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4 unusual facts about anchorman


Anchorman: Music from the Motion Picture

"The Channel 4 News Team" is Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, and David Koechner (in character as Ron Burgundy, Brian Fantana, Brick Tamland, and Champ Kind, respectively), performing a cover of "Afternoon Delight", originally performed by Starland Vocal Band.

Groovy Situation

A portion of Chandler's version of the song was used in the 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and appears on the film's soundtrack.

James Westfall

The name James Westfall also appears in the movie Anchorman when Paul Rudd's character mentions he nicknames his left testicle James Westfall and his right Dr. Kenneth Noisewater.

Leslee Feldman

Leslee Feldman is the Head of Casting at Dreamworks, the studio which produced such films as Shrek, The Prince of Egypt, Road to Perdition and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, among others.


A Cinderella Story

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $13,623,350 in 2,625 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #4 at the box office, behind I, Robot, Spider-Man 2 and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, was the best debut for an Teen film that week.

Adam McKay

Shortly after leaving SNL, McKay teamed up with comedian Will Ferrell to write the comedy films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers and The Other Guys.

Allan Segal

Between 1990 and 1992 Segal acted as the series editor of the international, multi-million dollar documentray series "Dinosaur", presented by legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite.

Atoy Co

Later that same year, Co was part of the twelve (12) initial inductees to the PBA Hall of Fame alongside fellow Crispa players Bogs Adornado and Philip Cezar, and Toyota stalwarts Jaworski, Francis Arnaiz and Fernandez together with former PBA Commissioners Leo Prieto, Emerson Coseteng and Atty. Rudy Salud as well as legendary Crispa coach and team manager, respectively, Dalupan and Danny Floro, and the late anchorman Joe Cantada.

Brit Hume

On December 16, 2008, Hume appeared as a guest on the television program The O'Reilly Factor and announced his retirement from the anchorman position.

Calendar of Regrets

2) former CBS anchorman Dan Rather's mysterious mugging on Park Avenue as he strolled home alone one evening;

Cronkite

Walter Cronkite (1916-2009), American broadcast journalist and anchorman

Evelio Otero

Evelio Otero, Sr. - Was the first television anchorman in Puerto Rico and one of the first in Latin America.

Felger

Michael Felger (born 1969), a television sports reporter and anchorman for Comcast SportsNet New England

Haibo Huang

Haibo Huang is the Deputy Chief Editor of Phoenix Chinese Channel/Anchorman, Phoenix Satellite Television Hong Kong.

Harris–Stowe State University

Julius Hunter, retired television anchorman, former St. Louis University vice-president, author

Hope Hines

Next he moved on to a job in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was the television play-by-play announcer for the Baltimore Colts, and anchorman for WMAR-TV.

Ira Mellman

Mellman keeps a picture of former WTOP reporter and anchorman Ira Mellman on the front of his door.

Jung Il-woo

Son of a former television news anchorman, Jung Il-woo studied Broadcasting at the Seoul Institute of the Arts, later transferring to the Theater & Film department of Hanyang University.

LaMar Baker

The other was the fact that Marilyn Lloyd was the widow of Mort Lloyd, an anchorman at CBS affiliate WDEF-TV, who had won the Democratic nomination to face Baker and who had then been killed in a light-airplane accident on his way to celebrate his primary victory; the Democratic Party then chose his wife to succeed him as the congressional nominee.

Linda Thorson

She was married to the American news anchorman and producer Bill Boggs with whom she has a son; they divorced.

My Life My Love: Boku no Yume: Watashi no Negai

A news anchorman and his assistant helps to cover important headlines including LSD becoming illegal and the release of Steven Spielberg's 1982 movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

NuvoTV

Video entries were judged by the public and a panel, including CNN anchorman Rick Sanchez, actress Rosario Dawson, Craiglist's Craig Newmark, former Texas congressman Henry Bonilla, YouTube's Steve Grove and Danny Vargas, chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly.

Peggy Noonan

Noonan worked as the daily CBS Radio commentary writer for anchorman Dan Rather at CBS News, whom she once called "the best boss I ever had."

Peter Deeley

From 1985-1990 he was the breakfast anchorman at LBC alongside Douglas Cameron.

Sikandar

Sikander Baloch, Pakistani journalist and television news anchorman

Steve Pickett

He was a news reporter at NBC affiliate television station KGW serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, and now is reporter-anchorman at CBS owned-and-operated television station KTVT licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth designated market area.

Strictly Speaking

Strictly Speaking, by journalist and TV anchorman Edwin Newman (ISBN 0-446-80106-2), sub-titled "Will America be the death of English ?", was published in 1974.

The Original Pancake House

On one occasion he conducted an interview in the restaurant with famous anchorman Walter Jacobson.

Walter F. Parkes

Other films produced during their tenure include: Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous, Robert Zemeckis' What Lies Beneath, Adam McKay's Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Michael Mann's Collateral, and Steven Spielberg's Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning drama Saving Private Ryan, which was the top-grossing film domestically of 1998.

Wayne Laryea

Laryea is no longer acting but went on to become anchorman of regional news programme Channel Report between 1989 and 1991.


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