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	Steve Allen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Allen was also the producer of the award-winning PBS series Meeting of Minds, a "talk show" with notable historical figures, with Steve Allen serving as host.
		Allen was a secular humanist and Humanist Laureate for the Academy of Humanism, a member of CSICOP and the Council for Secular Humanism.
		Allen's second wife was actress Jayne Meadows, by whom he had one son.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steve_Allen (1229 words)

	steve allen
		allen recorded frequently for coral, dot, roulette, emarcy, and decca during the peak of his tv fame and as late as 1992, taped an enjoyable mainstream set for concord jazz, plays jazz tonight..
		steve allen, the zany comedian and witty social commentator whose career zipped at warp speed from one occupation to the next--from hosting the original tonight show to lecturing about morality to composing thousands of songs--died monday night at the home of his son, bill, in encino.
		allen moved west for a job with hollywood radio station knx in 1948 and developed his now-famous routine of dabbling with the piano keys, chatting with his audience, commenting on his mail and improvising hijinks.
	www.united-mutations.com /a/steve_allen.htm (2437 words)

	A Tribute to Steve Allen
		Steve Allen was willing to defend often unpopular causes - he was a consistent liberal in politics, a humanist and skeptic in religion, an exponent of rationality, and a severe critic of raunch in TV and radio.
		Steve made it clear that he was not an atheist, but he was a freethinker in the best sense of the word; for he attacked throughout his book fanatic and dogmatic religion at a time when he felt that this kind of criticism was necessary.
		Steve Allen had been deeply concerned about the coarsening of common culture, about the level of tastelessness, in particular the vulgarities and obscenities which seem to be increasing every year, and also the level of violence and bloodshed.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/paul_kurtz/allen.html (1897 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Steve Allen
		Steve Allen, multi-faceted entertainer whose career encompassed nearly every form of media and credits include the launching of talk radio, piloting of the TV talk show, publication of 53 books, composition of 5,000 songs and brought laughter to generations of Americans, died October 30th, 2000 in California.
		Steve Allen lived most of his early life with the Donahues, who he remembered as an outrageous collection of characters, "sarcastic, volatile, sometimes disparaging, but very, very funny." As he grew older, Mr.
		Steve Allen once observed that he was a successful comedian without an act, and his slippery-fish, catch-this style of improvisation, where he could take a sudden distraction or inspiration and run with it often frustrated his producers and writers as much as it delighted his audiences.
	obits.com /allensteve.html (1560 words)

	Media Visions - Visionary \| Steve Allen
		A dedicated advocate of reasoning and effective education, Steve Allen's most enduring creative work may be the award-winning PBS series, "Meeting of Minds" (1977-81), scripted discussions among historic figures portrayed by actors sitting around a table and talking about their lives and principles.
		Allen: Well, I came out of radio, which was a marvelous school for television because the two had a lot in common, apart from the very obvious difference that one has pictures and the other has not.
		Fred Allen described television as a "bloody commotion." Of course, he was conditioned by his years in radio where background silence was necessary, and before that by his years in vaudeville where there would be nothing moving on stage but the comedian's mouth.
	www.media-visions.com /vis-allen.html (3479 words)

	Steve Allen Show, The
		Allen, too, served as host, but he was also innovative, funny and whimsical.
		On The Steve Allen Show, Presley appeared in a tuxedo and serenaded a bassett hound with his hit "You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog." Both strategies appeased nervous network censors, but each is emblematic of the show it served.
		Allen moved his segment to October 14 when both programs paid tribute to the late actor and showed clips from his last movie, Giant.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/steveallens/steveallens.htm (681 words)

	TV Pioneer Steve Allen Dies - Oct 31, 2000 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Allen would open each night sitting at his piano, riffing on current events and performing his greatest hits (including his signature tune, "This Could Be the Start of Something").
		Allen's other TV work included two short-lived shows called The Steve Allen Comedy Hour, one on CBS in 1967 and one on NBC in 1980, and the PBS series Meeting of the Minds, in which actors impersonating historical figures (Cleopatra, Darwin, Attila the Hun) sat around and discussed their world views.
		Allen was born in New York in 1921, the son of two vaudevillians.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,7320,00.html (714 words)

	Steve Allen Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 - October 30, 2000) was a musician, comedian and writer, best known as the father of the television talk show.
		After years in radio, Allen became the original host of The Tonight Show, from its first New York broadcast in 1953, up until 1957, when he was replaced by Jack Paar.
		Allen was also an accomplished comedy writer, and author of over 50 books, including Dumbth, a commentary on the American educational system and Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality (with Martin Gardner).
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/s/st/steve_allen.html (407 words)

	MSN Encarta - Steve Allen
		Steve Allen (1921-2000), American comedian, musician, and television (TV) personality, prominent in show business from the 1950s through the mid-1980s, noted for being the first host of “The Tonight Show,” which began broadcasting in 1954, on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network.
		From 1954 to 1957 Allen hosted “The Tonight Show,” which became popular for its freshness and intelligence and for the singers and comedians he assembled for regular appearances on the show.
		From 1956 to 1964 Allen hosted “The Steve Allen Show.” In 1964 he became host of the popular quiz show “I've Got a Secret” (1952-1967, 1972, 1976).
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	Steve Allen
		Allen suffered from asthma as a youth, and he switched colleges, from Iowa to Arizona, to deal with it.
		Allen did even better on television, adapting easily to the medium, and in 1953, NBC lured him away from CBS to usher in what has become a television institution: "Tonight." At first, it was just a local New York show, but it moved to the network in 1954.
		And although Allen would later become a vocal critic of the decline of cultural standards, he was an early supporter of rock 'n' roll, being one of the first to host Elvis Presley in his "Elvis the Pelvis" phase.
	www.spaceagepop.com /allen.htm (1306 words)

	National Press Club -- Steve Allen
		Comedian, author and composer Steve Allen has spent more than 50 years in show business, but may still be best known as the founding host of The Tonight Show.
		Today, Allen is pouring some his considerable energy into a campaign to clean up the medium that made him a legend.
		Allen is the honorary chairman of the Parents Television Council, established in 1995 to promote "family-friendly" programming.
	www.npr.org /programs/npc/2000/000331.sallen.html (317 words)

	Steve Allen
		Steve Allen sang, wrote books and songs, and was a comic, appearing on Broadway and in films.
		The Steve Allen Show was revived briefly in 1967 and again in 1980.
		One of the lesser known item about Steve Allen is that he was tattooed on national television in late 1950's.
	www.tattooarchive.com /history/allen_steve.htm (472 words)

	"Ragtime" with Steve Allen
		Allen, wanted to tell him how much his work has meant to me. But the truth is that I didn't say one word to him all evening, not even those times he turned and inadvertently elbowed me in my lower and hard-to-avoid abdomen.
		Steve Allen did a lot of the same things, but he also did television that could only have been television — unrehearsed bits, live demonstrations, unplanned conversation.
		Steve's crew was always pointing a camera out the side door of their theater and running over there to create some kind of mischief.
	www.povonline.com /cols/COL156.htm (2255 words)

	CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: A Look Back at Steve Allen in His Own Words - November 5, 2000
		ALLEN: Yes, I found she was attractive, but it was not that same, weird, love-at-first-sight thing.
		ALLEN: No, who would not be impressed by her beauty, of course, but she had the Freudian reaction.
		ALLEN: Yes, I look back at all these odd, not necessarily great, things I ever did, the oddest was definitely doing the Goodman movie for eight weeks, never missed a night of "The Tonight Show" live for live 90 minutes.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0011/04/lklw.00.html (6803 words)

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		Allen was working on the promotional plans for the December release of his 53rd book Steve Allen's Private Joke File, and adding the final touches to his manuscript for his 54th book, Vulgarians at the Gate concerning the rising tide of violence and vulgarity in the popular media.
		Steve Allen is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific composer of modern times.
		Once Allen, dressed as a policeman, raced out of the studio with a large salami, tossed it into the backseat of a taxi, and shouted to the driver, "Get this to Grand Central Station as quick as you can!" The driver sped off without a word.
	www.manbottle.com /humor/Steve_Allen.htm (692 words)

	Steve Allen
		Allen was proudest of his ``Meeting of Minds'' series, which appeared on PBS from 1976 to 1979.
		Steve Allen came by his humor naturally; both his parents, Billy Allen and Belle Montrose, were vaudeville comedians.
		Steve was 18 months old when his father died, and his mother continued touring the circuits as a single.
	members.aol.com /deathpool/obits00/allenste.html (902 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Steve Allen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen was born in New York City on December 26, 1921 to vaudeville performers Billy Allen and Belle Montrose.
		Allen grew up on the vaudeville circuit, attending over a dozen schools in his childhood even as he learned the essence of performing virtually through osmosis.
		Allen's best-known movie performance was the title role in the 1956 hit The Benny Goodman Story, and he has made cameo appearances in The Sunshine Boys (1975) and The Player (1992).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200053 (851 words)

	Steve Allen tribute (Skeptical Inquirer January 2001)
		Steve Allen, who died Oct. 30, 2000, was a unique, even heroic, figure in popular American culture.
		Most notably, Steve Allen accepted the appointment as Co-chairman (along with Nobel laureate Glenn Seaborg) of the Council for Media Integrity, a CSICOP-sponsored organization aimed at getting some balance in scientific reporting in the media and some fairness in evaluating pseudoscientific claims.
		Steve Allen was a freethinker-skeptic and humanist-in the best sense of those terms.
	www.csicop.org /si/2001-01/steve-allen.html (786 words)

	Steve Allen’s Attack upon the Bible : Christian Courier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Steve Allen was an accomplished composer (he had written some 4,000 songs).
		Allen makes the same hackneyed charges against the Genesis record of creation that are argued by his skeptical colleagues – baseless assertions that have been answered countless times.
		Allen is apparently unaware of the fact that “the world that then was” (2 Peter 3:6) is not the same as that which now is – a circumstance which even agnostics admit (Jastrow, 1977, p.
	www.christiancourier.com /archives/steveAllen.htm (3023 words)

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		Steve Allen, the urbane author and piano-playing, bon-mot-spinning entertainer was one of the closest things America had to a "popular intellectual." Before his death on Halloween, 2000, he devoted much of his time to trying to save the medium that brought him fame and that he considered redeemable.
		Steve Allen: I am not sure that the power of television—which is to say its influence—has changed much in the last half-century.
		Allen: I had been speaking out and writing for about fifteen years about the every-increasing wave of vulgarity that had come to dominate television.
	www.whitedot.org /issue/iss_story.asp?slug=SteveAllen (1053 words)

	Allen, Steve
		Steve Allen has appropriately been termed television's renaissance man. He has hosted numerous television programs, appeared in several motion pictures, written more than forty books, and composed several thousand songs.
		Allen began his career in radio in 1942 as an announcer for station KFAC in Los Angeles.
		Steve Allen and Ed Sullivan were perhaps as distinct from one another as two men could be.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/A/htmlA/allensteve/allensteve.htm (756 words)

	Remembering Steve Allen: Ed McMahon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And Steve Allen proved to everyone that that was a viable time period to entertain the audience.
		She flubbed a song, and Steve walked in and she said, "I'm not finished." Steve said, "yes you are," and it got a big laugh.
		That might have been scripted, but in Steve Allen's hands it sounded like an ad lib because he was so great at ad libbing.
	www.usatoday.com /community/chat/1101mcmahon.htm (1605 words)

	December 29, 2000, Hour 2: Rebroadcast: Steve Allen
		Steve Allen passed away recently, so if you missed the original conversation -- or just miss him -- don't miss this special archive edition of Science Friday.
		As you reach for that leftover slice of pie, you might be wondering what Ira could talk about with Steve Allen, the first host of the Tonight Show and a noted author and songwriter.
		Allen has frequently spoken out against what he sees as a tendency towards muddled thinking and "willful stupidity" in America, a tendency that he calls "dumbth." His award-winning television program "Meeting of Minds" brought together actors portraying notable people from throughout history, including Aristotle, Galileo, and Darwin.
	www.sciencefriday.com /pages/2000/Dec/hour2_122900.html (348 words)

	The Steve Allen Show
		Frank's first television appearance was in the early 60's on the Steve Allen Show.
		I don't recall how long each episode of The Steve Allen Show ran, but, I'd surmise 90-minutes (I could research it but I haven't) instead of 60 minutes as is popular these days.
		"In Praise of Steve Allen and Television of the Early 1960s"....thanks to television programming of nearly four decades ago, and Steve Allen for actually being hip back then, to allow a full 20 minutes of air-time to some nearly indescribable individal with a taste for the bizarre to do his thing.
	globalia.net /donlope/fz/videography/Steve_Allen_Show.html (596 words)

	Steve Allen Education Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The award is named for long-time Valley resident and legendary entertainer Steve Allen, who valued learning and spent much of his later years focused on speaking and writing about the importance of education.
		Allen, who created the original "Tonight Show" and composed more than 8,000 songs, was the first Master of Ceremonies for the Economic Alliance's Valley of the Stars Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony.
		Their son, Bill Allen, was the Economic Alliance's first president and CEO, and presented the awards.
	www.valleyofthestars.org /education/steve_allen_education_award.html (226 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Steve Allen
		Allen was a supporter of world government and served on the World Federalist Association Board of Advisers http://www.amherstvigil.org/92798.html.
		In spite of his liberal position on free speech, his later concerns about the smuttiness he observed on television caused him to make proposals restricting the content of programs.
		Allen was married to Jayne Meadows from 1954 until his death in 2000.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Steve_Allen (734 words)

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