Milton Supman (1926-2009)
What About Clients? (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
No boomer growing up in Detroit in the 50s and 60s could miss Soupy Sales....
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R.I.P. Milton Supman
Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Soupy Sales dies at 83. I grew up watching his show. The possibility of humor dogged Sales from the start. He was born Milton Supman on Jan. 28, 1926, in the North Carolina backwater of Franklinton. The Supmans were the only Jews in town. Sales’ father ran a dry goods store that sold sheets to [...]
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Soupy Sales is gone – RIP Milton
Angry White Boy (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Growing up in the burbs of Detroit, I remember my Dad lining us kids up to watch Soupy Sales. Soupy was played by Milton Supman, and became famous for his pie throwing antics. From WIKI: On January 1, 1965, miffed at having to work on the holiday, Sales ended his live broadcast by encouraging his young viewers to [...] No related posts.
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So long Soupy
Massachusetts Liberal (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Farewell Milton Supman. You made me laugh. Soupy Sales was a legend, a pie-throwing clown who did kids shows in the 1950s and '60s. With his expressive face and a host of characters like Black Tooth and White Fang, he was great laughs for a little kid. But it was one pie toss I recall most vividly. In those days, the Mike Douglas Show (where Roger Ailes got his start) was broadcast in...
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Bradley Burston: Soupy Sales, Rod Serling -- Prophets Who Raised a Generation
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
This was an era when the original Mad Men ruled the collective unconscious, when a gleaming pastel future, and, by extension, a lavishly sterile present, were held up as ideals and goals.
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Lester Sloan: Soupy Sales,The First Birdbath: From the Detroit Stories
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The television screen flashed that all-to-familiar headline of a death in the nation: a photo followed by a birth date and an exit date: In this case, a picture of Soupy Sales followed by the dates 1926-2009. "Nooo! Soupy's dead!" Detroiter Rodney McDonald, like many of us, grew up enjoying the antics of Soupy Sales, whom he often referred to by his given name, Milton Supman. I'm sure...
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The Butler Did It and The Soupy is Served.
The Morehead The Merrier (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Two men are the topic of what may well be October's only posting here. I apologize for my postings here being so infrequent, but I've been busy over at The Huffington Post , which pretty much eats up all my flogging energy, and Little Dougie has been (and still is) occupied writing a musical with a songwriter friend of his, and has little creative energy left over for here. So sorry, but what you see...
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Soupy Sales
SteveAudio (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Pie-throwing master Soupy Sales , whose madcap antics won the hearts of both young and old, passed away Thursday at age 83. Sales was born Milton Supman on January 8, 1926, in Franklinton, North Carolina. His parents owned a dry goods store, and the Supmans were the only Jewish family in town. Young Milton picked up the nickname "Soup Bone", in reference to his...
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Comedian Soupy Sales Dead At 83
The Celebrity Blog , Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity... (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
It was a simple gag, but one that made Soupy Sales a household name: a pie in the face, or 20,000 pies, to be exact. That slapstick comedic trick, along with a warehouse of goofy faces and wacky characters helped elevate Sales (born Milton Supman) to one of the country's ...
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Pie-Throwing Comedian Soupy Sales Dies
TechBanyan (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Comedian Soupy Sales, known for his pie-throwing, rubber-faced, improvisational style, died on Thursday at the age of 83. Sales, whose real name was Milton Supman, had health problems and entered Calvary Hospice last week, and died Thursday in the Bronx, New York, according to former manager and longtime friend, Dave Usher. At the peak of his fame [...]
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RIP, Soupy Sales
Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
One of the greats of American TV comedy has taken his last pie in the face. Milton Supman, aka Soupy Sales, has died at the age of 83 .
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An ode to Soupy Sales
My left wing (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... while: he spoke to kids, never down to them - his most enduring trait, in my opinion. He was born Milton Supman in Franklinton, North Carolina in 1926, with "Hey, Soupman" eventually morphing into "Hey, Soupy", then adding Sales after the comic Chic Sale. As he told in his wonderful memoir Soupy Sez his father ran a dry goods store .... ....where the Ku Klux Klan...
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Original Pie Comedian, Soupy Sales, Dies At 83
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Photograph of Soupy Sales at the Friars Club, with Pat Cooper (right), Stuart Ramson/AP The original anarchic comedy hero for teenagers and college students, Soupy Sales, died Thursday in a hospice in New York City after suffering from multiple health problems. He was 83. Soupy, one of the only known men to have splattered a pie in Fank Sinatra's face and take more than 20,000 cream-fille tins to...
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Soupy Says Farewell
Erik's Choice (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
RIP, Soupy Sales (1/8/1926-10/22/2009)! Some fun Soupy facts: Pre -Soupy name, Milton Supman . Same birthday (different year) as Elvis Presley, Graham Chapman of Monty Python, and David Bowie. Born in the small town of Franklinton , North Carolina. His family, the only Jewish one in town. Joined the US Navy during the Second World War. Made it big in Detroit in the 1950s, and went on...
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Goodbye White Fang, Black Tooth & Soupy Sales
The POP ART DIVA Baby Boomer Blog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
SOUPY SALES January 8, 1926 - October 22,2009 Milton Supman (professional name Milton Hines) - more famously known as Soupy Sales - has passed away at the age of 83. Soupy Sales was a regular visitor to my house when I was a kid. My siblings and I watched his show all the time and I remember first hand some of the stunts he pulled that later became legend (and a bit infamous.)...