Shouldn’t chuckle but it IS kinda funny.....lol
The Cavett epi never ran, although Cavett’s talked about it in interviews. There was an RN in audience.
My octogenarian father still subscribes to Prevention.
Hmmm, I used to watch the good Dr. Cavett (smirk) back in those days, but I have no memory of this incident.
Late night comedians -- and I guess it was only Johnny Carson back then -- had a field day with the commercial for what seemed like years.
In fact, Gibbons died a year after the commercial came out, and though it all seems so fresh in my mind, all that happened about forty years ago.
Rodale was 72 when he died -- a pretty long life actually. Rodale Books and Rodale Inc. are still around and going strong.
I remember when this happened. It made all the papers and every smoker across the fruited plain had a laugh at Rodale’s expense. And those were the days before Prevention got good-looking. In those days, it looked like a Stalinist tract.
Jim Fixx, a running fanatic died while running at the age of 52.
Jim Fixx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jump to Death - Death[edit]. On July 20, 1984, Fixx died at age 52 of a fulminant heart attack, after his daily run on Vermont Route 15 in Hardwick.
According to others, Cavett asked, "Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?". Cavett himself said that he "emphatically" did not recall saying this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Irving_Rodale
Twitter back then? Did they have to mail in a punch card or two for each message?
It is important to remember that off-brand ideas only thrive, much like comedy, when there is a grain of truth behind them.
In this case, America has long had very dubious food processing, counterbalanced by very dubious health food kooks. For example, Europeans were horrified with meat processing in Chicago. It didn’t help that the Chicago “Sausage King” Adolph Luetgert murdered his wife in 1897 and dissolved her in a vat of lye in his meat packing plant.
Americans didn’t worry about the meat they were eating until they read The Jungle, by socialist Upton Sinclair.
There were many other bad food scandals, much like those in China today. Coloring canned peas and pickles with poisonous copper chlorate, to the use of spoiled food and non-nutritious fillers.
Dying on-stage isn’t all that rare. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainers_who_died_during_a_performance
Thanks Scoutmaster.