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Backstage: Stories from My Life in Public Television
Paperback
Publisher Price: $24.95
ISBN13: 9780803240667
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Oct 1 2012
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.58 Depth: 8.49
Language: English
Born in 1930 in Diddlin' Dora's establishment on the banks of Rapid Creek and carried by the Madam herself to a social worker at the Alex Johnson Hotel in Rapid City, Ron Hull was destined from the outset to live an interesting life. And interesting it has indeed been, at the very least. A well-known and much-loved figure after six decades in television, Hull sets out in Backstage to tell his story--from playing a bellhop in a junior class play in South Dakota (and meeting his real mother backstage) to initiating the American Experience series for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Before he even owned a television set, Hull produced a military TV show at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. But it wasn't until he got a job in public broadcasting in Lincoln, Nebraska, that he truly found his medium. Hull has a lifetime of fascinating anecdotes to tell: working as a producer and director, encountering celebrities like John Wayne and William Shatner, befriending famous Nebraskans like writers Mari Sandoz and John Neihardt and actress Sandy Dennis, moving to Saigon in 1966 to bring television to embattled Vietnam, and working in Washington as director of the program fund for the CPB. Through it all, though, Hull's story is a tribute to his adopted Nebraska, a celebration of the people--stars and unsung heroes--he's known, and a moving memoir of the dramas of life, large and small.
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