RIP: New York Talk Show Host Stanley Siegel
The colorful one-time WABC and WCBS personality was 79.
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Try for a moment to imagine Michael Strahan lying down on a couch once a week for 10 minutes to speak to a psychoanalyst about his personal struggles, while Kelly Ripa takes a coffee break. And… Strahan further framing the weekly on-air sessions with three longer such sessions off-camera.
As crazy as this conjured image seems, it was once a part of WABC’s The Stanley Siegel Show, which debuted in 1975 in the same weekday time slot. From the New York Times obituary by Sam Roberts:
Fearless and sometimes tasteless, Mr. Siegel grilled the transgender former professional tennis player Renée Richards about her sex life; challenged Henry M.
