PETER FUNT: Remembering the wonderfully wonderful Sonny Fox
Irwin Fox died the other day. If you missed it because you were engrossed in obits about Hank Aaron, Larry King and Cloris Leachman, thatâs understandable. Besides, at 95, Mr. Fox had outlived many of his fans. As a kid in Brooklyn they called him âSonny,â so he kept it â for the months he spent in a Nazi POW camp during WWII, through broadcasting courses at NYU, and into the offices of the âCandid Microphoneâ radio program, where my father, Allen Funt, gave him his first job in 1947. The radio show and its television offshoot, âCandid Camera,â became D...
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