The reporter who led the crusade that this story is based on died today of cancer.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/5009880.html
Rest In Peace, Marvin Zindler!!!
I never got so much pleasure in knowing there was SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!! :(
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What impression did he have of the movie? was he offended?
sharethe movie was based on the chicken ranch in la grange, texas. marvin zindler did a report on the place in the early 70s and was the reason the place got shut down.
shareWhat impression did he have of the movie? Was he offended?
That's a pretty good question, hoss, if you know the answer. I'll bet he was thrilled. I remember seeing him on TV when we vacationed in Houston in '78, and I had him mixed up with Phil Donahue for, literally, YEARS. Funny kid detail, I know, but it's true.
Tom Snyder died, too, though, I heard; I liked him a lot more. Selah.
Okay,
Bobbo
"Only a fool would say that." --STEELY DAN
I'm under the impression that he loved the movie. He was friendly with Dom Delouise and did an interview in 1997 with him. (I live in the houston area and have been eeping up with all the zindler news). His favoite song was Hard Candy Christmas from the show...and when the playhouse down here that i've done a couple of shows at did Whorehouse a few years ago, he came and saw it.
shareHe was a huge fan of the play. However, he did not like the movie because they said he was from New Jersey, but he was actually from Houston.
shareAfter he died I read in the paper that he hated the movie version especially the way he was portayed by Dom Delouise. He felt it mad him look like a real nut. (Not like the candy bar).
shareMarvin Zindler, on which Melvin P. Thorpe is based, liked the play but didn't like the film. Zindler said that his crusade against the Chicken Ranch has been taken out of context. He wasn't trying to get it closed down because of the prostitution, but because of the Ranch's reported ties to organized crime and other shady business dealings.
Arthur
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Thank you Marvin Zindler. You did Texas a great service!
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Sheriff T.J. Flournoy, who had overseen the La Grange area for 27 years, denied that the Chicken Ranch was involved in organized crime, and denied that he had been bribed to keep the place open. Zindler approached Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe about the matter. After a very brief investigation, which found no evidence of a link to organized crime, Briscoe and Texas Attorney General John Hill ordered the Chicken Ranch to be permanently closed.
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