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MTR PROMOTES COLETTE INTO WEEKENDS
Tony Shields on TV ■ Collectables Show (12.05am Fridays, 3AW) panel member Tony Shields was seen on ABC-TV’s In Gordon Street Tonight with Adam Hills last week. Tony and his brother run Shields Stamps and Coins in Heidelberg. Tony brought a rare hundred trillon dollar note from Zimbabwe to show on the national weekly TV show.
● Tony Shields
Visitors to Melbourne ■ Overnighters host Keith McGowan’s cousin, Margaret Gow, and her husband Bruce, were in Melbourne for the Grand Prix weekend. Bruce is a familiar sight on the Echuca port, and is to retire later this week. Whilst in Melbourne, the McGowans and Gows joined with Bob and Cheryle Johnson at the favourite Thai restaurant in Gardenvale.
Laurie Allen tribute ■ A tribute website to the late Australian pop star Laurie Allen has been established at www.laurie allen.net - it includes free music downloads, and links to You Tube videos including Bobby and Laurie TV clips.
It’s a knockout!
● Colette Mann ■ Make no mistake, Colette Mann is one very intelligent operator ... and makes for a challenging radio host. Colette has been standing in for Glenn Ridge on weekends (MTR), and provides an interesting alternative on Saturday and Sunday afternoons when most other stations have the football. Mann takes no prisoners, and has a supersharp intellect. Veritas wonders if she is sometime TOO acerbic for Melbourne audiences.
Kick off ■ Former 3AW bound-
● 3AW producer Ken Francis (centre) with Rockin’ Ronnie Gonzo and Brian Mannix at the Chelsea Heights Hotel. ary rider Scott Cummings, and Leigh Colbert, are hosting the First Choice Liquor Footy Shout, at 5pm Fridays on Classic Rock 91.5. Their first program was on Friday. Cummings played for Essendon, West Coast Eagles and Collingwood. Colbert was a Geelong captain, and later played with North Melbourne. The dedicated footy show goes to air, 5pm6pm, Fridays.
New man at MTR
More girls on radio
● MTR overnight
Melbourne Radio Flashbacks
● Keith McGowan, Marc Pante and Angela McGowan after Marc scored a KO in his second professional fight.
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■ MTR 1377’s website says its overnight presenter is “to be confirmed”, following Sydney presenter Jim Ball’s departure. Of recent times, the show has been presented by Michael McLaren, who has been the producer of the Sydney night and overnight programs. His university studies have included ancient history, and is a long-time supporter of the NSW rugby league team, the Balmain Tigers. Michael is presenting the program between Midnight - 3.30am.
● Gold 104.3’s Craig Huggins (then of 3XY) with the late Peter Brock. It was 1982, and 3XY was one of the Brock ‘.05’ sponsors.
● Lindy Burns ■ Lindy Burns, 774 ABC ‘Drive’ presenter, was featured in an Age Green Guide feature last Thursday. Journalist Michael Lallo reported on the few women working on Melbourne radio. Observer Editor Ash Long, speaking with Denis Scanlan on Pulse 94.7, last Wednesday, predicted that there will be more women in prime shifts on Melbourne radio over the coming 12 months.
Two shows
■ Billy Pinnell and Alan Pearsall are back with their after-footy Blasts From The Past program, mainly from 11pm on Friday and Saturday nights. Not only did the music make for a good show ... but so did the chatter when Alan Pearsall left the microphones partly open as the tracks played!
● Billy Pinnell
Who’s that?
■ One of the puzzles about watching re-runs of the original Prisoner TV episodes on cable TV channel, 111 Hits, was putting a name to the voice heard in the radio news bulletins that were part of the script back in 1979. A look at the end-ofprogram credits reveals that it was Adam Joseph, who manned the 3AW weekend overnight programs in the late 1990s.
● Adam Joseph Melbourne
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■ Entertainer Rolf Harris was born in Perth in 1930 (81). American actor John Astin, who played Gomez in The Addams Family, is 81. Actor Warren Beatty is 74 (1937). Actor Alan Fletcher (Dr Karl Kennedy in Neighbours) is 54 (1957).
■ April Fools Day. Actress-singer Debbie Reynolds is 79 (1932). Actress Ali McGraw is 73 (1938). Singer Susan Boyle was born in Scotland in 1961 (50). Australian country signer Gina Jeffreys (Hillenberg) was born in 1968 (43).
■ American actor Buddy Ebsen was born in 1980. The Beverly Hillbillies star died aged 95 in 2003. British actor Sir Alec Guinness was born in London in 1914. He died aged 86 in 2000. Jack Webb, director and actor of Dragnet fame, was born in 1920 in California. He died aged 62 in 1982.
■ Doris day (Doris von Koppelhoff) was born in 1924 (87). Actor Marlon Brando was born in 1924. He died aged 80 in 2004. Singer Wayne Newton is 69 (1942). US actor Alec Baldwin was born in New York in 1958 (53).
■ US actor Anthony Perkins was born in New York City in 1932. She died aged 60 in 1992. Football identity Rodney Eade was born in Tasmania in 1958 (53). Actor Hugo Weaving was born in Nigeria in 1960 (51). Robert Downey Jnr was born in New York in 1965 (46).
■ Actor Spencer Tracy was born in 1900. He died aged 67 in 1967. Actress Bette Davis was born in 1908. She died aged 81 in 1989. Actor Gregory Peck was born in 1916. He died aged 87 in 2003. British actor Nigel Hawthorne was born in 1929. Died in 2001.
■ American actress Shirley Jones is 77 (1934). She starred in The Partridge Family. US musician Herb Alpert is 76 (1935). He co-founded A & M Records. Actor Richard Chamberlain is 76 (1935). US actress Rhea Perlman (Cheers) is 65 (1946).
Thanks to GREG NEWMAN of the Birthday Bulletin for assistance with birthday and anniversary dates. Find out more at www.birthdaybulletin.com.au