Tom Leykis: Tom Leykis. Actor: Black Scorpion. Tom Leykis started out in radio by winning a contest in 1970 for a one-time radio appearance in Long Island. He did such a good job on the air that they asked him back several times to fill in. In the late 1970s he had his own cable public access program in Manhattan, NY.
He got his his first paying radio job as an overnight personality...