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EYE. WITNESS. NEWS.
Jul. 29th, 2007 11:58 pmMarvin Zindler died today. I am far more sad about this than I would expect.
For those of you who haven't been around the Houston area in the past 30 years or so... he was the consumer reporter for the ABC affiliate. If you've ever seen Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, it's based on a true story -- he was the TV news guy who "uncovered" the Chicken Ranch. He was basically the crazy uncle of Houston news: he wore blue sunglasses all the time (including on air), he had plastic surgeries numbering in the double digits (including on air...I think), and he had a lifetime contract with Channel 13. He was also very well-known for his signoff ("MAAAAARVIN Zindler. EYE. WITNESS. NEWS.") and for his reports where he would go over the various health inspection violations for the week, saving for last those with "SLIIIIME in the ICE MACHINE!" He was even still doing them from his hospital bed(!).
I was at my parents' this evening (dropping off some boxes) and they actually broke into programming on channel 13 to announce that he'd died. It looks like basically the whole 10 o'clock news was about him.
Anyway, Marvin Zindler: crazy awesome.
For those of you who haven't been around the Houston area in the past 30 years or so... he was the consumer reporter for the ABC affiliate. If you've ever seen Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, it's based on a true story -- he was the TV news guy who "uncovered" the Chicken Ranch. He was basically the crazy uncle of Houston news: he wore blue sunglasses all the time (including on air), he had plastic surgeries numbering in the double digits (including on air...I think), and he had a lifetime contract with Channel 13. He was also very well-known for his signoff ("MAAAAARVIN Zindler. EYE. WITNESS. NEWS.") and for his reports where he would go over the various health inspection violations for the week, saving for last those with "SLIIIIME in the ICE MACHINE!" He was even still doing them from his hospital bed(!).
I was at my parents' this evening (dropping off some boxes) and they actually broke into programming on channel 13 to announce that he'd died. It looks like basically the whole 10 o'clock news was about him.
Anyway, Marvin Zindler: crazy awesome.
