today's editors would never let you see. |
Contents
by Ed McMahon | 1 |
Hollywood Meets | 9 |
And Now a Word from | 21 |
LowTech | 63 |
Watch That Zipper Check That Cleavage | 117 |
Its a Helmet Bout Men | 159 |
And Now For Your | 182 |
The Lord Giveth but TV Keepeth | 231 |
We Had to Call Em as We Saw Em | 254 |
Rustlers Hustlers and a | 287 |
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