WATCHED "China Syndrome" the other night and saw Stan Bohrman in a scene involving an anchor. It was pretty quick but memorable because Bohrman was essential 70's-style anchoring.He worked here in the Bay Area at PIX.
He died way back in 1994 --I should have mentioned it sooner.
Bohrman's acting credit in the movie.
Let me tell you about the "Bohrman Blast". I worked at KPIX when Stan was anchoring. There was a carefully situated air vent and fan aimed at Stan's noggin. The purpose was to help him keep his cool, literally. It worked very well under hot lights of that era, being just strong enough but not strong enough to affect the hair!
ReplyDeleteCool piece of trivia (no pun, intended).
DeleteI remember taking a tour of a couple TV stations in the late 70s via a college course and they let us sit on the sit and had the lights on. Felt like I was in the oven!
DeleteHe was briefly an anchor around the same time at KYW in Philadelphia too, which was an NBC affil at the time. I always thought he was well-named, though Stan Blowhard would have been equally good.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the first 5 minutes of "Dirty Harry" Captain Satellite has a small role as the District Attorney.
ReplyDeleteAnd Art Brown, anchor and reporter for KRON when it was a real TV station, was in a "Dirty Harry" movie too. I think George Reading had a small part as well in one of those movies. Ah yes, the good ol' days.
DeleteSpeaking of Dirty Harry Movies. How about Bill Wattenburg in The Dead Pool. Best line in that moveie, "Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one"
DeleteKGO's Bob Trebor once did a turn in "The Streets of San Francisco." The Automotive Engineering guy too, though I can't pull up his name right now.
DeleteStan was in a couple of scenes in China Syndrome... I found the drinking scene a little more insightful because he was not reading a prompter, but offering a little boorish male attitude about the Jane Fonda character. Good acting or good alcohol?
ReplyDeleteStan Bohrmann was a hugely talented guy I thought, but probably wasn't in the right place at the right time to be an "anchor legend." KPIX management in the mid seventies was determined to succeed with out of towners -- Gene Tuck, Andy Park, Milt Kahn, later-LA stalwart Harold Greene -- an idea that went nowhere. Finally they tabbed the most local of local guys, Dave McElhatton, and things got better. The Bay Area doesn't take to new out of towners, after all, nobody liked Lindsey Nelson, and even Al Michaels wasn't anybody's favorite.
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