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Clip 1 -- 48 Hours
CBS's prime time news magazine 48 Hours did a feature in the early 1990s on my Quitting The Mob subject Michael Franzese. Michael, a Colombo family Mafia prince from New York, gave up his wildly lucrative criminal empire after falling in love with a straight-laced Mexican dancer in LA. The love birds are shown here -- me too! -- in an excellent feature produced by CBS correspondent Bernie Goldberg. Bernie had previously covered a number stories following the legal cases of my Get Me Ellis Rubin! subject, famed Miami defense attorney Ellis Rubin. Bernie's a good guy.
Clip 2 -- Ad
Then University of Miami coach Jimmy Johnson doubled as the
advertising spokesperson for The Norton Tire Company, a bustling,
automotive chain in South Florida. Norton Tire was a client of the public
relations firm I worked for briefly in the mid-1990s. They needed some
bodies to fill out a press conference scene for one particular ad, and I
was tapped to pull my trusty reporter's pad out of retirement. Typical
typecasting! I even got to say a few words -- but alas, no residuals.
I orchestrated a number of promotional events for Johnson and Norton Tire during this period, just as I had for the previous coach,
Howard Schnellenberger.
After winning a National Championship at Miami and building a team that would win two more after he left, Johnson moved up to the Dallas Cowboys. He rebuilt that famous franchise and won two Super Bowls. Johnson
has since returned to Miami where he's currently trying to get the Miami
Dolphins back into the Super Bowl.
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