Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer's caption reads, "Johnny Cash was dead and the media was all over it. On-air talent jostled for position around Cash's star on Hollywood Boulevard doing live feeds, walk-and-talks, intros and outros. Tony Potts, weekend anchor from Access Hollywood, squinted at the little screen on his blackberry. The studio was feeding him an outro. Potts rehearsed the text a few times. Then he set up and walked toward the camera, toward the star. "And now," Potts said with enthusiasm, "here's reaction from his adoring idols." He fumbled the line. His producer watched. Take two: "And now, here's reaction from his adoring idols." The cameraman screwed up. Take three: "And now, here's reaction from his adoring idols." The soundman, hunched over his equipment on the sidewalk, looked up. "Adoring idols?" he said. "Shouldn't it be 'adoring fans?' 'His adoring fans?'" This required a conference - Potts, producer, cameraman, and the slightly more literate soundman. "That's not right. Johnny is the idol. The fans idolize him. He's the idol; the fans aren't the idols." They laboriously parsed the eight word sentence, teasing out its meaning. Potts and his producer got the writers on the line and explained, "We're not getting reaction from his idols. Johnny is the idol." Then they peered at the blackberry and waited for a new language fragment from the writers. It arrived: "And now, here's reaction from his adoring fans."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
Cash, Johnny--Death and burial KABC-TV (Television station : Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) KCAL-TV (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.) Television news anchors--California--Los Angeles Television stations--California--Los Angeles Hollywood Walk of Fame Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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