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Having Fun
Where it all began. This family album snapshot, taken in the Spring of 1975, shows Hal sitting on the front steps of Elvis Presley’s birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi. The house is now the centrepiece of the 15 acre Elvis Presley Park which includes a museum and other exhibits; but as this picture shows, two years before Elvis’s death, the homestead was simply a “shotgun style” house, casually open for a couple of hours a day. Hal was a fan of Elvis, saw him perform three times and became a friend of one of Elvis’s closest high school buddies in Memphis, Tennessee, who shared many stories with Hal about the real life of “The King”.
Before the WWE® and when professional wrestling was operated mainly by promoters in regional territories, Hal was an interviewer and ring announcer and then took a turn at ring announcing the big shows in Detroit in the mid 1980s. But in this 1965 photograph (judging by his glasses it was obviously decades before laser vision correction) Hal is shown the rigors of sports entertainment by announcer and performer Lord Athol Layton. (Photo by Spike Bell, P.P.A. Certified, M. Photog., M.P.A.)
Hockey Great & M.P. Ken Dryden applies pressure to one of Windsor's top journalists
LINDA GRAY (center) has been best known for her portrayal of Sue Ellen Ewing in the international television hit “Dallas”. Linda and Hal did a banquet performance together and remain friends and correspondents to the present day. Bethany Rooney (left), who also appeared, directed episodes of “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman”.
“MARK TWAIN TONIGHT”. The two Hals (the far more famous Mr. Holbrook on the left, partway out of his classic Mark Twain makeup) exchanged a half hour of thoughts after a performance by Mr. Holbook at the Fisher Theater in Detroit, Michigan.
THE BEATLES, 1966 Hal met, took this and other photographs and wrote a feature article about The Fab Four at one of their appearances in Detroit, Michigan.
LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS was the subject of another Hal Sullivan interview and photograph. Lou added special words of gratitude to his signature.
“DEKE WILSON’S MINI-MYSTERIES” has been a youth television hit in well over a dozen countries. “Deke” (in real life, Eddie Hawkeswood) and Hal shared the lens in several episodes.
“FRIENDLY PERSUASION” wasn’t needed when the international star Pat Boone met with Hal after a performance in Hal’s home city of Windsor, Ontario.
“TOMORROW”. The classic White House scene from the acclaimed musical “Annie” has featured Hal (right) portraying FDR on numerous occasions.
Journalism In Ancient Egypt Hal interviews William H. Peck, former Curator of Near Eastern Art for the Detroit Institute of Arts and a renowned scholar who was a principal archeologist at this site, near the Temple of Karnak at Luxor, of a lesser temple dedicated to the Goddess Mut……regarded as divine mother and queen of all Egyptian gods. |
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