Word: pitchman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hollywood and other film capitals till he died looking for work. People knew him only as the fat man, a butt of lame jokes. Unable to finance his dream projects (including a film about the making of The Cradle Will Rock), Welles earned eating money as a narrator and pitchman. He ended as he began. The Voice. The Shadow...
Simpson's career as a legitimate sports commentator or a product pitchman, even in this numbed, post-Tonya Harding age, may be over. Fox, for one, has stated publicly that it won't hire him. "Athletes in the past have transcended the race issue," says Vuono. "That's the beauty of sports. But O.J.'s case has polarized people...
DIED. JOHN CAMERON SWAYZE, 89, newscaster turned pitchman; in Sarasota, Florida. Swayze found fame in 1949 "hopscotching the world for headlines" on Camel News Caravan, a network-news prototype. The Kansan later attained pop icondom hawking Timex watches, the ones that would "take a licking and keep on ticking...
...recent years, he's been a bear of an actor, a roly-poly pitchman and a clown connoisseur of everything edible. Now, once again, just call him champ. In the 10th round of the big fight Saturday night, George Foreman, 45, knocked out Michael Moorer, 26, to regain the heavyweight title he lost 20 years ago to Muhammad Ali. Foreman's incredible victory was an inspiration to his aging generation and proved that baby boomers still have some boom left...
...Iacocca pitchman for Chrysler, NEIL ARMSTRONG is chairman of a defense electronics firm. He lives on a farm in Ohio, zealously guarding his privacy, granting no interviews on the anniversary of his one small step...