Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on Wbzyston's Radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to our number two of Nightside. Dan Ray
Speaker 2: is off tonight, he'll be off tomorrow. Night should be
Speaker 2: back on Monday. And when you call him on Monday,
Speaker 2: ask him how his vacation went. I have a gentleman.
Speaker 2: When you hear his name, it's going to take you
Speaker 2: instantly to the world of news because for years and
Speaker 2: years you heard him say, my name is blank blank
Speaker 2: for ABC News. And I first got him to be
Speaker 2: on the radio with me about a year and a
Speaker 2: half ago, and I've had him on now. This will
Speaker 2: be my third time with him, and I always enjoy
Speaker 2: hearing him just retell stories of his career. Ladies and
Speaker 2: gentlemen of Nightside, please welcome mister Bill dial Bill. Thank
Speaker 2: you for saying yesterday coming back again.
Speaker 3: Well, what a wonderful opening. That is just very beautiful.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Morgan.
Speaker 2: So, what do you think about news climate of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four?
Speaker 3: Oh, you must be talking about the election coming up.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about everything that's happened over the past eight months,
Speaker 2: and the election is definitely a part of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we can talk about that. Yeah. In a
Speaker 3: little bit. I did want to talk about something if
Speaker 3: you'd let me. You know, I've interviewed some of the
Speaker 3: greatest celebrities in our era, Yes you have, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 3: including Elizabeth Taylor, and I never interviewed her personally, but
Speaker 3: once you know, she was very involved.
Speaker 4: In the age effort.
Speaker 3: Why he was the nineteen nineties and so forth, and
Speaker 3: they were doing a big thing at the Jabba Center
Speaker 3: and I was there for that, so I never got
Speaker 3: a chance to talk to her there, but I admired
Speaker 3: her so much. And now on television, I think it's
Speaker 3: on HBO and Max, they have a fabulous, fabulous program
Speaker 3: called It's a documentary Elizabeth Taylor the Lost Tapes, YELP
Speaker 3: with her own voice. There there was a man who
Speaker 3: was interviewing her years ago, back I think in the
Speaker 3: mid eighties, and so all of this is Elizabeth Taylor
Speaker 3: talking and it's just beautiful to hear what she said
Speaker 3: about her life with Richard Burton. You know, she was
Speaker 3: buried how any times? Eight times?
Speaker 2: In twice Richard Burton.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and she stole h Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot to talk about. But that's a
Speaker 3: terrific program. It's well done, and again it's it's now
Speaker 3: out on HBO and HBO Max.
Speaker 2: Well, when you think about her image and you compare
Speaker 2: that to Debbie Reynolds, I can understand how Eddie Fisher
Speaker 2: allowed his head to be turned. I won't go into
Speaker 2: any greater detail than what I just said, but it's
Speaker 2: a very believable turning of Eddie Fisher's head away from
Speaker 2: Debbie and towards Elizabeth. Was I tactful enough and now
Speaker 2: I said that.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: She of course really loved Mike Todd, who was an
Speaker 3: imversario in the movie business. He died in a plane
Speaker 3: crash and I think that really crushed her. She was
Speaker 3: so unhappy about that. But anyway, that's Elizabeth Taylor, who
Speaker 3: I just wanted to mention great films. Of course, uh
Speaker 3: as we all know Cleopatra having a hot ten roof.
Speaker 2: Uhs, I said, Betterfield eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I loved her in that.
Speaker 2: Yes, she she in the camera had a mutual love
Speaker 2: affair for each other. And that goes back ahead.
Speaker 3: We last talked Morgan, we've lost some some biggies in
Speaker 3: the business. One that maybe your audience wasn't familiar with,
Speaker 3: but Fischer was doctor Ruth Westtheimer Doctor Ruth.
Speaker 4: She did a.
Speaker 3: Program on radio and television called Sexually Speaking, and she really,
Speaker 3: you know, let it all hang out, don't know doubt
Speaker 3: about it. She was quite something, only four foot seven.
Speaker 3: She was a Holocaust survivor, yes, and so I really
Speaker 3: enjoyed interviewing her a couple of times. One other person
Speaker 3: that I would like to mention because I'm on WBZ,
Speaker 3: Dick Summer died not too long ago.
Speaker 2: He was a friend of the show, a friend of mine.
Speaker 2: I had him on at least a half a dozen
Speaker 2: times over the years. And boy with somebody tailor maid
Speaker 2: to do radio, to communicate with this medium and do
Speaker 2: it so smoothly, Dick Summer.
Speaker 3: He had a beautiful delivery, beautiful voice.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: After WBZ, he worked at several other stations, including WNW
Speaker 3: in New York, where I got to know him quite well.
Speaker 3: But I really miss people like that on the air.
Speaker 3: And he was special, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: I really. Right now, I closed my eyes and he
Speaker 2: did a TV commercial for a lawyer's office, a Bender
Speaker 2: and Pender, and I can hear his liner right now,
Speaker 2: the way he would just say bender and Bender. I
Speaker 2: just it was he had a fingerprint voice, as you do.
Speaker 2: You have a fingerprint voice.
Speaker 3: Well, I've never heard that term before, because that's very
Speaker 3: nice of you to say that, after so many years
Speaker 3: in the business, a fingerprint voice. Yes, I'll have to
Speaker 3: tell my wife that.
Speaker 2: All right, you have my permission to use that. Let
Speaker 2: me take my first break of the hour. You've you've
Speaker 2: already got a phone call online, and I'll mention the
Speaker 2: phone numbers if anyone else wants to call in and
Speaker 2: speak with this gentleman. You've heard his liners for years
Speaker 2: here on BZ and depending on if you're not from Boston,
Speaker 2: because we hit thirty eight states, I'm sure you've heard
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Life Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Dan should be back on Monday. He's been on vacation.
Speaker 2: I've been very fortunate to get as many of the
Speaker 2: Dan Ray eight to midnight shifts that I have gotten.
Speaker 2: I had my first a week ago on Thursday. I
Speaker 2: was here Monday, I was here last night. Obviously, I'm
Speaker 2: here tonight, and i'll be here tomorrow night. And right
Speaker 2: now I'm joined by a news legend, mister Bill Dial
Speaker 2: ABC News, among other things. And Bill, your book is
Speaker 2: still available, is it not.
Speaker 3: There's a couple of books that are out. One is
Speaker 3: called Celebrity Chatter fifty years of my many interviews, So
Speaker 3: the more recent one, did they really say that? The
Speaker 3: great quotes from famous people like Catherine Hepburn for instance,
Speaker 3: of course she said, I've had regrets. Unless you're an
Speaker 3: absolute moron, you have regrets. You know, life's tragic at times.
Speaker 3: I've had my share. Well, it's that kind of a book.
Speaker 3: It was a fun book to write, all right. And
Speaker 3: by the way, I'm on something. I hope maybe you're
Speaker 3: listeners do this now. And then I love flea markets.
Speaker 3: My wife anger angry at me, okay, because she says,
Speaker 3: don't bring anything more home, But I love going to
Speaker 3: flea markets. How about you?
Speaker 2: There used to be one on the Rainndom Taunton Line,
Speaker 2: which is about maybe twenty five miles a bit south
Speaker 2: of Boston and was called the Raindom Flea. And I
Speaker 2: used to go there and pick and choose, and there
Speaker 2: were nickknacks that really I didn't need, but I would
Speaker 2: buy them and bring them home anyway, because that's what
Speaker 2: a flea market is for. Something entice you to reach
Speaker 2: into your wallet and pull out a couple of bills
Speaker 2: and buy this. So by that nick knack, tell you what.
Speaker 2: Let me take a phone call Doreen and Chell. Okay,
Speaker 2: you've called, and uh, welcome to night Side.
Speaker 5: Doreene, him Moregan, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm fine, Don and you.
Speaker 5: And your to your guest, mister Scale Scale. There was
Speaker 5: a flea market in Vea. We had those cinema shows
Speaker 5: were at one time. I know right now it's no
Speaker 5: longer there because Amazon now is there.
Speaker 2: Flea markets are kind of fading away, and whereas almost
Speaker 2: most major communities had one within their environs, and now five, ten, fifteen,
Speaker 2: twenty years later, they've dwindled. You can't really find them anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they still happened, but they're not as commonplace
Speaker 2: as they once had been.
Speaker 5: No stal Go ahead, No, I'm sorry, I interrupted, that's
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 3: Morgan markets in New York that are still very popular.
Speaker 3: The one is on the West side of Manhattan. Another
Speaker 3: one is in Chelsea, which is in down in Lower Manhattan,
Speaker 3: and I try to stop at it, both of them
Speaker 3: every once in a while. I need a celebrity, believe
Speaker 3: it or not, at a flea market. Bernadette Peters is
Speaker 3: the great singer. She was at a flea market not
Speaker 3: too long ago and I said, well, well, what are.
Speaker 4: You doing here?
Speaker 3: And she said, well, my jeweler is here. You know,
Speaker 3: a lot of jewelry is very popular at flea markets,
Speaker 3: and so she wanted to meet her jeweler for something
Speaker 3: that she was buying.
Speaker 2: It's ironic you mentioned Chelsea because there's a community just
Speaker 2: off of Boston all right next to the airport Chelsea,
Speaker 2: mass So we've got to Chelsea and you just mentioned
Speaker 2: and that's where Dorene is from, because I have her
Speaker 2: name and her community on my computer stream. So you
Speaker 2: talked about Chelsea and Dorene is from Chelsea.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And and Morgan, I want to tell you that you
Speaker 5: have most unique voice yourself.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you.
Speaker 5: It's always a pleasure talking to you and your guests.
Speaker 5: You have a lovely guests all the time important guests.
Speaker 5: And I shall talk to you next time, Doreine.
Speaker 2: I look forward to the next time we speak. Thank
Speaker 2: you for making this moment happen. You enjoy your Thursday
Speaker 2: all right? Now, you want to talk more about the
Speaker 2: quotes that are in your second book Bill, anyone else come?
Speaker 2: You mentioned Katherine Hepburn, any others come to mind off
Speaker 2: the top of your head.
Speaker 4: Lily Comlin.
Speaker 3: Uh, she was so great and she's still alive. Thank goodness,
Speaker 3: Lilly said to me, I'm reading from my book right now.
Speaker 3: I never dreamed of stardom growing up. But my neighbor's
Speaker 3: in Detroit.
Speaker 2: Uh uh do we lose Bill? All right? Rob, Rob
Speaker 2: endeavor to reconnect. I remind him just where he left off.
Speaker 2: And people, if you want to call in six one, seven, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty or eight eight eight nineteen nineteen thirty, you
Speaker 2: do that next hour. We've got Susan Brigman, who wrote
Speaker 2: a book about all the interesting stops along Route one
Speaker 2: north of Boston. That Route one, and Bill you you
Speaker 2: left off by saying Lily Tomlin's quote back from her
Speaker 2: days in Detroit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she said, my neighbors were a lot more interesting
Speaker 3: than Rita Hey were with her Atlanta Turner. I was
Speaker 3: just happy, she said, making the living, and these people
Speaker 3: were gratifyed.
Speaker 2: And she had had a great career, exploded upon the
Speaker 2: public scene. Would laugh in many great movies in her career,
Speaker 2: and her last series that I'm aware of was West Wing,
Speaker 2: which was the President's Secretary, and that was a very
Speaker 2: memorable role for her. I hope she got a kick
Speaker 2: out of playing that role of Debbie the President.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right, Jane Fonda. Of course, she's still with
Speaker 3: us the I think.
Speaker 4: Eighty five years old.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: And I loved her viewing her.
Speaker 3: But you know, the thing that really kind of took
Speaker 3: me back, as you know, she's got.
Speaker 4: The label hanoid.
Speaker 3: Jane, Yes, but she said, you know, I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: to my grave with that quote that I said that
Speaker 3: I was on a gun and northree of them, I'm
Speaker 3: sitting there. So it's things like that that you think
Speaker 3: about when you're interviewing people over the years.
Speaker 2: And there are some people whose popularity explodes for a
Speaker 2: core of years, but they outlive that particular pinpoint in
Speaker 2: their career. And they're still here, as you mentioned with
Speaker 2: both Lily Tomlin and Jane Fond. And Jane Fond, who's
Speaker 2: looked upon as one of the most beautiful women in
Speaker 2: the world, Yeah, in her twenties, but now that she's
Speaker 2: in her I'm getting I've seen late seventies, early eighties.
Speaker 2: Is that accurate?
Speaker 4: She's eighty five, right, She's.
Speaker 2: No longer looked upon as being the most beautiful and
Speaker 2: one of the most beautiful women in the world, but
Speaker 2: she's scratched down shore. Interesting still, yep, yep.
Speaker 3: I interviewed Christopher Reeves many years ago, who played obviously Superman,
Speaker 3: but you know, he talked about his one of jumping horses,
Speaker 3: and I thought about that because I was watching the
Speaker 3: horses at the Olympics and it's going on right now,
Speaker 3: and he said that he was well trained to the sport.
Speaker 4: Only two years.
Speaker 3: Later he became paralyzed from that awful, awful accident he
Speaker 3: had a horse helping exhibition. So you think about things
Speaker 3: that kind of flip out during interviews, and they come
Speaker 3: back to haunt too.
Speaker 2: And that type of accident is more frequent than we
Speaker 2: hear about, but we hear about it when it's a celebrity,
Speaker 2: the status of a major actor like Christopher Reeve was,
Speaker 2: and being paralyzed from the fall from a horse happens
Speaker 2: a lot more than you read about. They still want
Speaker 2: to do it. They want to, you know, jump those fences.
Speaker 2: I know they're called oxs. Yes, I have, yes, I have.
Speaker 3: Every today that one of the runners who won uh
Speaker 3: was running with cold.
Speaker 2: And collapsed, collapsed as soon as the finish line. They
Speaker 2: had to put them in a wheelchair.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's they.
Speaker 2: Is sport. That is what sport is, pushing yourself to
Speaker 2: the limit and then finding just another smidgen of energy
Speaker 2: to go beyond the limit.
Speaker 3: Real, I ask if you're talking about celebrities now, Erica
Speaker 3: jon who was the flying Oh boy, you were ready
Speaker 3: up on some things that surprised me that you will
Speaker 3: remember that.
Speaker 2: II. So my job, and I take my job seriously.
Speaker 2: And you know, speaking of my job, I'm right at
Speaker 2: a break time. So we'll pick up with whatever carment
Speaker 2: you're about to make about Erica on the other side
Speaker 2: of the news. And anyone who wants to call in
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two,
Speaker 2: nine ten thirty, you can speak with Bill Dial and
Speaker 2: he is dropping names, well known names from our mind
Speaker 2: and culture and history. You want to call in and
Speaker 2: maybe proud build a mention somebody that he has chatted with.
Speaker 2: That will put a smile on your face hearing this
Speaker 2: story about their name being mentioned here on Nightside. My
Speaker 2: name is Morgan, filling in for Dan Ray. Time and
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Speaker 4: It's night Side Radio.
Speaker 2: I'm Morgan filling in for Dan. Dan should be back
Speaker 2: on Monday. Bill Deal is my guest. And Bill, you
Speaker 2: get a call from your neck of the woods. Gary
Speaker 2: in New Jersey has called in to speak with you
Speaker 2: here on Nightside.
Speaker 3: Gary, Good evening is our signal getting to the New Jersey.
Speaker 6: Uh, well there. I live in rural southern New Jersey
Speaker 6: and I listened to you guys on a transistor AMFM
Speaker 6: radio and I have to sit in a certain spot
Speaker 6: and then I get it.
Speaker 2: They still radios.
Speaker 6: I have, Yes, I'm an analog man in a digital world,
Speaker 6: the feeling. But what I did have was the question.
Speaker 6: I grew up in Brooklyn and I listened to New
Speaker 6: York radios. I'm in my seventies, Okay, and what I
Speaker 6: want to know is what happened that they sort of
Speaker 6: abandoned the medium. I remember as a young kid, I
Speaker 6: used to listen to Jean Shepherd every night on WOOR.
Speaker 6: I remember, you know, in my house there were certain
Speaker 6: times that the radio was on listening to certain personalities,
Speaker 6: and it seems that they've kind of just abandoned it
Speaker 6: most of the time. I mean, like your show, I
Speaker 6: like to listen to you when you're on, you know,
Speaker 6: because it's not all politics, and it seems that's what
Speaker 6: it's become, is, you know, just something about politics, whether
Speaker 6: it's right or left, and there's a lot of the
Speaker 6: entertainment value seems.
Speaker 3: To be done youtely right though. Color So you know,
Speaker 3: you mentioned Gene Shepherd, one of the great radio storytellers.
Speaker 4: I loved listening.
Speaker 6: To him r New York years ago, you know, but
Speaker 6: there were others too. I used to listen to one
Speaker 6: station you might remember it WMCA that a guy on
Speaker 6: in the middle of the night, long John Neville with
Speaker 6: his wife can and they had crazy stuff on, but
Speaker 6: it was so entertaining, and I think it's lost a
Speaker 6: lot of that zip radio today.
Speaker 3: I love your comment and analog man in the digital.
Speaker 6: World doing quite well. My head.
Speaker 2: Gary, I will say this, I've been with BZ since
Speaker 2: the mid nineties. I have never ever been pointed in
Speaker 2: a direction by my bosses. I have had to adjust
Speaker 2: at times I've been on the air. I was on
Speaker 2: the air of the night that someone tried to assassinate
Speaker 2: Donald Trump, so the show I had planned, I tabled
Speaker 2: that and I had to focus on that particular incident.
Speaker 2: I was on the air when the Lewis and Maine
Speaker 2: circumstance happened last fall, and Nicole Davis, who's doing news
Speaker 2: tonight here on BZ, she and I had to focus
Speaker 2: on that because that was an evolving story. That story happened,
Speaker 2: I do believe it was a Wednesday, and by Friday
Speaker 2: there was the inevitable solution to that story. But the
Speaker 2: key was I was filling in for Dan Ray that week,
Speaker 2: and the things that I had planned I had the
Speaker 2: table and pushed to the side. But usually I do
Speaker 2: things that are much more comfortable for people to listen.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you you have a variety of guests.
Speaker 6: I do about certain things that people might not even
Speaker 6: think are interesting. I mean, you had that one guy
Speaker 6: comes on about the records and everything.
Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you what. We don't have enough of that today,
Speaker 6: and we don't have we don't have enough radio personalities
Speaker 6: anymore that speak to you and not at you. And
Speaker 6: I think we've I think a lot of the young
Speaker 6: people today missed out on something that was really good.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this and then Bill make his carment.
Speaker 2: But the world of radio just a generic five letter word.
Speaker 2: Radio is not what it was when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: elementary school, junior high, high school, college, sixties seventies. It's
Speaker 2: not what it was then. And I do the best
Speaker 2: I can to try and keep in touch with the
Speaker 2: way it used to be. Bill, Do you have.
Speaker 5: Any comment you're doing it now?
Speaker 3: We've got more election coming up. We're going to have
Speaker 3: a lot of talking heads, and your listener from New
Speaker 3: Jersey knows what I'm talking about. So we've just got
Speaker 3: to try to get back to the conversations between us
Speaker 3: and stop yelling at everybody.
Speaker 6: Absolutely absolutely, well, listen, you guys, have a good night.
Speaker 6: And it was a pleasure talking to you, Jerry.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the call. You keep listening, Okay, I.
Speaker 6: Certainly do, all right, I got to be in one
Speaker 6: spot of the house to get you guys.
Speaker 2: Well, make sure you've got food and beverages in that
Speaker 2: one spot for you.
Speaker 6: That's fine.
Speaker 4: Good night, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Garrety, good night to you too, and Billy, do you.
Speaker 7: Have any other quotes that you want to share in
Speaker 7: my audience? O, Well, before you went to the break,
Speaker 7: we mentioned Erica joons Yes, We're a flying and I
Speaker 7: asked her if she could live her life over again,
Speaker 7: she said.
Speaker 3: I would not care at all what people thought of me.
Speaker 3: I would be born knowing what I know. Now, that's
Speaker 3: what you think of yourself, that's important. I would never
Speaker 3: read my reviews, neither the good ones or the bad ones,
Speaker 3: and care far less about being liked and being loved.
Speaker 3: Do what I had to do in the world with
Speaker 3: the what they wish for approval.
Speaker 4: She once told me.
Speaker 3: She said she tried to rent a house up in
Speaker 3: Connecticut and they wouldn't rent it to her because, as
Speaker 3: they said, oh, you're those show business people say you're
Speaker 3: gonna have big parties all the time.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the front foot, not necessarily leading you to
Speaker 2: where it needs to be. And your quote from Erica
Speaker 2: reminded me a little bit of the Kipling quote from If,
Speaker 2: and I'm paraphrasing about good things and bad things and
Speaker 2: treating those two impostors just the same. And that's that
Speaker 2: last line is a direct quote from that poem. And
Speaker 2: that's life. You can't get too smiley happy when compliments
Speaker 2: come a way, and you can't get too frownie sad
Speaker 2: when detractors get their points across. Do the best you
Speaker 2: can to keep an even keel.
Speaker 3: Yep, you're right, I agree. I totally agree with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And as I said the earlier, the with the election
Speaker 3: coming up, we're gonna hear so many talking heads. It's
Speaker 3: going to be scary. I don't know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I don't think you do either, Morgan.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. But I will say this, come the
Speaker 2: headlines the next morning on the major newspapers. The quotes
Speaker 2: that we will read will be infuriating for most people.
Speaker 2: Whether you are an elephant or a donkey, you're going
Speaker 2: to be infuriated at hearing what the debates yielded in
Speaker 2: last night's telecast. I know there are three of them
Speaker 2: that are planned. One is confirmed for September. I'm just
Speaker 2: shuddering at the potentiality of what we're going to hear.
Speaker 4: It's a little scary, it's a lot scary.
Speaker 2: Well, if you want to call in, I've got Bill
Speaker 2: Deal here, and Bill, could you give the title of
Speaker 2: your books one more time? And people, it's well worth
Speaker 2: if you can scouting around.
Speaker 3: They're on Amazon. Fifty years of celebrity chatter. And the
Speaker 3: other one is did they really say that? Great quotes
Speaker 3: from famous people?
Speaker 4: Uh huh.
Speaker 3: Sean Connery was one of them. When I was interviewing him,
Speaker 3: I said, you know, I said, people in the magazine
Speaker 3: once said you were the sexiest man alive, and he said, well,
Speaker 3: there aren't many dead men, so alive.
Speaker 4: He was.
Speaker 2: He was one of my favorites because I was a
Speaker 2: huge James Bond fan, and of the half dozen men
Speaker 2: who played that role, he was still the best.
Speaker 4: Nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2: Doctor no Ye, your productions, everything or nothing. That's what
Speaker 2: Eon stood for. According to Brooke, Brocoli and Saltzman, if
Speaker 2: you want to call in six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty or eight eight, eight nine to nine, ten
Speaker 2: thirty Herd Gary from New Jersey, just call in to
Speaker 2: speak to my buddy Bill Deal. You can do the
Speaker 2: same thing. This is night Side. I am Morgan. Dan
Speaker 2: Ray will be back on Monday, I promise you. But
Speaker 2: I'm here for the rest of the night, and I'll
Speaker 2: be here tomorrow night as well, and I'll be on
Speaker 2: my show Saturday. A lot of you don't know I
Speaker 2: do my own show on Saturdays here at ten pm.
Speaker 2: That aside the time and temperature here on night Side
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: The bill deal is here And before I take my
Speaker 2: next phone call, they'll have a question if If the
Speaker 2: first answer is yes, do you have any children? And
Speaker 2: if so, do they want to follow in your footsteps?
Speaker 3: Well, that's always a question that people ask. I guess
Speaker 3: in the acting world it's usually yes, they do get
Speaker 3: involved in the business in acting. My daughter, who was
Speaker 3: in her fifties, she lives in Needham, Massachusetts, next.
Speaker 2: Town for me. I live in Newton, next town overs
Speaker 2: need Him.
Speaker 3: Yep, do you know that area? But she had no
Speaker 3: interest in what I do. She's a child psychologist. She
Speaker 3: did enjoy sitting in on some interviews that I had done.
Speaker 3: Neil Diamond was one. She always wanted to meet him,
Speaker 3: and my wife said, so then you know he's your
Speaker 3: father's age. But that was a delightful interview and she
Speaker 3: got to meet him and go see him at a show.
Speaker 3: We have two grandchildren who are delightful. One of them, Teddy,
Speaker 3: is studying Russian believing at the University of New Hampshire. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 3: And our granddaughter Lilah, she is seventeen looking at colleges now.
Speaker 3: So that's what's going on up there. When my daughter's
Speaker 3: husband is a lawyer in Boston.
Speaker 2: You mentioned Needham. On Tuesdays, I entertain at a place
Speaker 2: called the Midway Restaurant and I do trivia as kind
Speaker 2: of an interaction with the audience. Have been doing that
Speaker 2: since the eighties and I'm there at this place for
Speaker 2: the past seven or eight years on Tuesday nights from
Speaker 2: six to seven thirty. And there's a nice feel of
Speaker 2: entertaining and need them. So tell you tell your daughter
Speaker 2: next time you speak to her. She's of a mind too,
Speaker 2: come and check me out on Washington Street and eat him.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'd love to go up there, So next time
Speaker 3: that we're up there, if you're there on Tuesday, So
Speaker 3: I'd love to meet you in person.
Speaker 2: Oh, Bill, I would treasure that, I truly would.
Speaker 3: You and I have such a great rapport on on analog.
Speaker 2: Radio, and I would take it as an honor to
Speaker 2: buy you the quick nosh and the beverage.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: That I interviewed, Yes.
Speaker 3: Tell us Jimmer. I remember so well. She said I
Speaker 3: had two facelips that if I have another one that
Speaker 3: will be a cesarean.
Speaker 2: Lie Yep. I'd loved her jokes about Bang, her husband,
Speaker 2: Michael and Adam b. Thank you for calling. Don't get nervous.
Speaker 2: I saved some time for your call. H Hello, Michael.
Speaker 8: Hey Bill, I got to question so far and halfway
Speaker 8: through I'll know the answer. I you the same Bill
Speaker 8: Deal that had the cool hit record back and in
Speaker 8: sixty nine or seventy Bill Dial on the Rondelles.
Speaker 4: The same Bill Deal.
Speaker 3: Yeah. There was a Bill Deal who was an author
Speaker 3: who was quite famous. And there was a Bill Deal
Speaker 3: who was the newspaper man and a disc jockey other Minneapolis.
Speaker 3: And there is a David Deal who's a football player
Speaker 3: I think for the New York Giants.
Speaker 8: Okay, there was a Bill Dial in the seventies. It
Speaker 8: was in the late sixties, early seventies, and they.
Speaker 5: Had I think it was late sixties, they had hit song.
Speaker 3: I can't think of it at the moment.
Speaker 8: They were and even.
Speaker 5: Though I never saw pictures of him, they.
Speaker 8: Just reminded me of a uh logan wouldn't know what
Speaker 8: I mean.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, you know what.
Speaker 4: There was?
Speaker 3: Ah uh not a DJ, but a singer called Bill
Speaker 3: Deal and the Ron Bells.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, I saw one of his records that are
Speaker 3: speed markers, and I brought a hold there you go.
Speaker 3: That was okay, out of the woodwork.
Speaker 2: Did he spell Deal the way you spelled Deal?
Speaker 3: The I e h L.
Speaker 2: He spelled it the same way you sure?
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, that's what I was wondering if it was you.
Speaker 3: And so okay, Hey, thank you, Michael, thank you.
Speaker 2: For the call.
Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you, all right.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 2: I like the fact that you are aware of a
Speaker 2: football player, an author, and a singer who have had
Speaker 2: your name first and last name.
Speaker 3: Well, it never became famous in different ways, but there
Speaker 3: you go. Right the weather up there are you getting
Speaker 3: that storm?
Speaker 2: Parts of the state are getting it. The temperatures have
Speaker 2: gone into the sixties for the first time in weeks,
Speaker 2: but we're supposed to be back into the eighties tomorrow.
Speaker 4: A little chill in the air, my friend.
Speaker 2: Makes you think of September, which is one month away,
Speaker 2: two weeks away, yep. And how is it where you are.
Speaker 3: Or just getting the vestiges a little of the.
Speaker 4: Lustovers of the storm.
Speaker 3: So I think we're going to be all right here foul,
Speaker 3: the suburbs has gotten a lot of trees down and
Speaker 3: so forth. But yeah, this little storm really resonated all
Speaker 3: over the Eastern seaboard.
Speaker 2: Well, this is a time of year, obviously, everybody knows.
Speaker 2: From June first to the thirtieth of November that's hurricane season.
Speaker 2: And hurricanes necessarily don't have to be seventy five plus
Speaker 2: miles an hour. The tropical storms, which is what you
Speaker 2: get before, can grow into a hurricane fifty sixty miles
Speaker 2: an hour can do enough damage knock down wires and
Speaker 2: tree limbs. And this is why we live where we live.
Speaker 2: It's better than living in Tornado Alley. And whether you're
Speaker 2: in Minnesota or the Carolinas.
Speaker 3: They're trying to rebuild Mali. Now over that awful fires.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, a year ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3: They're trying to get back to normal and rebuild that lovely,
Speaker 3: beautiful area in Hawaiian Are.
Speaker 2: There any stories that are out that you wish you
Speaker 2: could cover for any reason? It could be a story
Speaker 2: to put a smile on your face, or a political story,
Speaker 2: something that you've basically retired but you wish you was
Speaker 2: still active.
Speaker 3: Well, I always wanted to interview Doris Day, who was
Speaker 3: one of my favorite celebrities. Yeah, and my wife and
Speaker 3: I were driving up on the West Coast years ago
Speaker 3: and I got in touch with her manager and he
Speaker 3: said to me, he said, sorry, Bill, but we'd love
Speaker 3: to have you. But she just doesn't do any interviews anymore.
Speaker 3: It's a sad story because she was married to a
Speaker 3: guy named Marty Melchner Belcher and there I've read an
Speaker 3: old magazine recently and she said, Marty takes care of
Speaker 3: all my financial problems. Turned out because he was a
Speaker 3: gambler and he just about wrecked her career with the
Speaker 3: money problems when he died.
Speaker 2: And that happens so frequently. The person you most trust
Speaker 2: turned out to be fingers deep into your financial pie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I became friends with Angelian, who was a.
Speaker 4: Very lovely actress, Jennifer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and her husband was wonderful, wonderful guy. She married
Speaker 3: a guy who was her bodyguard, and we became friends.
Speaker 3: And suddenly I didn't hear from him. Turned out that
Speaker 3: they were out driving one night in Los Angeles and
Speaker 3: he had a stroke and he smacked into a tree
Speaker 3: and then he died not too long ago. So you know,
Speaker 3: you see stories like this and you fall in love
Speaker 3: with the actresses and their spouses. And I never really
Speaker 3: got to know any actresses or anyone that close. But
Speaker 3: Angeli and I did through her husband with a lovely story,
Speaker 3: and I missed him a lot.
Speaker 2: Well, we've come to the end of our hour, bet. Bill.
Speaker 2: You know I will have you back again. That's a
Speaker 2: promise from my heart. And I thank you for be
Speaker 2: all the time that you gave me tonight.
Speaker 3: I still go back to the old days of radio.
Speaker 4: One oh three. Here you go.
Speaker 2: Radio for all the England. Bill, thank you for your time.
Speaker 2: I look forward to our next time. You take my friend,
Speaker 2: you take care. I love you too, all right, people,
Speaker 2: Susan Bregman will be here after the news time and
Speaker 2: temperature nine fifty eight sixty four degrees