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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on Wbzyston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome back to our number two of Nightside. Dan Ray
is off tonight, he'll be off tomorrow. Night should be
back on Monday. And when you call him on Monday,
ask him how his vacation went. I have a gentleman.
When you hear his name, it's going to take you
instantly to the world of news because for years and
(00:28):
years you heard him say, my name is blank blank
for ABC News. And I first got him to be
on the radio with me about a year and a
half ago, and I've had him on now. This will
be my third time with him, and I always enjoy
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hearing him just retell stories of his career. Ladies and
gentlemen of Nightside, please welcome mister Bill dial Bill. Thank
you for saying yesterday coming back again.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Well, what a wonderful opening. That is just very beautiful.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Morgan.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So, what do you think about news climate of twenty
twenty four?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh, you must be talking about the election coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm talking about everything that's happened over the past eight months,
and the election is definitely a part of it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, we can talk about that. Yeah. In a
little bit. I did want to talk about something if
you'd let me. You know, I've interviewed some of the
greatest celebrities in our era, Yes you have, I mean, yeah,
including Elizabeth Taylor, and I never interviewed her personally, but
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once you know, she was very involved.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
In the age effort.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Why he was the nineteen nineties and so forth, and
they were doing a big thing at the Jabba Center
and I was there for that, so I never got
a chance to talk to her there, but I admired
her so much. And now on television, I think it's
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on HBO and Max, they have a fabulous, fabulous program
called It's a documentary Elizabeth Taylor the Lost Tapes, YELP
with her own voice. There there was a man who
was interviewing her years ago, back I think in the
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mid eighties, and so all of this is Elizabeth Taylor
talking and it's just beautiful to hear what she said
about her life with Richard Burton. You know, she was
buried how any times? Eight times?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
In twice Richard Burton.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, and she stole h Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds.
So there's a lot to talk about. But that's a
terrific program. It's well done, and again it's it's now
out on HBO and HBO Max.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, when you think about her image and you compare
that to Debbie Reynolds, I can understand how Eddie Fisher
allowed his head to be turned. I won't go into
any greater detail than what I just said, but it's
a very believable turning of Eddie Fisher's head away from
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Debbie and towards Elizabeth. Was I tactful enough and now
I said that.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
She of course really loved Mike Todd, who was an
imversario in the movie business. He died in a plane
crash and I think that really crushed her. She was
so unhappy about that. But anyway, that's Elizabeth Taylor, who
I just wanted to mention great films. Of course, uh
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as we all know Cleopatra having a hot ten roof.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Uhs, I said, Betterfield eight.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, I loved her in that.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yes, she she in the camera had a mutual love
affair for each other. And that goes back ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We last talked Morgan, we've lost some some biggies in
the business. One that maybe your audience wasn't familiar with,
but Fischer was doctor Ruth Westtheimer Doctor Ruth.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
She did a.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Program on radio and television called Sexually Speaking, and she really,
you know, let it all hang out, don't know doubt
about it. She was quite something, only four foot seven.
She was a Holocaust survivor, yes, and so I really
enjoyed interviewing her a couple of times. One other person
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that I would like to mention because I'm on WBZ,
Dick Summer died not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He was a friend of the show, a friend of mine.
I had him on at least a half a dozen
times over the years. And boy with somebody tailor maid
to do radio, to communicate with this medium and do
it so smoothly, Dick Summer.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He had a beautiful delivery, beautiful voice.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
After WBZ, he worked at several other stations, including WNW
in New York, where I got to know him quite well.
But I really miss people like that on the air.
And he was special, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I really. Right now, I closed my eyes and he
did a TV commercial for a lawyer's office, a Bender
and Pender, and I can hear his liner right now,
the way he would just say bender and Bender. I
just it was he had a fingerprint voice, as you do.
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You have a fingerprint voice.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well, I've never heard that term before, because that's very
nice of you to say that, after so many years
in the business, a fingerprint voice. Yes, I'll have to
tell my wife that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
All right, you have my permission to use that. Let
me take my first break of the hour. You've you've
already got a phone call online, and I'll mention the
phone numbers if anyone else wants to call in and
speak with this gentleman. You've heard his liners for years
here on BZ and depending on if you're not from Boston,
(07:15):
because we hit thirty eight states, I'm sure you've heard
Bill deal ABC News six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
You want to call in and join our conversation four
roughly the next forty five minutes. Please do time and
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fifteen sixty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Life Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Dan should be back on Monday. He's been on vacation.
I've been very fortunate to get as many of the
Dan Ray eight to midnight shifts that I have gotten.
I had my first a week ago on Thursday. I
was here Monday, I was here last night. Obviously, I'm
here tonight, and i'll be here tomorrow night. And right
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now I'm joined by a news legend, mister Bill Dial
ABC News, among other things. And Bill, your book is
still available, is it not.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
There's a couple of books that are out. One is
called Celebrity Chatter fifty years of my many interviews, So
the more recent one, did they really say that? The
great quotes from famous people like Catherine Hepburn for instance,
of course she said, I've had regrets. Unless you're an
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absolute moron, you have regrets. You know, life's tragic at times.
I've had my share. Well, it's that kind of a book.
It was a fun book to write, all right. And
by the way, I'm on something. I hope maybe you're
listeners do this now. And then I love flea markets.
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My wife anger angry at me, okay, because she says,
don't bring anything more home, But I love going to
flea markets. How about you?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
There used to be one on the Rainndom Taunton Line,
which is about maybe twenty five miles a bit south
of Boston and was called the Raindom Flea. And I
used to go there and pick and choose, and there
were nickknacks that really I didn't need, but I would
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buy them and bring them home anyway, because that's what
a flea market is for. Something entice you to reach
into your wallet and pull out a couple of bills
and buy this. So by that nick knack, tell you what.
Let me take a phone call Doreen and Chell. Okay,
you've called, and uh, welcome to night Side.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Doreene, him Moregan, how are you?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm fine, Don and you.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
And your to your guest, mister Scale Scale. There was
a flea market in Vea. We had those cinema shows
were at one time. I know right now it's no
longer there because Amazon now is there.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Flea markets are kind of fading away, and whereas almost
most major communities had one within their environs, and now five, ten, fifteen,
twenty years later, they've dwindled. You can't really find them anymore.
(10:50):
I'm sure they still happened, but they're not as commonplace
as they once had been.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
No stal Go ahead, No, I'm sorry, I interrupted, that's
all right.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Morgan markets in New York that are still very popular.
The one is on the West side of Manhattan. Another
one is in Chelsea, which is in down in Lower Manhattan,
and I try to stop at it, both of them
every once in a while. I need a celebrity, believe
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it or not, at a flea market. Bernadette Peters is
the great singer. She was at a flea market not
too long ago and I said, well, well, what are.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You doing here?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And she said, well, my jeweler is here. You know,
a lot of jewelry is very popular at flea markets,
and so she wanted to meet her jeweler for something
that she was buying.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It's ironic you mentioned Chelsea because there's a community just
off of Boston all right next to the airport Chelsea,
mass So we've got to Chelsea and you just mentioned
and that's where Dorene is from, because I have her
name and her community on my computer stream. So you
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talked about Chelsea and Dorene is from Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And and Morgan, I want to tell you that you
have most unique voice yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
It's always a pleasure talking to you and your guests.
You have a lovely guests all the time important guests.
And I shall talk to you next time, Doreine.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I look forward to the next time we speak. Thank
you for making this moment happen. You enjoy your Thursday
all right? Now, you want to talk more about the
quotes that are in your second book Bill, anyone else come?
You mentioned Katherine Hepburn, any others come to mind off
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the top of your head.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Lily Comlin.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Uh, she was so great and she's still alive. Thank goodness,
Lilly said to me, I'm reading from my book right now.
I never dreamed of stardom growing up. But my neighbor's
in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Uh uh do we lose Bill? All right? Rob, Rob
endeavor to reconnect. I remind him just where he left off.
And people, if you want to call in six one, seven, five, four,
ten thirty or eight eight eight nineteen nineteen thirty, you
do that next hour. We've got Susan Brigman, who wrote
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a book about all the interesting stops along Route one
north of Boston. That Route one, and Bill you you
left off by saying Lily Tomlin's quote back from her
days in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, she said, my neighbors were a lot more interesting
than Rita Hey were with her Atlanta Turner. I was
just happy, she said, making the living, and these people
were gratifyed.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And she had had a great career, exploded upon the
public scene. Would laugh in many great movies in her career,
and her last series that I'm aware of was West Wing,
which was the President's Secretary, and that was a very
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memorable role for her. I hope she got a kick
out of playing that role of Debbie the President.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You're absolutely right, Jane Fonda. Of course, she's still with
us the I think.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Eighty five years old.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
And I loved her viewing her.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
But you know, the thing that really kind of took
me back, as you know, she's got.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
The label hanoid.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Jane, Yes, but she said, you know, I'm gonna go
to my grave with that quote that I said that
I was on a gun and northree of them, I'm
sitting there. So it's things like that that you think
about when you're interviewing people over the years.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And there are some people whose popularity explodes for a
core of years, but they outlive that particular pinpoint in
their career. And they're still here, as you mentioned with
both Lily Tomlin and Jane Fond. And Jane Fond, who's
looked upon as one of the most beautiful women in
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the world, Yeah, in her twenties, but now that she's
in her I'm getting I've seen late seventies, early eighties.
Is that accurate?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
She's eighty five, right, She's.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
No longer looked upon as being the most beautiful and
one of the most beautiful women in the world, but
she's scratched down shore. Interesting still, yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I interviewed Christopher Reeves many years ago, who played obviously Superman,
but you know, he talked about his one of jumping horses,
and I thought about that because I was watching the
horses at the Olympics and it's going on right now,
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and he said that he was well trained to the sport.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Only two years.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Later he became paralyzed from that awful, awful accident he
had a horse helping exhibition. So you think about things
that kind of flip out during interviews, and they come
back to haunt too.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And that type of accident is more frequent than we
hear about, but we hear about it when it's a celebrity,
the status of a major actor like Christopher Reeve was,
and being paralyzed from the fall from a horse happens
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a lot more than you read about. They still want
to do it. They want to, you know, jump those fences.
I know they're called oxs. Yes, I have, yes, I have.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Every today that one of the runners who won uh
was running with cold.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And collapsed, collapsed as soon as the finish line. They
had to put them in a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, And that's they.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Is sport. That is what sport is, pushing yourself to
the limit and then finding just another smidgen of energy
to go beyond the limit.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Real, I ask if you're talking about celebrities now, Erica
jon who was the flying Oh boy, you were ready
up on some things that surprised me that you will
remember that.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
II. So my job, and I take my job seriously.
And you know, speaking of my job, I'm right at
a break time. So we'll pick up with whatever carment
you're about to make about Erica on the other side
of the news. And anyone who wants to call in
six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two,
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nine ten thirty, you can speak with Bill Dial and
he is dropping names, well known names from our mind
and culture and history. You want to call in and
maybe proud build a mention somebody that he has chatted with.
(19:14):
That will put a smile on your face hearing this
story about their name being mentioned here on Nightside. My
name is Morgan, filling in for Dan Ray. Time and
temperature here at BZ nine thirty sixty five degrees.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
It's night Side Radio.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I'm Morgan filling in for Dan. Dan should be back
on Monday. Bill Deal is my guest. And Bill, you
get a call from your neck of the woods. Gary
in New Jersey has called in to speak with you
here on Nightside.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Gary, Good evening is our signal getting to the New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Uh, well there. I live in rural southern New Jersey
and I listened to you guys on a transistor AMFM
radio and I have to sit in a certain spot
and then I get it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
They still radios.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I have, Yes, I'm an analog man in a digital world,
the feeling. But what I did have was the question.
I grew up in Brooklyn and I listened to New
York radios. I'm in my seventies, Okay, and what I
want to know is what happened that they sort of
abandoned the medium. I remember as a young kid, I
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used to listen to Jean Shepherd every night on WOOR.
I remember, you know, in my house there were certain
times that the radio was on listening to certain personalities,
and it seems that they've kind of just abandoned it
most of the time. I mean, like your show, I
like to listen to you when you're on, you know,
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because it's not all politics, and it seems that's what
it's become, is, you know, just something about politics, whether
it's right or left, and there's a lot of the
entertainment value seems.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
To be done youtely right though. Color So you know,
you mentioned Gene Shepherd, one of the great radio storytellers.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I loved listening.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
To him r New York years ago, you know, but
there were others too. I used to listen to one
station you might remember it WMCA that a guy on
in the middle of the night, long John Neville with
his wife can and they had crazy stuff on, but
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it was so entertaining, and I think it's lost a
lot of that zip radio today.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I love your comment and analog man in the digital.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
World doing quite well. My head.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Gary, I will say this, I've been with BZ since
the mid nineties. I have never ever been pointed in
a direction by my bosses. I have had to adjust
at times I've been on the air. I was on
the air of the night that someone tried to assassinate
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Donald Trump, so the show I had planned, I tabled
that and I had to focus on that particular incident.
I was on the air when the Lewis and Maine
circumstance happened last fall, and Nicole Davis, who's doing news
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tonight here on BZ, she and I had to focus
on that because that was an evolving story. That story happened,
I do believe it was a Wednesday, and by Friday
there was the inevitable solution to that story. But the
key was I was filling in for Dan Ray that week,
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and the things that I had planned I had the
table and pushed to the side. But usually I do
things that are much more comfortable for people to listen.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Let me tell you you have a variety of guests.
I do about certain things that people might not even
think are interesting. I mean, you had that one guy
comes on about the records and everything.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
I'll tell you what. We don't have enough of that today,
and we don't have we don't have enough radio personalities
anymore that speak to you and not at you. And
I think we've I think a lot of the young
people today missed out on something that was really good.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Well, I'll say this and then Bill make his carment.
But the world of radio just a generic five letter word.
Radio is not what it was when I was a kid,
elementary school, junior high, high school, college, sixties seventies. It's
not what it was then. And I do the best
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I can to try and keep in touch with the
way it used to be. Bill, Do you have.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Any comment you're doing it now?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
We've got more election coming up. We're going to have
a lot of talking heads, and your listener from New
Jersey knows what I'm talking about. So we've just got
to try to get back to the conversations between us
and stop yelling at everybody.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Absolutely absolutely, well, listen, you guys, have a good night.
And it was a pleasure talking to you, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Thank you for the call. You keep listening, Okay, I.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Certainly do, all right, I got to be in one
spot of the house to get you guys.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Well, make sure you've got food and beverages in that
one spot for you.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Good night, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Garrety, good night to you too, and Billy, do you.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Have any other quotes that you want to share in
my audience? O, Well, before you went to the break,
we mentioned Erica joons Yes, We're a flying and I
asked her if she could live her life over again,
she said.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
I would not care at all what people thought of me.
I would be born knowing what I know. Now, that's
what you think of yourself, that's important. I would never
read my reviews, neither the good ones or the bad ones,
and care far less about being liked and being loved.
Do what I had to do in the world with
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the what they wish for approval.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
She once told me.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
She said she tried to rent a house up in
Connecticut and they wouldn't rent it to her because, as
they said, oh, you're those show business people say you're
gonna have big parties all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well, that's the front foot, not necessarily leading you to
where it needs to be. And your quote from Erica
reminded me a little bit of the Kipling quote from If,
and I'm paraphrasing about good things and bad things and
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treating those two impostors just the same. And that's that
last line is a direct quote from that poem. And
that's life. You can't get too smiley happy when compliments
come a way, and you can't get too frownie sad
when detractors get their points across. Do the best you
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can to keep an even keel.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yep, you're right, I agree. I totally agree with you.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
And as I said the earlier, the with the election
coming up, we're gonna hear so many talking heads. It's
going to be scary. I don't know what's gonna happen.
I don't think you do either, Morgan.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
No, I don't. But I will say this, come the
headlines the next morning on the major newspapers. The quotes
that we will read will be infuriating for most people.
Whether you are an elephant or a donkey, you're going
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to be infuriated at hearing what the debates yielded in
last night's telecast. I know there are three of them
that are planned. One is confirmed for September. I'm just
shuddering at the potentiality of what we're going to hear.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
It's a little scary, it's a lot scary.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, if you want to call in, I've got Bill
Deal here, and Bill, could you give the title of
your books one more time? And people, it's well worth
if you can scouting around.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
They're on Amazon. Fifty years of celebrity chatter. And the
other one is did they really say that? Great quotes
from famous people?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Sean Connery was one of them. When I was interviewing him,
I said, you know, I said, people in the magazine
once said you were the sexiest man alive, and he said, well,
there aren't many dead men, so alive.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
He was.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
He was one of my favorites because I was a
huge James Bond fan, and of the half dozen men
who played that role, he was still the best.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Doctor no Ye, your productions, everything or nothing. That's what
Eon stood for. According to Brooke, Brocoli and Saltzman, if
you want to call in six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty or eight eight, eight nine to nine, ten
thirty Herd Gary from New Jersey, just call in to
speak to my buddy Bill Deal. You can do the
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same thing. This is night Side. I am Morgan. Dan
Ray will be back on Monday, I promise you. But
I'm here for the rest of the night, and I'll
be here tomorrow night as well, and I'll be on
my show Saturday. A lot of you don't know I
do my own show on Saturdays here at ten pm.
That aside the time and temperature here on night Side
(29:46):
nine forty four temperature sixty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Now back to Dan Ray line from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
The bill deal is here And before I take my
next phone call, they'll have a question if If the
first answer is yes, do you have any children? And
if so, do they want to follow in your footsteps?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Well, that's always a question that people ask. I guess
in the acting world it's usually yes, they do get
involved in the business in acting. My daughter, who was
in her fifties, she lives in Needham, Massachusetts, next.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Town for me. I live in Newton, next town overs
need Him.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yep, do you know that area? But she had no
interest in what I do. She's a child psychologist. She
did enjoy sitting in on some interviews that I had done.
Neil Diamond was one. She always wanted to meet him,
and my wife said, so then you know he's your
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father's age. But that was a delightful interview and she
got to meet him and go see him at a show.
We have two grandchildren who are delightful. One of them, Teddy,
is studying Russian believing at the University of New Hampshire. Okay, yeah,
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And our granddaughter Lilah, she is seventeen looking at colleges now.
So that's what's going on up there. When my daughter's
husband is a lawyer in Boston.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
You mentioned Needham. On Tuesdays, I entertain at a place
called the Midway Restaurant and I do trivia as kind
of an interaction with the audience. Have been doing that
since the eighties and I'm there at this place for
the past seven or eight years on Tuesday nights from
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six to seven thirty. And there's a nice feel of
entertaining and need them. So tell you tell your daughter
next time you speak to her. She's of a mind too,
come and check me out on Washington Street and eat him.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Oh, I'd love to go up there, So next time
that we're up there, if you're there on Tuesday, So
I'd love to meet you in person.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh, Bill, I would treasure that, I truly would.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
You and I have such a great rapport on on analog.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Radio, and I would take it as an honor to
buy you the quick nosh and the beverage.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
That I interviewed, Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Tell us Jimmer. I remember so well. She said I
had two facelips that if I have another one that
will be a cesarean.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Lie Yep. I'd loved her jokes about Bang, her husband,
Michael and Adam b. Thank you for calling. Don't get nervous.
I saved some time for your call. H Hello, Michael.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
Hey Bill, I got to question so far and halfway
through I'll know the answer. I you the same Bill
Deal that had the cool hit record back and in
sixty nine or seventy Bill Dial on the Rondelles.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
The same Bill Deal.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah. There was a Bill Deal who was an author
who was quite famous. And there was a Bill Deal
who was the newspaper man and a disc jockey other Minneapolis.
And there is a David Deal who's a football player
I think for the New York Giants.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Okay, there was a Bill Dial in the seventies. It
was in the late sixties, early seventies, and they.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Had I think it was late sixties, they had hit song.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I can't think of it at the moment.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
They were and even.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Though I never saw pictures of him, they.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Just reminded me of a uh logan wouldn't know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Uh oh, you know what.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
There was?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Ah uh not a DJ, but a singer called Bill
Deal and the Ron Bells.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yes, right, I saw one of his records that are
speed markers, and I brought a hold there you go.
That was okay, out of the woodwork.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Did he spell Deal the way you spelled Deal?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
The I e h L.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
He spelled it the same way you sure?
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Okay, okay, that's what I was wondering if it was you.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
And so okay, Hey, thank you, Michael, thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
For the call.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Yeah, thank you, all right.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I like the fact that you are aware of a
football player, an author, and a singer who have had
your name first and last name.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Well, it never became famous in different ways, but there
you go. Right the weather up there are you getting
that storm?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Parts of the state are getting it. The temperatures have
gone into the sixties for the first time in weeks,
but we're supposed to be back into the eighties tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
A little chill in the air, my friend.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Makes you think of September, which is one month away,
two weeks away, yep. And how is it where you are.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Or just getting the vestiges a little of the.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Lustovers of the storm.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
So I think we're going to be all right here foul,
the suburbs has gotten a lot of trees down and
so forth. But yeah, this little storm really resonated all
over the Eastern seaboard.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Well, this is a time of year, obviously, everybody knows.
From June first to the thirtieth of November that's hurricane season.
And hurricanes necessarily don't have to be seventy five plus
miles an hour. The tropical storms, which is what you
get before, can grow into a hurricane fifty sixty miles
(36:31):
an hour can do enough damage knock down wires and
tree limbs. And this is why we live where we live.
It's better than living in Tornado Alley. And whether you're
in Minnesota or the Carolinas.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
They're trying to rebuild Mali. Now over that awful fires.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Oh yeah, a year ago.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
They're trying to get back to normal and rebuild that lovely,
beautiful area in Hawaiian Are.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
There any stories that are out that you wish you
could cover for any reason? It could be a story
to put a smile on your face, or a political story,
something that you've basically retired but you wish you was
still active.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Well, I always wanted to interview Doris Day, who was
one of my favorite celebrities. Yeah, and my wife and
I were driving up on the West Coast years ago
and I got in touch with her manager and he
said to me, he said, sorry, Bill, but we'd love
to have you. But she just doesn't do any interviews anymore.
(37:46):
It's a sad story because she was married to a
guy named Marty Melchner Belcher and there I've read an
old magazine recently and she said, Marty takes care of
all my financial problems. Turned out because he was a
gambler and he just about wrecked her career with the
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money problems when he died.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
And that happens so frequently. The person you most trust
turned out to be fingers deep into your financial pie.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, and I became friends with Angelian, who was a.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Very lovely actress, Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, and her husband was wonderful, wonderful guy. She married
a guy who was her bodyguard, and we became friends.
And suddenly I didn't hear from him. Turned out that
they were out driving one night in Los Angeles and
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he had a stroke and he smacked into a tree
and then he died not too long ago. So you know,
you see stories like this and you fall in love
with the actresses and their spouses. And I never really
got to know any actresses or anyone that close. But
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Angeli and I did through her husband with a lovely story,
and I missed him a lot.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Well, we've come to the end of our hour, bet. Bill.
You know I will have you back again. That's a
promise from my heart. And I thank you for be
all the time that you gave me tonight.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
I still go back to the old days of radio.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
One oh three. Here you go.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Radio for all the England. Bill, thank you for your time.
I look forward to our next time. You take my friend,
you take care. I love you too, all right, people,
Susan Bregman will be here after the news time and
temperature nine fifty eight sixty four degrees
It's night Side with Dan Ray on Wbzyston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome back to our number two of Nightside. Dan Ray
is off tonight, he'll be off tomorrow. Night should be
back on Monday. And when you call him on Monday,
ask him how his vacation went. I have a gentleman.
When you hear his name, it's going to take you
instantly to the world of news because for years and
(00:28):
years you heard him say, my name is blank blank
for ABC News. And I first got him to be
on the radio with me about a year and a
half ago, and I've had him on now. This will
be my third time with him, and I always enjoy
(00:49):
hearing him just retell stories of his career. Ladies and
gentlemen of Nightside, please welcome mister Bill dial Bill. Thank
you for saying yesterday coming back again.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Well, what a wonderful opening. That is just very beautiful.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Morgan.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
So, what do you think about news climate of twenty
twenty four?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Oh, you must be talking about the election coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm talking about everything that's happened over the past eight months,
and the election is definitely a part of it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, we can talk about that. Yeah. In a
little bit. I did want to talk about something if
you'd let me. You know, I've interviewed some of the
greatest celebrities in our era, Yes you have, I mean, yeah,
including Elizabeth Taylor, and I never interviewed her personally, but
(01:53):
once you know, she was very involved.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
In the age effort.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Why he was the nineteen nineties and so forth, and
they were doing a big thing at the Jabba Center
and I was there for that, so I never got
a chance to talk to her there, but I admired
her so much. And now on television, I think it's
(02:19):
on HBO and Max, they have a fabulous, fabulous program
called It's a documentary Elizabeth Taylor the Lost Tapes, YELP
with her own voice. There there was a man who
was interviewing her years ago, back I think in the
(02:42):
mid eighties, and so all of this is Elizabeth Taylor
talking and it's just beautiful to hear what she said
about her life with Richard Burton. You know, she was
buried how any times? Eight times?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
In twice Richard Burton.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yeah, and she stole h Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds.
So there's a lot to talk about. But that's a
terrific program. It's well done, and again it's it's now
out on HBO and HBO Max.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Well, when you think about her image and you compare
that to Debbie Reynolds, I can understand how Eddie Fisher
allowed his head to be turned. I won't go into
any greater detail than what I just said, but it's
a very believable turning of Eddie Fisher's head away from
(03:44):
Debbie and towards Elizabeth. Was I tactful enough and now
I said that.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
She of course really loved Mike Todd, who was an
imversario in the movie business. He died in a plane
crash and I think that really crushed her. She was
so unhappy about that. But anyway, that's Elizabeth Taylor, who
I just wanted to mention great films. Of course, uh
(04:18):
as we all know Cleopatra having a hot ten roof.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Uhs, I said, Betterfield eight.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
Yeah, I loved her in that.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yes, she she in the camera had a mutual love
affair for each other. And that goes back ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
We last talked Morgan, we've lost some some biggies in
the business. One that maybe your audience wasn't familiar with,
but Fischer was doctor Ruth Westtheimer Doctor Ruth.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
She did a.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Program on radio and television called Sexually Speaking, and she really,
you know, let it all hang out, don't know doubt
about it. She was quite something, only four foot seven.
She was a Holocaust survivor, yes, and so I really
enjoyed interviewing her a couple of times. One other person
(05:26):
that I would like to mention because I'm on WBZ,
Dick Summer died not too long ago.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
He was a friend of the show, a friend of mine.
I had him on at least a half a dozen
times over the years. And boy with somebody tailor maid
to do radio, to communicate with this medium and do
it so smoothly, Dick Summer.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
He had a beautiful delivery, beautiful voice.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
After WBZ, he worked at several other stations, including WNW
in New York, where I got to know him quite well.
But I really miss people like that on the air.
And he was special, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I really. Right now, I closed my eyes and he
did a TV commercial for a lawyer's office, a Bender
and Pender, and I can hear his liner right now,
the way he would just say bender and Bender. I
just it was he had a fingerprint voice, as you do.
(06:36):
You have a fingerprint voice.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Well, I've never heard that term before, because that's very
nice of you to say that, after so many years
in the business, a fingerprint voice. Yes, I'll have to
tell my wife that.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
All right, you have my permission to use that. Let
me take my first break of the hour. You've you've
already got a phone call online, and I'll mention the
phone numbers if anyone else wants to call in and
speak with this gentleman. You've heard his liners for years
here on BZ and depending on if you're not from Boston,
(07:15):
because we hit thirty eight states, I'm sure you've heard
Bill deal ABC News six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
You want to call in and join our conversation four
roughly the next forty five minutes. Please do time and
temperature here on Night Side. Heard on BZ nine point
(07:37):
fifteen sixty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Life Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Dan should be back on Monday. He's been on vacation.
I've been very fortunate to get as many of the
Dan Ray eight to midnight shifts that I have gotten.
I had my first a week ago on Thursday. I
was here Monday, I was here last night. Obviously, I'm
here tonight, and i'll be here tomorrow night. And right
(08:10):
now I'm joined by a news legend, mister Bill Dial
ABC News, among other things. And Bill, your book is
still available, is it not.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
There's a couple of books that are out. One is
called Celebrity Chatter fifty years of my many interviews, So
the more recent one, did they really say that? The
great quotes from famous people like Catherine Hepburn for instance,
of course she said, I've had regrets. Unless you're an
(08:45):
absolute moron, you have regrets. You know, life's tragic at times.
I've had my share. Well, it's that kind of a book.
It was a fun book to write, all right. And
by the way, I'm on something. I hope maybe you're
listeners do this now. And then I love flea markets.
(09:08):
My wife anger angry at me, okay, because she says,
don't bring anything more home, But I love going to
flea markets. How about you?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
There used to be one on the Rainndom Taunton Line,
which is about maybe twenty five miles a bit south
of Boston and was called the Raindom Flea. And I
used to go there and pick and choose, and there
were nickknacks that really I didn't need, but I would
(09:42):
buy them and bring them home anyway, because that's what
a flea market is for. Something entice you to reach
into your wallet and pull out a couple of bills
and buy this. So by that nick knack, tell you what.
Let me take a phone call Doreen and Chell. Okay,
you've called, and uh, welcome to night Side.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Doreene, him Moregan, how are you?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I'm fine, Don and you.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
And your to your guest, mister Scale Scale. There was
a flea market in Vea. We had those cinema shows
were at one time. I know right now it's no
longer there because Amazon now is there.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Flea markets are kind of fading away, and whereas almost
most major communities had one within their environs, and now five, ten, fifteen,
twenty years later, they've dwindled. You can't really find them anymore.
(10:50):
I'm sure they still happened, but they're not as commonplace
as they once had been.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
No stal Go ahead, No, I'm sorry, I interrupted, that's
all right.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Morgan markets in New York that are still very popular.
The one is on the West side of Manhattan. Another
one is in Chelsea, which is in down in Lower Manhattan,
and I try to stop at it, both of them
every once in a while. I need a celebrity, believe
(11:30):
it or not, at a flea market. Bernadette Peters is
the great singer. She was at a flea market not
too long ago and I said, well, well, what are.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
You doing here?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And she said, well, my jeweler is here. You know,
a lot of jewelry is very popular at flea markets,
and so she wanted to meet her jeweler for something
that she was buying.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
It's ironic you mentioned Chelsea because there's a community just
off of Boston all right next to the airport Chelsea,
mass So we've got to Chelsea and you just mentioned
and that's where Dorene is from, because I have her
name and her community on my computer stream. So you
(12:14):
talked about Chelsea and Dorene is from Chelsea.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And and Morgan, I want to tell you that you
have most unique voice yourself.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
It's always a pleasure talking to you and your guests.
You have a lovely guests all the time important guests.
And I shall talk to you next time, Doreine.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
I look forward to the next time we speak. Thank
you for making this moment happen. You enjoy your Thursday
all right? Now, you want to talk more about the
quotes that are in your second book Bill, anyone else come?
You mentioned Katherine Hepburn, any others come to mind off
(13:04):
the top of your head.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Lily Comlin.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Uh, she was so great and she's still alive. Thank goodness,
Lilly said to me, I'm reading from my book right now.
I never dreamed of stardom growing up. But my neighbor's
in Detroit.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Uh uh do we lose Bill? All right? Rob, Rob
endeavor to reconnect. I remind him just where he left off.
And people, if you want to call in six one, seven, five, four,
ten thirty or eight eight eight nineteen nineteen thirty, you
do that next hour. We've got Susan Brigman, who wrote
(13:51):
a book about all the interesting stops along Route one
north of Boston. That Route one, and Bill you you
left off by saying Lily Tomlin's quote back from her
days in Detroit.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Yeah, she said, my neighbors were a lot more interesting
than Rita Hey were with her Atlanta Turner. I was
just happy, she said, making the living, and these people
were gratifyed.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
And she had had a great career, exploded upon the
public scene. Would laugh in many great movies in her career,
and her last series that I'm aware of was West Wing,
which was the President's Secretary, and that was a very
(14:42):
memorable role for her. I hope she got a kick
out of playing that role of Debbie the President.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
You're absolutely right, Jane Fonda. Of course, she's still with
us the I think.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Eighty five years old.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
And I loved her viewing her.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
But you know, the thing that really kind of took
me back, as you know, she's got.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
The label hanoid.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Jane, Yes, but she said, you know, I'm gonna go
to my grave with that quote that I said that
I was on a gun and northree of them, I'm
sitting there. So it's things like that that you think
about when you're interviewing people over the years.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
And there are some people whose popularity explodes for a
core of years, but they outlive that particular pinpoint in
their career. And they're still here, as you mentioned with
both Lily Tomlin and Jane Fond. And Jane Fond, who's
looked upon as one of the most beautiful women in
(15:52):
the world, Yeah, in her twenties, but now that she's
in her I'm getting I've seen late seventies, early eighties.
Is that accurate?
Speaker 4 (16:04):
She's eighty five, right, She's.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
No longer looked upon as being the most beautiful and
one of the most beautiful women in the world, but
she's scratched down shore. Interesting still, yep, yep.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
I interviewed Christopher Reeves many years ago, who played obviously Superman,
but you know, he talked about his one of jumping horses,
and I thought about that because I was watching the
horses at the Olympics and it's going on right now,
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and he said that he was well trained to the sport.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Only two years.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Later he became paralyzed from that awful, awful accident he
had a horse helping exhibition. So you think about things
that kind of flip out during interviews, and they come
back to haunt too.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
And that type of accident is more frequent than we
hear about, but we hear about it when it's a celebrity,
the status of a major actor like Christopher Reeve was,
and being paralyzed from the fall from a horse happens
(17:22):
a lot more than you read about. They still want
to do it. They want to, you know, jump those fences.
I know they're called oxs. Yes, I have, yes, I have.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Every today that one of the runners who won uh
was running with cold.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
And collapsed, collapsed as soon as the finish line. They
had to put them in a wheelchair.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah, And that's they.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Is sport. That is what sport is, pushing yourself to
the limit and then finding just another smidgen of energy
to go beyond the limit.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Real, I ask if you're talking about celebrities now, Erica
jon who was the flying Oh boy, you were ready
up on some things that surprised me that you will
remember that.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
II. So my job, and I take my job seriously.
And you know, speaking of my job, I'm right at
a break time. So we'll pick up with whatever carment
you're about to make about Erica on the other side
of the news. And anyone who wants to call in
six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, two,
(18:53):
nine ten thirty, you can speak with Bill Dial and
he is dropping names, well known names from our mind
and culture and history. You want to call in and
maybe proud build a mention somebody that he has chatted with.
(19:14):
That will put a smile on your face hearing this
story about their name being mentioned here on Nightside. My
name is Morgan, filling in for Dan Ray. Time and
temperature here at BZ nine thirty sixty five degrees.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
It's night Side Radio.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
I'm Morgan filling in for Dan. Dan should be back
on Monday. Bill Deal is my guest. And Bill, you
get a call from your neck of the woods. Gary
in New Jersey has called in to speak with you
here on Nightside.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Gary, Good evening is our signal getting to the New Jersey.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Uh, well there. I live in rural southern New Jersey
and I listened to you guys on a transistor AMFM
radio and I have to sit in a certain spot
and then I get it.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
They still radios.
Speaker 6 (20:15):
I have, Yes, I'm an analog man in a digital world,
the feeling. But what I did have was the question.
I grew up in Brooklyn and I listened to New
York radios. I'm in my seventies, Okay, and what I
want to know is what happened that they sort of
abandoned the medium. I remember as a young kid, I
(20:39):
used to listen to Jean Shepherd every night on WOOR.
I remember, you know, in my house there were certain
times that the radio was on listening to certain personalities,
and it seems that they've kind of just abandoned it
most of the time. I mean, like your show, I
like to listen to you when you're on, you know,
(20:59):
because it's not all politics, and it seems that's what
it's become, is, you know, just something about politics, whether
it's right or left, and there's a lot of the
entertainment value seems.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
To be done youtely right though. Color So you know,
you mentioned Gene Shepherd, one of the great radio storytellers.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I loved listening.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
To him r New York years ago, you know, but
there were others too. I used to listen to one
station you might remember it WMCA that a guy on
in the middle of the night, long John Neville with
his wife can and they had crazy stuff on, but
(21:45):
it was so entertaining, and I think it's lost a
lot of that zip radio today.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I love your comment and analog man in the digital.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
World doing quite well. My head.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Gary, I will say this, I've been with BZ since
the mid nineties. I have never ever been pointed in
a direction by my bosses. I have had to adjust
at times I've been on the air. I was on
the air of the night that someone tried to assassinate
(22:25):
Donald Trump, so the show I had planned, I tabled
that and I had to focus on that particular incident.
I was on the air when the Lewis and Maine
circumstance happened last fall, and Nicole Davis, who's doing news
(22:46):
tonight here on BZ, she and I had to focus
on that because that was an evolving story. That story happened,
I do believe it was a Wednesday, and by Friday
there was the inevitable solution to that story. But the
key was I was filling in for Dan Ray that week,
(23:09):
and the things that I had planned I had the
table and pushed to the side. But usually I do
things that are much more comfortable for people to listen.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Let me tell you you have a variety of guests.
I do about certain things that people might not even
think are interesting. I mean, you had that one guy
comes on about the records and everything.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
I'll tell you what. We don't have enough of that today,
and we don't have we don't have enough radio personalities
anymore that speak to you and not at you. And
I think we've I think a lot of the young
people today missed out on something that was really good.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Well, I'll say this and then Bill make his carment.
But the world of radio just a generic five letter word.
Radio is not what it was when I was a kid,
elementary school, junior high, high school, college, sixties seventies. It's
not what it was then. And I do the best
(24:19):
I can to try and keep in touch with the
way it used to be. Bill, Do you have.
Speaker 5 (24:24):
Any comment you're doing it now?
Speaker 3 (24:26):
We've got more election coming up. We're going to have
a lot of talking heads, and your listener from New
Jersey knows what I'm talking about. So we've just got
to try to get back to the conversations between us
and stop yelling at everybody.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Absolutely absolutely, well, listen, you guys, have a good night.
And it was a pleasure talking to you, Jerry.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Thank you for the call. You keep listening, Okay, I.
Speaker 6 (24:55):
Certainly do, all right, I got to be in one
spot of the house to get you guys.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Well, make sure you've got food and beverages in that
one spot for you.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Good night, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Garrety, good night to you too, and Billy, do you.
Speaker 7 (25:12):
Have any other quotes that you want to share in
my audience? O, Well, before you went to the break,
we mentioned Erica joons Yes, We're a flying and I
asked her if she could live her life over again,
she said.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
I would not care at all what people thought of me.
I would be born knowing what I know. Now, that's
what you think of yourself, that's important. I would never
read my reviews, neither the good ones or the bad ones,
and care far less about being liked and being loved.
Do what I had to do in the world with
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the what they wish for approval.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
She once told me.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
She said she tried to rent a house up in
Connecticut and they wouldn't rent it to her because, as
they said, oh, you're those show business people say you're
gonna have big parties all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Well, that's the front foot, not necessarily leading you to
where it needs to be. And your quote from Erica
reminded me a little bit of the Kipling quote from If,
and I'm paraphrasing about good things and bad things and
(26:28):
treating those two impostors just the same. And that's that
last line is a direct quote from that poem. And
that's life. You can't get too smiley happy when compliments
come a way, and you can't get too frownie sad
when detractors get their points across. Do the best you
(26:51):
can to keep an even keel.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Yep, you're right, I agree. I totally agree with you.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
And as I said the earlier, the with the election
coming up, we're gonna hear so many talking heads. It's
going to be scary. I don't know what's gonna happen.
I don't think you do either, Morgan.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
No, I don't. But I will say this, come the
headlines the next morning on the major newspapers. The quotes
that we will read will be infuriating for most people.
Whether you are an elephant or a donkey, you're going
(27:32):
to be infuriated at hearing what the debates yielded in
last night's telecast. I know there are three of them
that are planned. One is confirmed for September. I'm just
shuddering at the potentiality of what we're going to hear.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
It's a little scary, it's a lot scary.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Well, if you want to call in, I've got Bill
Deal here, and Bill, could you give the title of
your books one more time? And people, it's well worth
if you can scouting around.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
They're on Amazon. Fifty years of celebrity chatter. And the
other one is did they really say that? Great quotes
from famous people?
Speaker 4 (28:26):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Sean Connery was one of them. When I was interviewing him,
I said, you know, I said, people in the magazine
once said you were the sexiest man alive, and he said, well,
there aren't many dead men, so alive.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
He was.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
He was one of my favorites because I was a
huge James Bond fan, and of the half dozen men
who played that role, he was still the best.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Doctor no Ye, your productions, everything or nothing. That's what
Eon stood for. According to Brooke, Brocoli and Saltzman, if
you want to call in six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty or eight eight, eight nine to nine, ten
thirty Herd Gary from New Jersey, just call in to
speak to my buddy Bill Deal. You can do the
(29:21):
same thing. This is night Side. I am Morgan. Dan
Ray will be back on Monday, I promise you. But
I'm here for the rest of the night, and I'll
be here tomorrow night as well, and I'll be on
my show Saturday. A lot of you don't know I
do my own show on Saturdays here at ten pm.
That aside the time and temperature here on night Side
(29:46):
nine forty four temperature sixty five degrees.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Now back to Dan Ray line from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
The bill deal is here And before I take my
next phone call, they'll have a question if If the
first answer is yes, do you have any children? And
if so, do they want to follow in your footsteps?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Well, that's always a question that people ask. I guess
in the acting world it's usually yes, they do get
involved in the business in acting. My daughter, who was
in her fifties, she lives in Needham, Massachusetts, next.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Town for me. I live in Newton, next town overs
need Him.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yep, do you know that area? But she had no
interest in what I do. She's a child psychologist. She
did enjoy sitting in on some interviews that I had done.
Neil Diamond was one. She always wanted to meet him,
and my wife said, so then you know he's your
(31:02):
father's age. But that was a delightful interview and she
got to meet him and go see him at a show.
We have two grandchildren who are delightful. One of them, Teddy,
is studying Russian believing at the University of New Hampshire. Okay, yeah,
(31:23):
And our granddaughter Lilah, she is seventeen looking at colleges now.
So that's what's going on up there. When my daughter's
husband is a lawyer in Boston.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
You mentioned Needham. On Tuesdays, I entertain at a place
called the Midway Restaurant and I do trivia as kind
of an interaction with the audience. Have been doing that
since the eighties and I'm there at this place for
the past seven or eight years on Tuesday nights from
(31:57):
six to seven thirty. And there's a nice feel of
entertaining and need them. So tell you tell your daughter
next time you speak to her. She's of a mind too,
come and check me out on Washington Street and eat him.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Oh, I'd love to go up there, So next time
that we're up there, if you're there on Tuesday, So
I'd love to meet you in person.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh, Bill, I would treasure that, I truly would.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
You and I have such a great rapport on on analog.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Radio, and I would take it as an honor to
buy you the quick nosh and the beverage.
Speaker 3 (32:37):
Oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
That I interviewed, Yes.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Tell us Jimmer. I remember so well. She said I
had two facelips that if I have another one that
will be a cesarean.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Lie Yep. I'd loved her jokes about Bang, her husband,
Michael and Adam b. Thank you for calling. Don't get nervous.
I saved some time for your call. H Hello, Michael.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
Hey Bill, I got to question so far and halfway
through I'll know the answer. I you the same Bill
Deal that had the cool hit record back and in
sixty nine or seventy Bill Dial on the Rondelles.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
The same Bill Deal.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah. There was a Bill Deal who was an author
who was quite famous. And there was a Bill Deal
who was the newspaper man and a disc jockey other Minneapolis.
And there is a David Deal who's a football player
I think for the New York Giants.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Okay, there was a Bill Dial in the seventies. It
was in the late sixties, early seventies, and they.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Had I think it was late sixties, they had hit song.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
I can't think of it at the moment.
Speaker 8 (34:02):
They were and even.
Speaker 5 (34:04):
Though I never saw pictures of him, they.
Speaker 8 (34:06):
Just reminded me of a uh logan wouldn't know what
I mean.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Uh oh, you know what.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
There was?
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Ah uh not a DJ, but a singer called Bill
Deal and the Ron Bells.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yes, right, I saw one of his records that are
speed markers, and I brought a hold there you go.
That was okay, out of the woodwork.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Did he spell Deal the way you spelled Deal?
Speaker 3 (34:42):
The I e h L.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
He spelled it the same way you sure?
Speaker 8 (34:47):
Okay, okay, that's what I was wondering if it was you.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
And so okay, Hey, thank you, Michael, thank you.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
For the call.
Speaker 8 (34:58):
Yeah, thank you, all right.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I like the fact that you are aware of a
football player, an author, and a singer who have had
your name first and last name.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Well, it never became famous in different ways, but there
you go. Right the weather up there are you getting
that storm?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Parts of the state are getting it. The temperatures have
gone into the sixties for the first time in weeks,
but we're supposed to be back into the eighties tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
A little chill in the air, my friend.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Makes you think of September, which is one month away,
two weeks away, yep. And how is it where you are.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Or just getting the vestiges a little of the.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
Lustovers of the storm.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
So I think we're going to be all right here foul,
the suburbs has gotten a lot of trees down and
so forth. But yeah, this little storm really resonated all
over the Eastern seaboard.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Well, this is a time of year, obviously, everybody knows.
From June first to the thirtieth of November that's hurricane season.
And hurricanes necessarily don't have to be seventy five plus
miles an hour. The tropical storms, which is what you
get before, can grow into a hurricane fifty sixty miles
(36:31):
an hour can do enough damage knock down wires and
tree limbs. And this is why we live where we live.
It's better than living in Tornado Alley. And whether you're
in Minnesota or the Carolinas.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
They're trying to rebuild Mali. Now over that awful fires.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Oh yeah, a year ago.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
They're trying to get back to normal and rebuild that lovely,
beautiful area in Hawaiian Are.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
There any stories that are out that you wish you
could cover for any reason? It could be a story
to put a smile on your face, or a political story,
something that you've basically retired but you wish you was
still active.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Well, I always wanted to interview Doris Day, who was
one of my favorite celebrities. Yeah, and my wife and
I were driving up on the West Coast years ago
and I got in touch with her manager and he
said to me, he said, sorry, Bill, but we'd love
to have you. But she just doesn't do any interviews anymore.
(37:46):
It's a sad story because she was married to a
guy named Marty Melchner Belcher and there I've read an
old magazine recently and she said, Marty takes care of
all my financial problems. Turned out because he was a
gambler and he just about wrecked her career with the
(38:10):
money problems when he died.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
And that happens so frequently. The person you most trust
turned out to be fingers deep into your financial pie.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Yeah, and I became friends with Angelian, who was a.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Very lovely actress, Jennifer.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
Yeah, and her husband was wonderful, wonderful guy. She married
a guy who was her bodyguard, and we became friends.
And suddenly I didn't hear from him. Turned out that
they were out driving one night in Los Angeles and
(38:59):
he had a stroke and he smacked into a tree
and then he died not too long ago. So you know,
you see stories like this and you fall in love
with the actresses and their spouses. And I never really
got to know any actresses or anyone that close. But
(39:20):
Angeli and I did through her husband with a lovely story,
and I missed him a lot.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Well, we've come to the end of our hour, bet. Bill.
You know I will have you back again. That's a
promise from my heart. And I thank you for be
all the time that you gave me tonight.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
I still go back to the old days of radio.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
One oh three. Here you go.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Radio for all the England. Bill, thank you for your time.
I look forward to our next time. You take my friend,
you take care. I love you too, all right, people,
Susan Bregman will be here after the news time and
temperature nine fifty eight sixty four degrees
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