DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Bob Barker, Longtime Host of ‘The Price Is Right,’ Dies at 99
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Richard Severo | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Bob Barker, the consistently good-natured host of “The Price Is Right,” the longest-running game show in American television history, and one of the country’s best-known advocates for animal rights, died on Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles. His death was announced by a spokesman, Roger Neal. Mr. Barker was a fixture of daytime television for half a century — first as the host of “Truth or Consequences,” from 1956 to 1974, and, most famously, starting in 1972, on “The Price Is Right.”He began his 35-year stint as host of “The New Price Is Right,” as it was then known, when it made its debut on CBS as a revised and jazzed-up version of the original “The Price Is Right,” which had been on the air from 1956 to 1965. (The “New” was soon dropped from the name.) He was also host of a weekly syndicated nighttime version from 1977 until it was canceled in 1980.

Persons: Bob Barker, Roger Neal, Mr, Barker, ” Organizations: CBS Locations: Hollywood, Los Angeles

☆ Bob Barker, long-time US TV game show host, dies at age 99
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/2] Bob Barker introduces the "Plinko" game segment during the taping of his final episode of the game show "The Price Is Right" in Los Angeles June 6, 2007. Barker died on Saturday morning of natural causes at his longtime Hollywood Hills, California, home, his publicist Roger Neal said. "No, I'm working," deadpanned Barker, known for his good-natured humor. In the film "Happy Gilmore," Barker played himself in a memorable scene in which he was playing in a golf pro-am tournament with Sandler's character, an excitable failed hockey player turned golfer. Even before his stint on that show wrapped up, Barker began hosting "The Price Is Right" on CBS.

Persons: Bob Barker, Fred Prouser, Barker, Happy Gilmore, Adam Sandler, Roger Neal, bray, deadpanned Barker, Sandler, Chuck Norris, Dorothy, Will Dunham, Paul Grant, Timothy Gardner, Bill Trott, Diane Craft Organizations: REUTERS, Hollywood, Sea, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Hartford Courant, Miss USA, Miss Universe, NBC, CBS, Thomson Locations: Los Angeles, Hollywood Hills , California, Sea Shepherd, U.S, Darrington , Washington

Eventually, he had his own radio show in Los Angeles, “The Bob Barker Show.”American game show host Bob Barker points to himself on a nearby television screen as his wife Dorothy Jo Barker (1924 - 1981) looks on and laughs, November 4, 1977. Gabi Rona/MPTV/Reuters Barker, right, appears on a 1960 episode of "Bonanza" along with actors Jim Galante, Ken Mayer and Natalie Trundy. CBS/Getty Images Barker and Amanda Jones, who was Miss Illinois, are seen after Jones won the 1973 Miss USA Pageant. David Livingston/Getty Images Barker plays with his pet Mr. Rabbit at his home in Los Angeles in 2011. There hasn’t been a day on set that I didn’t think of Bob Barker and thank him.

Persons: Bob Barker, Roger Neal, Barker, popper, Bill Cullen, Drew Carey, ”, “, ‘, ’ ” Barker, Robert William Barker, ’ ”, “ I’d, Drury, Dorothy Jo Barker, Ralph Edwards, Edwards, wasn’t, – Barker, Barker’s, nimbly, Barker's, Jesse Grant, Gabi Rona, MPTV, Reuters Barker, Jim Galante, Ken Mayer, Natalie Trundy, Dorothy Jo, Tilly, Paul W, Bailey, NBCUniversal, Gerald Smith, Herb Ball, Amanda Jones, Jones, Ron Galella, Lennox McLendon, Dian Parkinson, Janice Pennington —, Parkinson, Jim Smeal, Adam Sandler, Happy Gilmore, Mark Mainz, Robert Hanashiro, Mark Davis, Ingrid Newkirk, David Livingston, Rabbit, Damian Dovarganes, Scott Clifton, Lisette M, Azar, CBS Barker, Monty Brinton, Dorothy Jo Gideon, Gideon, you’ve, Gilmore ’, Carey, ‘ Bob, I’m, ‘ Drew, you’re, Nancy Burnet, Gilmore, ” Sandler, Bob, hasn’t Organizations: CNN, CBS, American Television, Drury College, U.S . Navy, Springfield, NBC, Reuters, DJ, T Foundation, US Naval Reserve, Getty, Miss, Miss USA, MTV, Television Academy Hall of Fame, USA, PETA, “, Los Angeles Times Locations: Mission , South Dakota, Rosebud, Springfield , Missouri, Los Angeles, Miss Illinois, “, ”

☆ Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters dead at 74
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Daniel Trotta | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Dec 31 (Reuters) - Anita Pointer, one of the Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters whose string of pop, country and R&B hits in the 1970s and '80s included "I'm So Excited," "Jump (For My Love)" and "Fire," died of cancer on Saturday at age 74, her publicist said. Pointer was surrounded by family at her Beverly Hills home when she died, publicist Roger Neal said. The Pointer Sisters later became a quartet for a while with Ruth, the only one of the original singing sisters still alive, though Bonnie left the group in the late 1970s and they became a trio once again. The Pointer sisters also have two surviving brothers, Fritz and Aaron. Anita was preceded in death by her daughter Jada, who died in 2003, when Anita took over raising her granddaughter, Roxie McKain Pointer.

☆ Trailblazing pop and country singer Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters has died at 74
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Jason Lalljee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Anita Pointer, who penned many of the Pointer Sisters' hits, died at the age of 74. Pointer and her sisters broke ground for Black women in country and pop with their hits in the '70s and '80s. Pointer was a founding member of the Pointer Sisters, a vocal group from Oakland that achieved critical and commercial success in the '70s and '80s, blending genres such as blues, pop, and R&B. On the original recording, Pointer was also the lead vocalist, as she was for many of the group's hits. In addition to being the first female African-American act to appear at the Grand Ole Opry, the Pointer Sisters were also the first contemporary artists to perform at the San Francisco Opera House.

Search resuls for: "Roger Neal"

5 mentions found