L.A. Icon Gone: Hal Fishman R.I.P.
August 7, 2007Hal Fishman, long-time LA television anchor, has passed on at 75. Always working for independent television stations since beginning his career in 1965, he anchored his last KTLA broadcast on July 30, a week before he died on August 6 from colon and liver cancer.
What made him stand out from the blow-dry crop of talking heads and pneumatic blondes in local news was his erudite style. A former professor of political science, he actually understood the news he read and could explain and amplify it for his hundreds of thousands of viewers.
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Like all of us, he had his foibles, from his ‘gravitas’ to his toupee, that made him the model for the Simpson’s Kent Brockman. But ultimately he earned trust with his audience and became as much an icon of Los Angeles as the giant Randy’s Donuts sign.
