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cc: Dick Cheney, Dave Gergen
I [Savage Steve Holland] was asked by the producer Bill Carruthers to invent a bad creature that stole people's money," Holland told Collider. "I drew something on a napkin and the producer said, 'That's it!' He [Bill Carruthers] did the voice, not me. I animated that little fella on the most primitive computer animation system on Earth. It was steam-powered. But I love my terribly animated Whammies!
REPORTER: The thin man with the blue jacket and searching eyes is Bill Carruthers, Mr. Ford's cosmetic advance man. He's searching for risks, anything among the lights, the cameras, the podiums, the equipment, the atmosphere that might distract Mr. Ford. He's at Ford's podium now rehearsing the sound system.; BILL CARRUTHERS: Quiet, please.
On the Ford side, there is considerable respect for Mr. Carter and his abilities as a television performer. "He's an incredible opponent," said Bill Carruthers, a Los Angeles television producer who advised former President Nixon in all his television appearances and recently was recalled to the White House to perform the same function for Mr. Ford.
[Carruthers] is expected to be on the staff of David Gergen, the new director of White House communications, with whom he worked on President Richard Nixon's campaign in 1972.
In true Cinderella fashion, he showed up to work one day on the local "Soupy Sales Show" and after being told at the last minute the director was unable to do the program, volunteered to fill in — and became the show's new director. He moved his family to Hollywood in 1959 when the show went national. A year later, he began working with other skeins including "The Steve Allen Show" and "The Ernie Kovaks Show."
ESPN has ordered a sports trivia gameshow pilot, "Designated Hitter," from the William Carruthers Co. and Kitchen Table Prods. Curt Chaplin will host.
TV director-producer Bill Carruthers, who began his career in the 1950s as helmer of the pie-throwing "Soupy Sales" show, died March 2 in L.A. of heart failure, after being sidelined by a stroke six years before. He was 72.
I [Savage Steve Holland] was asked by the producer Bill Carruthers to invent a bad creature that stole people's money," Holland told Collider. "I drew something on a napkin and the producer said, 'That's it!' He [Bill Carruthers] did the voice, not me. I animated that little fella on the most primitive computer animation system on Earth. It was steam-powered. But I love my terribly animated Whammies!
cc: Dick Cheney, Dave Gergen
On the Ford side, there is considerable respect for Mr. Carter and his abilities as a television performer. "He's an incredible opponent," said Bill Carruthers, a Los Angeles television producer who advised former President Nixon in all his television appearances and recently was recalled to the White House to perform the same function for Mr. Ford.
[Carruthers] is expected to be on the staff of David Gergen, the new director of White House communications, with whom he worked on President Richard Nixon's campaign in 1972.