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  Morton Downey, Jr.
His parents were also in show business; his father Morton Downey was a popular singer, and his mother Barbara Bennett[?] was a singer and dancer.
In 1989, Downey was involved in an incident in which he claimed to have been attacked by neo-Nazis who painted a swastika on his face.
Late in life, Downey, who was sometimes known to blow tobacco smoke into people's faces on his show, became an anti-tobacco crusader, as a direct response to his own terminal case of lung cancer.
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 Morton Downey, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His father, Morton Downey, was a popular singer, and his mother, Barbara Bennett Downey, was a singer and dancer.
In 1989, as fascination with Downey's show had begun to wane, he claimed he was attacked in a San Francisco International Airport restroom by neo-Nazis who supposedly painted a swastika on his face and attempted to shave his head.
Downey was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1996; part of his left lung was removed.
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 Spreading the Word
Downey was known for deliberately blowing smoke into the faces of guests who annoyed him when he was host of one of the most popular talk shows on television.
Downey was the son of popular singer Morton Downey and his dancer-wife, Barbara Bennett, and was raised next door to the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass.
Downey also acknowledged that he was proud of many aspects of the original show, crediting it for paving the way for shocking programs by Jerry Springer and others.
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 CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Remembering Morton Downey Jr. - March 13, 2001
MORTON DOWNEY JR.: I became public because my wife and I talked about it, and the one thing that I had -- that I really regretted when you said, "What was your fear," my fear was that I had spawned a generation of kids to think it was cool to smoke a cigarette.
MORTON DOWNEY JR.: You know, one of the most amazing things was is you get a disease that is not necessarily a disease that's a happy disease, and nobody wants to hire you, they are afraid you are going to go.
MORTON DOWNEY JR.: Exactly, I mean, you'd have to be laughing because -- and anyone who wants to watch that thinking that their life is better off because they're watching this happen to someone else, basically think about it.
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 Morton Downey cryonics show
Morton Downey was dressed in a butcher's apron amongst several carcasses in a meat locker telling people about cryonics.
Morton Downey asked a few pointed questions, as he should, but it was only the audience that wanted blood.
(On the Morton Downey show yet!) Since the public perception of cryonics influences our legal and political climate which greatly affects the ability of cryonics organizations to successfully do cryonic suspensions, consciousness raising and educational efforts to reduce the public's ignorance about cryonics and general death-oid orientation will always be valuable.
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 ARTless - Red Socks and Pinkos: The Morton Downey Jr. Interview
This a photo of Morton Downey Jr., he's the guy interviewed.
It was during this tumultuous time that I talked with shock jock Morton Downey Jr.
To this day the episode remains unaired, but I was backstage when it happened and got to talk with Downey afterwards.
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 Morton Downey Jr. Biography
He was surrounded by fame and notoriety thanks to his famous parents Morton Downey Sr., the well know Irish crooner and radio star, and his mother actress Barbara Bennett.
Before Mort became the Loudmouth of TV talk shows he was known as Doc Downey the DJ on KAFY in Bakersfield and later on KDEO in San Diego.
Downey was produced in Southern California during 1994 and allowed him to work with his wife Lori in a flout sketch that would open up each show.
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 Morton Downey Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Downey died Monday of pneumonia in his remaining lung, his doctor said.
Perhaps the biggest embarrassment of Downey's career came when he claimed neo-Nazi skinheads attacked him in a San Francisco airport restroom in 1989, cutting off his hair and painting a swastika on his head.
Downey is survived by his wife, Lori Krebs, and their daughter.
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 Morton Downey Says He'll Sue Howard Stern - Aug 29, 1997 - E! Online News
In fact, Downey's fuming so much that he has quit his gig as a radio talk show host in Cleveland to concentrate on suing Stern.
Stern read a newspaper report that said Downey was spotted smoking at his radio station and ripped into Downey--whose two-pack-a-day habit led to a bout of lung cancer and removal of his right lung last year.
Downey's spokesman, Les Schecter, said Stern launched his attack without realizing that the newspaper later retracted the story.
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 Positive Liberty » Blog Archive » Lester Kinsolving on Morton Downey
The difference between Howard Stern and Downey (the two were often compared to one another) is that Stern had real talent, offered something novel and clever.
Downey was just a rehash, flash in the pan, repackaging of Joe Pyne.
At one point, Downey grabs Kinsolving’s “notes” and Kinsolving chases him around the set and is forcefully removed by security.
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 Morton Downey, Jr Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Downey got involved in name calling and "fisticuffs" with Baird and had him (Baird) thrown off the show.
Downey would go on to television to host "The Morton Downey Jr.
Late in life, Downey, who was sometimes known to blow smoke into people's faces on his show, became an anti-tobacco crusader after contracting lung cancer.
www.cflradio.net /morton_downey_biography.htm   (202 words)

  
 Morton Downey Jr.'s Home Page
In his heyday, Morton Downey Jr., the chain-smoking, combative talk-show host reined the TV talk show airwaves in the late 1980's.
He was known as "Mort the Mouth," and mocked his sometimes bizarre guests, deliberately blowing smoke in their faces calling them "slime" or "scum bucket!" He reveled in shouting matches with members of his studio audience, as well, and often dismissed liberals as "pablum pukers." He commented, "Later I took things too far.
on Dec. 9, 1933, the son of singer Morton Downey and dancer Barbara Bennett grew up in privilege, attended military school and earned a marketing degree and a law degree.
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 One of the Final Unpublished Interviews With Shock TV Pioneer MORTON DOWNEY, JR.
One of the Final Unpublished Interviews With Shock TV Pioneer MORTON DOWNEY, JR.
Back on February 22, 1999 we had the opportunity to speak with Morton Downey, Jr.
We were recording in a garage and I know it says Downey on the damn label, but I can't remember if I got credit for writing or producing it.
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 Morton Downey, Jr. Talk Show Host.
This is part 6 of 6 of an episode of the Morton Downey Jr.
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 Morton Downey Jr.'s Home Page (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Still, Downey was proud of many aspects of "The Morton Downey Jr.
There were times that I did things that were a little sleazy, but I didn't do shows on my neighbor's collie dog having sex with my neighbor's wife." And besides, there still hasn't been another talk show host who was as confrontational as Mort.
And although Mort was sometimes outrageous, he defended his show as giving a forum to working-class Americans who were fed up with what politicians in Washington, D.C., were doing with their tax money.
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 MIT students hacks "Morton Downey Jr. Show"
About a year ago, the Downey show's producers contacted NAMBLA and inquired whether a member of their organization would be willing to appear on the show, Farrell said.
Though he requested to mingle with the other guests on the show, Coon was kept by himself in the room until showtime, and was visited twice by a producer.
Under Downey's personal line of questioning, Coon -- who had originally hoped to be as outrageous as possible on the show -- toned down his performance, worried about the long-term implications of the consent form and in the short-term "a group of policemen arresting [him] right after the show for [his] purported child-molesting activities."
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 I Strip For God - The Offical Website Of Kellie Everts
Kellie Everts is contacted by the Morton Downey Jr.
She was to rehearse every line and every insult Downey and his guests would throw at her.
As soon as Kellie's name was announced by Downey and she stood up, she felt the power of the Holy Spirit enter her.
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 The Horror Blog » Blog Archive » Clip of the Day - Morton Downey, Jr.
When I was a kid I used to watch Morton Downey, Jr.
Like the exploitation peddlers of old, Downey would couch things that were otherwise unavailable on television within a cocoon of outrage and moral indignation.
In other words, if you wanted to see clips from horror movies that you otherwise weren’t allowed to see, the perpetually smoking Downey would showcase them at least once a week in a thick-headed attempt to have them banned.
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 Morton Downey
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 Morton Downey - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Born in Connecticut in 1901, Morton Downey was a popular entertainer during the pre-World War II era.
A light tenor nicknamed "The Irish Nightingale," Downey starred in films and on the cabaret circuit and radio, earning the honor Radio Singer of the Year in 1932.
The father of notorious TV talk-show host Morton Downey, Jr., Downey Sr.
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 Morton Downey, Jr. 2001 Deaths — Infoplease.com
Downey had a long and diverse career before he became an icon of the right wing.
He had been a singer, record producer, disc jockey, and founder of the American Basketball Association.
Pope Paul VI knighted Downey for his humanitarian work in the 1970s.
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 [CTRL] Mort the Mouth": Morton Downey, Jr., dead at 67
> > LOS ANGELES -Before Jerry Springer and Jenny Jones, there was Morton > Downey Jr., a growling and opinionated TV talk show host who shocked > viewers from behind a haze of cigarette smoke.
Just as confrontational, just as tough, just as opinionated, but > everyone else has the right to have their opinion and be heard." > > Still, that didn't stop him from claiming on one episode to have > achieved psychic communication with the spirit of Nicole Brown > Simpson, the murdered ex-wife of O.J. Simpson.
> > Downey also acknowledged that he was proud of many aspects of the > original show, crediting it for paving the way for shocking programs > by Springer and others.
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 Glorious Noise - Morton Downey, Jr. R.I.P.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Morton was present at the studio when another surf song was put together called "Pipeline" he claimed he co-wrote it (sure) and Rick Derringer brought this up on Mortons talkshow one time.Ttue or not I saw them make this claim od course we all know Buddy Ebson played tambourine on The "White Album" too.
"Pipeline" by the Chantays was initially released on the Downey record label, before going on to Dot.
Pressings on Downey are worth a bit of change.
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 The Official Morton Downey Jr. Website
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 Zap2it - TV news - Fox Studios Creating Telefilm On Morton Downey, Jr.
Dave Madden, the executive at Fox in charge of the show, confirmed the project is being developed for the studio.
Show," he said, "nobody had ever quite seen (anything like) this guy who was on his feet chain-smoking and yelling in people's faces.
As for who will play Downey, the role has yet to be cast -- although Downey himself thinks Jerry Orbach would be perfect.
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 Morton Downey Jr
Morton Downey Jr MORBID CURIOSITY: Celebrity Tombstones Across America
Morton Downey Jr December 9, 1933 - March 12, 2001
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 MORTON DOWNEY! (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)
1933 Letter from Big Band Vocalist
and Father of Notorious ...
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Nicknamed the Irish Nightinglae, Morton Downey was popular tenor and radio personality who was named "Radio Singer of the Year" in 1932.
Today, however, he is best known for being the father of a notorious son, Morton Downey, Jr.
This letter from Downey Senior is dated April 4, 1933 and is in very good condition except for a small piece missing from the upper left corner (visible in scan).
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 Whatever Happened To: Morton Downey, Jr.
One of the protypical "shock jocks" of talk radio and front running right-wing loon, Morton Downey, Jr.
made the transition to television with The Morton Downey Jr.
After an incident allegedly involving "neo nazis" who cut his hair and spray-painted a swastika on his face, the show was yanked.
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 Morton Downey Sr. Movies - Morton Downey Sr. Film - Morton Downey Sr. TV Shows
This list contains all contributed appearances for Morton Downey Sr..
All appearances can be made at the individual TV Show or episode level.
Rocky Marciano / Anne Jeffreys / Morton Downey Sr.
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