Chicago – This week, the new documentary “Mike Wallace is Here” will release in Chicago, so who better to get a perspective on the CBS News and “60 Minutes” interviewer and reporter than Bruce DuMont, a Chicago broadcasting icon who has covered the scene since the late 1960s.
The title of the doc “Mike Wallace is Here” refers to the phrase, when said to a person in a certain era of television journalism, meant that person was about to be subjected to Wallace’s bulldog style of investigative interrogation, or in the case of politicians and celelbrities, an incisively direct interview. Mike Wallace began as a jack-of-all-trades in 1940s radio and early television in the 1950s, mixing entertainment, ad pitchman and even acting. He began to be known as an interviewer on a New York City TV show “Night Beat” (1955) and ABC-tv’s “The Mike Wallace Interview” (1957).
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The title of the doc “Mike Wallace is Here” refers to the phrase, when said to a person in a certain era of television journalism, meant that person was about to be subjected to Wallace’s bulldog style of investigative interrogation, or in the case of politicians and celelbrities, an incisively direct interview. Mike Wallace began as a jack-of-all-trades in 1940s radio and early television in the 1950s, mixing entertainment, ad pitchman and even acting. He began to be known as an interviewer on a New York City TV show “Night Beat” (1955) and ABC-tv’s “The Mike Wallace Interview” (1957).
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- 7/30/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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