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4 unusual facts about Ed McMahon


Beth Hart

In 1993, Hart appeared on Ed McMahon's Star Search several times, ultimately winning the Female Vocalist competition for that season.

Pitch People

It was produced in 1999 and includes interviews with many of the pitch industry's greatest salesmen, including Arnold Morris, Sandy Mason, Lester Morris, Wally Nash and Ed McMahon as well as a look at the Popeil family.

Ralph Schoenstein

Schoenstein was also the ghostwriter of a number of books for celebrities like Joan Rivers, Ed McMahon, and Bill Cosby (he was the uncredited co-author of Cosby's Fatherhood and Time Flies).

Sweepstakes

The American Family Publishers sweepstakes traditionally used paid advertisements during NBC's The Tonight Show to announce its grand prize winners (for many years, its celebrity spokesman was Ed McMahon).


Jersey's Talking

Guests included U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, Mary Higgins Clark, Uncle Floyd, Gov. Florio, John Shelby Spong, Gail Sheehy, Theodore Edgar McCarrick, Ed Koch, Steve Allen, Peter Maas, Charles Cummings, John Cunningham, Clement Price, Ed McMahon, Sen. Robert Torricelli, David Toma and Dave Frieder New York's Bridge Photographer.

Mercedes LeAnza

The first film Mercedes LeAnza Produced & Acted with Stella Bella Productions Jelly (Film), a John Hughes (filmmaker) themed romantic comedy starring Sarah Louise Wilson, John Boyd (actor), Natasha Lyonne, Ed McMahon, Reginald VelJohnson, Steve Talley, Hayley Marie Norman and is set to be released in the US 2010-11.


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Urban Land

Past and current contributors have included such prominent individuals as former Bogotá mayor Enrique Peñalosa; urban scholar Richard Florida; economist and Brookings Institution fellow Anthony Downs; former director of land use planning for The Conservation Fund Ed McMahon; former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Henry Cisneros; and Brookings Institution fellow Christopher B. Leinberger.