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  Mike Douglas (I)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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  Mike Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mike Douglas poses at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, in this December 6, 1999 photograph.
Douglas was born in Chicago, Illinois, and began singing as a choirboy.
Guests for The Mike Douglas Show were often treated to a round trip limousine ride between New York City and Philadelphia.
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 The Mike Douglas Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mike Douglas Show was a popular and long-running American daytime television talk show starring singer Mike Douglas.
The Mike Douglas Show started in 1961 in Cleveland as a local show on Westinghouse's KYW-TV (now WKYC-TV), it proved popular and, in August 1963, was syndicated by Westinghouse to all five of its owned-and-operated stations.
The program was initially aired live, but after off-color on-air remarks by Zsa Zsa Gabor in 1965 (she called Morey Amsterdam a "son of a bitch") prompted producers to decide to tape the show ahead of broadcast.
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 Cleveland Seniors | Cleveland| Mike Douglas
Mike Douglas, an avid golfer himself, was the first to recognize the talent of Tiger Woods.
Mike has a lot to be proud of, but his proudest moment was when he was able to buy his parents their first and only house.
Mike remembers when his parents found the house they were interested in he told them to go and make the best deal they could - " but be sure and use your own name "Dowd", don't mention me".
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 Talk Show Host Mike Douglas Dead at 81 - The Deadbolt
Mike Douglas, the man whose genial personality and talent for singing afforded him 21 years as host of his own TV talk show, has died on his 81st birthday.
Mike Douglas, born Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr., briefly served in the Unites States Navy at the end of World War II.
Douglas was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1990.
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 The Mike Douglas Show   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mike's band was the Ellie Frankel Trio, which consisted of a woman jazz pianist, stand-up bass, and drums.
Mike's as engaging as ever as he retells the story of his show- dated at the end but, in these coarsened times, never out of date.
Mike Douglas would blow bubbles if Lawrence Welk was a guest, and would wear a long, fl wig if he had the Beatles on.
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 Mike Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Douglas squirmed and his staff struggled to keep political discourse to a minimum, and Lennon was told he could not perform the song "Gimme Some Truth" because it included an unflattering allusion to President Richard Nixon.
Backstage, though, producers and staff remember it as "a week everyone was very relieved to see end." The Mike Douglas Show was not normally a comfortable place for newfangled 1970s perspectives; its producer was a young Roger Ailes, who went on to craft Fox News as a right-wing TV beacon.
Rosie O'Donnell was a big fan of The Mike Douglas Show, and has said that she admired and tried to emulate his warm and seemingly sincere attempt to make every guest feel truly welcome.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mike Douglas
Michael Douglas is an American actor Michael Douglas is the original name of the actor Michael Keaton who had to change his name to comply with Screen Actors Guild rules permitting only one person to use a specific name.
After serving briefly in the United States Navy near the end of World War II, Douglas became a vocalist in the big band of Kay Kyser, with whom he was featured on two notable hits, "Ole Buttermilk Sky" in 1946 and "The Old Lamplighter" the following year.
After the move to Philadelphia, Douglas also attempted to revive his own singing career, logging his lone Top 40 single as a solo artist, "The Men In My Little Girl's Life," in 1966.
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 Employee Spotlight: Mike Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mike travels 4-5 months a year to visit the sites, teach training courses, and work with various governments.
Mike also uses this opportunity to bring foreign students to train in the U.S. with the hope they use their knowledge when they return to their native country.
Mike was a geophysics major at UC-San Diego and UC-Berkeley until the last quarter of his senior year when he took a climate course that both intrigued him and answered many of his questions.
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 FREEZE Online | MIKE DOUGLAS
Mike Douglas landed it, killed it, and, in doing so, blew up the sport, transforming the very notion of what might actually be possible to do on snow.
In 1997, when Douglas threw that historical misty flip, he was already 27 years old, an age considered "over the hill" in a sport dominated by the hyper-young and super-unbreakable.
Old man Mike was a spry 24-year-old when his coaches told him he was hitting his sunset years, and that his creaking, aged bones just wouldn't be able keep up with the new blood.
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 kyw.com - Remembering The Legacy Of Mike Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Mike Douglas show was appointment television on Channel 3 weekdays from 1961 to 1982.
The Mike Douglas show came to Philadelphia from Cleveland in 1965 and was broadcast from the studio at CBS 3 until 1978 when it moved to Los Angeles.
Mike's wife says he was hospitalized Thursday after becoming dehydrated on a golf course.
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 NPR - Weekend All Things Considered: Mike Douglas
During its 22 years in syndication, The Mike Douglas Show blazed new territory in the TV talk show genre, and Douglas revisits many of the highlights in his new book, I'll Be Right Back.
Douglas says he's proud of is the way he showcased new talent, including Motown recording artists.
Looking at some old Mike Douglas shows, it's hard not to see the program as a kind of time capsule, containing an even blend of square and hip moments, sometimes within the same episode.
www.npr.org /programs/watc/features/2001/010623.mikedouglas.html   (330 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show started in 1961 in Cleveland as a local show on Westinghouse's KYW-TV, it proved popular and, in 1963, was syndicated to five stations.
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Michael Douglas at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, June 19, 2004 Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) is an Oscar winning American actor and producer.
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 cbs5.com - Mike Douglas, Former TV Talk Show Host, Dies At 81
Douglas did about 6,000 shows, most 90 minutes long, and estimated that at its peak the syndicated show was seen in about 230 cities.
In his memoir, Douglas fondly recalled when Tiger Woods, who as a preschooler was already drawing attention, appeared on the same 1978 show as Bob Hope, an avid golfer.
Douglas was genial most of the time, but confided in his memoir that his composure was sorely tested one week in 1972 when former Beatle John Lennon and wife, Yoko Ono, were his unlikely guest hosts.
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 USATODAY.com - Mike Douglas, former TV show host, dies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Douglas, who passed away Friday morning on his 81st birthday, ruled afternoon TV for 21 years as the singing host of The Mike Douglas Show.
Douglas came across as one of TV's nicest guys, and his efforts to make guests comfortable were usually rewarded.
Chris Gardner, AP Douglas, who drew on his affable personality and singing talent during 21 years as a talk show host, died on his 81st birthday.
www.usatoday.com /life/people/2006-08-11-douglas-obit_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA   (664 words)

  
 I'll Be Right Back : Memories of TV's Greatest Talk Show by Mike Douglas, et al   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Mike Douglas Show, which aired each weekday, became the prototype for all future talk shows that sought to combine spontaneous conversation -- on virtually any subject -- with the best in entertainment.
The list of the show's guests and co-hosts (Mike's method was to find a celebrity "co-host" who would sit with him for several shows and help interview all the other guests, as well as entertain each day) reads like a virtual "Who's Who" of American and international celebrities.
Now, in looking back on those years and the famous and infamous with whom he worked, Mike Douglas delivers a memoir that is filled with terrific stories, each one told with wit, nostalgia, and more than a touch of class.
www.any-book.com /be_right_back.htm   (377 words)

  
 CBC Arts: Talk show legend Mike Douglas dies
Mike Douglas, who drew on his affable personality and singing talent during 21 years as a talk show host, died Friday.
Douglas died at a Palm Beach County hospital on Friday, his 81st birthday, according to his wife Genevieve Douglas.
Douglas had a few hits with Kyser in the 1940s, but as rock 'n' roll songs began to take over the charts, he turned his talents to television as a means to re-energize his career.
www.cbc.ca /story/arts/national/2006/08/11/douglas-mike-obit.html   (1211 words)

  
 Mike Douglas Signs Off - Aug 11, 2006 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Mike Douglas, the genial namesake host of the 1963-1982 talk show that in its own genial way beamed the counterculture right into the American kitchenette, died on his 81st birthday Friday.
Douglas' wife, Genevieve Douglas, told the Associated Press that her husband passed away at a Palm Beach, Florida, hospital, one day after his admission.
Guests on Douglas' long-running show, which debuted on local TV in Cleveland in 1961, and went national two years later, were an eclectic bunch: Muhammad Ali; Liberace; Sly Stone; Judy Garland; Brian Wilson; the 2-year-old Tiger Woods (his TV debut); and the fully costumed, fully demonized KISS version of Gene Simmons.
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 Mike Douglas -- comforting host of afternoon TV
Mike Douglas, the genial television host whose afternoon talk show was a beacon of popular culture in the 1960s and 1970s, died Friday in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. His death came on his birthday, a generation after his irony-free broadcast style began to pass from the screen.
Douglas was not an interrogator like his television contemporary Mike Wallace, nor was he possessed of the cool of his late-night counterpart Johnny Carson.
Toward the end of his long run, Douglas was being paid $2 million a year, a TV salary probably exceeded at the time only by Carson's.
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 Mike Douglas, Former TV Show Host, Dies, Mike Douglas, Former TV Talk Show Host, Dies at 81 in Florida - CBS News
Mike Douglas, former TV talk show host, dies at 81 in Florida
Douglas was among the "early settlers" in daytime talk shows, said Robert Thompson, a professor and director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
In his memoir, Douglas fondly recalled when Tiger Woods, who as a toddler was already drawing attention, appeared on the same 1978 show as Bob Hope, an avid golfer.
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 Mike Douglas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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Mike Little's not quite so daily thoughts, babblings, and random synapse firings!
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 New York Daily News - Movies - Michael Douglas likes support role   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The idyllic spot is a long way from Dawnette Knight, who claimed to have had an affair with Douglas and allegedly harassed his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, with threatening phone calls and letters.
One reason for his mellow mood is that, for once, Douglas, at 58, has no new film to push.
Douglas denies recent rumors that they are trying for another baby.
www.nydailynews.com /entertainment/movies/story/205567p-177436c.html   (455 words)

  
 The Mike Douglas Show TV Show - The Mike Douglas Show Television Show - TV.com
The Mike Douglas Show was first broadcast live in 1961 from the studios of KYW-TV (owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting Company) in CLEVELAND, Ohio as a local program (Mike Douglas's salary was $400 per week).
The Mike Douglas Show was more than entertaining, it was full of sparkle.
Mike Douglas, a great singer, a personable talk host and a truly nice person.
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 Like Mike   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rosie O'Donnell says Douglas was her chief inspiration in creating a talk show that emphasized nice over nasty.
Mike played polo on Walnut Street with Zsa Zsa Gabor, got Ray Charles to ride a motorcycle and convinced penny-pinching Jack Benny to make his grand entrance on a public bus.
Douglas prides himself on how much he studied up for his show.
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 Paul Interview with Mike Douglas PHOBIA
Mike Douglas: He played the streetwise quick-witted undercover cop Dave Starsky in the hit series Starsky and Hutch, and is presently starring in a new movie Phobia.
Douglas : You have been described as being a lot of things, charming.
Douglas : That's a wonderful position to be in, because guys tend to make wrong career moves.
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 kyw.com - Remembering Mike Douglas
Mike Douglas was a television pioneer long before the daytime talk shows of today, there was the Mike Douglas Show.
In April CBS 3’s Ukee Washington met Douglas at his West Palm Beach, Florida home for what would be one of his last interviews.
Mike Douglas died at the age of 81 from complication due to dehydration.
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 Mike Douglas Joins Cut + Run/NY - Editing Hardware, Software, and Plugins For Digital Artists - Editopia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Douglas is known for big comedy commercials including Snickers "Chefs" and Etrade "Monkey" and has garnered such awards as gold and silver Cannes Lions and Clios.
Douglas worked at Crew Cuts as an assistant editor and sites Willis as being his initial inspiration for becoming an editor.
Douglas became a full-fledged editor at Mackenzie Cutler in 1996.
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 MIKE DOUGLAS DIES AP - New York Post Online Edition: News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Douglas became dehydrated on a golf course a few weeks ago and had been treated on and off since.
Douglas' afternoon show aired from 1961 to 1982.
Douglas did about 6,000 shows and estimated that, at its peak, they were seen in 230 cities.
www.nypost.com /news/nationalnews/mike_douglas_dies_nationalnews_.htm   (204 words)

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