When Marc Gelmon was young, everything he knew about transgender people came from The Phil Donahue Show. “We were called transsexuals back then,” says Gelmon, 51, a transgender man who lives in Richmond, B.C.. As a kid, his family had a tenuous connection to the Jewish community. Though ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Wilber and Orville Wright, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Phil Donahue, Allison Janey are just a few of the local legends honored on the Dayton Region's Walk of Fame. There will soon be seven new names added to the sidewalk. Continue Reading. Copyright 2018 Nexstar Broadcasting, ...

(It was banned in Ontario.) Teri was attacked in some quarters for allowing her daughter to star in the film. On Phil Donahue's daytime talk show, Shields recalls, audience members yelled, 'This is terrible you let your daughter do this.' And my mom says, 'Have you seen the film?' And they would say, 'No, ...

A media frenzy ensued—complete with television interviews with Tom Brokaw and Phil Donahue—and a giddy period of discovery began. Not only were the trio identical physically, they shared many specific behaviors: All were wrestlers, had a preference for dating older women, and (apropos of the time) ...

On his television show, he was said to project a “combination of Sigmund Freud, Mister Rogers and Phil Donahue.” Mainly, he tried to persuade parents not to worry so much. “Parents care so much they can't smile,” he told an audience in 1979. “They can't smile and give children a feeling of the excitement ...

A media frenzy ensued—complete with television interviews with Tom Brokaw and Phil Donahue—and a giddy period of discovery began. Not only were the trio identical physically, they shared many specific behaviors: All were wrestlers, had a preference for dating older women, and (apropos of the time) ...

Missy the maid (Louisa Pastorius) is drawn to the chaos, hoping it will generate fame and a chance to be on television with Phil Donahue or Oprah, an indication of the vintage-1990 script by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore. The first half ends with a carousel of characters leaping through the hotel room for ...

“We've just about got the entire museum filled,” said Expo Chairman Phil Donahue on Friday. Donahue recounted that Richard Good, Nita Coleman, himself and others decided to organize the event after encouragement from the Sierra Club. In two standout features, the Expo will include offer tours of the ...

That is the vividly remembered “teaser” that Judith Helfand recalled from talk show host Phil Donahue's TV story on DES. This is how she found out that she is a DES daughter: She was 14 years old in 1978 and home alone. Judith saw Phil Donahue's story and was struck by the irony of pregnant women ...

How Phil Donahue used Dayton audiences to pioneer the day-time talk show. Television show format happened by accident. local. By Lisa Powell - Staff Writer ... Posted: 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 21, 2017 ...

On this date in TV Kiese history 50 years ago: Dayton radio talk show host Phil Donahue revolutionized TV with the debut of the "Phil Donahue Show" live on Dayton's Channel 2 on Nov. 6, 1967. Donahue created a new genre - the daytime TV talk show - discussing current news topics and controversies.

Phil Donahue on his legendary career and becoming a single dad. The talk show pioneer joins Megyn Kelly to talk about his long career as a television host, being a feminist, tackling topics for a largely female audience, and how he balanced his career with life as a single dad.

The longtime host of Donahue, Phil Donahue established the modern daytime talk show format with his focus on audience participation and hot-button social issues. In 1967 he began hosting The Phil Donahue Show. The show lasted nearly 3-decades and both the host and host won numerous Emmy ...

Spies overheard the talk-show pioneer dishing about Hall to her Investigation Discovery boss Henry Schleiff at Donohue's Steak House on the Upper East Side on Wednesday night. “He thinks she's a great pick and will be really successful if she follows the right way to do it,” a source told us. “He would ...

Former talk-show host Phil Donahue on Saturday reflected on President Trump's administration, calling it "the darkest political moment in American history." “This is the darkest political moment in American history,” Donahue said on MSNBC's "AM Joy" Saturday. “Who's going to argue that?” ...