TO HAL BATES FROM BILL

"Thanks, Hal / Best wishes / Bill Sh [?]"


Who's Bill? Can't read the last name. Anyone know?

TO HAL BATES FROM GINNY GAN [GIRLS IN BIKINIS SUB-CATEGORY]

"To Hal, May all your days kick-off to a good start! Luv - Ginny Gan"

"Dear Hal, All good wishes for you. George Franklin" [?]

Jennifer Gan (died September 15, 2000) was a stage, film and television actress. She appeared in sixteen film and TV titles in the sixties and early seventies.

A life member of The Actors Studio, she first began her career as Ginny Gan on the stage in musicals such as Li'l Abner in 1958, The Pink Jungle in 1959 starring Ginger Rogers and Agnes Moorehead, and No Strings in 1962. She made her first TV appearance in a popular Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode in late 1964. She then appeared on stage in the musical Guys and Dolls, in 1965 with actress Sheila MacRae.





She was seen again in the spring of 1967 when making four more film and TV appearances. She appeared in the James Coburn spy spoof sequel In Like Flint and his tongue in cheek western Waterhole No. 3. She then appeared in an episode in the last season of the hit TV show The Monkees. She also had an uncredited role in the hit film Valley of the Dolls. She also appeared in the stage play The Two Gentlemen of Verona.



In 1968, she appeared in an episode in the last season of the hit TV show Batman. She then was cast in the hit family comedy film Yours, Mine and Ours. She had a speaking role with Henry Fonda in the coffee house scenes when he was on his big first date with Lucille Ball in the popular film.

In 1969, she changed her name to Jennifer Gan and continued performing until late 1972. She made appearances in episodes of The Virginian and Ironside. She then began a professional association with Roger Corman that lasted through two B movies. The first was Naked Angels where she starred as a biker chick, clad in leather and lace. The film featured a soundtrack co-written by fuzz guitarist Jeff Simmons. She also appeared as a dancer in the feature film Hello, Dolly!.

In 1970, she appeared in a first season episode of the popular TV shows Love, American Style and Marcus Welby, M.D.. In 1971, she starred in her second Roger Corman film, Women in Cages. In 1972, she appeared in an episode of Nichols and made an appearance in the film The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid. She made her final onscreen appearance in a fourth season episode of Marcus Welby, M.D., in 1972.

Gan died on September 15, 2000.

TO HAL BATES FROM MR. BLACKWELL

"For Hal, a really special Guy / Mr. Blackwell"

Richard Blackwell (August 29, 1922 – October 19, 2008) was an American fashion critic, journalist, television and radio personality, artist, former child actor and former fashion designer, sometimes known just as Mr. Blackwell.

He was the creator of the "Ten Worst Dressed Women List", an annual awards presentation he unveiled in January of each year. He published the "Fabulous Fashion Independents" list and an annual Academy Awards fashion review, both of which receive somewhat less media attention. His longtime companion, former Beverly Hills hairdresser Robert Spencer, managed him. He wrote two books, Mr. Blackwell: 30 Years of Fashion Fiascos and an autobiography, From Rags to Bitches.

The name "Mr. Blackwell" came in the late-1950s when he launched his clothing line. As with Valentino, Versace and later Richard Tyler, he and his line became synonymous. He was an important designer and during the 1960s he became the first in history to present his line on a television broadcast, and was the first to make his line available for plus-size women^. His designer dresses sold for between $800 to $1,000 and were very successful^. 

During the nearly two decade existence of the "House of Blackwell”, he was designer to Yvonne DeCarlo, Jayne Mansfield, Dorothy Lamour, Jane Russell and California first lady Nancy Reagan. At the height of his prominence, he openly declared his disdain for Women's Wear Daily and its publisher, John Fairchild^. During the 1980s, the emerging drift toward casual wear brought an end to The House of Blackwell.

TO HAL BATES FROM SAM YORTY

"To Hal / Best Wishes / Sam Yorty"

Samuel William "Sam" Yorty (October 1, 1909 – June 5, 1998) was a politician from Los Angeles, California. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and the California State Assembly, but he is most remembered for his turbulent years as the 37th Mayor of Los Angeles from 1961 to 1973. The colorful “Mayor Sam” earned numerous nicknames from both admirers and detractors, such as Travelin’ Sam, Airplane Sam, Shoot-From-the-Lip Sam, the Maverick Mayor, Mad Sam Yorty, Scrappy Sam, Suitcase Sam, Saigon Sam, and the Reform Republican.

Photograph by John Gaines.

Although he was the first mayor to have a female deputy, and the first to have a racially integrated staff, his appeal did not extend to most of the city's large African-American population. Disaffection with high unemployment and racism contributed to the Watts Riots of August 11–17, 1965. Yorty’s administration was criticized for failing to cooperate with efforts to improve conditions in neighborhoods such as Watts, but he accused other leaders of raising false hopes and of action by Communist agitators, having always categorically rejected any criticism of the city's police or fire departments.

After the riots, Yorty challenged incumbent Democratic Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown in the 1966 gubernatorial primary. He received 981,088 votes (37.6 percent) to Brown's 1,355,262 ballots (51.9 percent). Yorty’s politics shifted toward the right. This change became evident when he joined the election night celebration of Brown's successful opponent, Ronald W. Reagan. Yorty went to Vietnam to support the American troops and was thereafter dubbed "Saigon Sam" by his liberal opponents.

In 1967, Yorty was forced to deal with scandal after the Los Angeles Times published an expose on the city's harbor commission. The investigation led to the indictment and conviction of four city commissioners for bribery, while another was found dead in Los Angeles Harbor. The newspaper, which had long feuded with the mayor, noted that all of the individuals had been appointed by Yorty.

Support among the white middle classes fell after he was embroiled in the controversy following the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel after outraging prosecutors in the Kennedy case by freely commenting on the evidence. Ironically, Yorty's place in the history books had been assured when Kennedy had told his supporters only moments before he was shot, "Mayor Yorty has just sent me a message that we've been here too long already." During the fall of 1968, Yorty refused to endorse Democratic presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey. The strategy behind this approach was that Yorty would be rewarded with a Cabinet post by Richard Nixon for his non-support of Humphrey, but Nixon declined to offer him a position in the new administration.

In the 1969 mayoral primary, his popularity slipped well below that of Los Angeles City Council member Tom Bradley. The ensuing campaign between Yorty and Bradley, directed for Yorty by Henry Salvatori,^[2][3] proved one of the most bitter in the city's history. Yorty painted his opponent as a dangerous radical, alternately of the black power or communist revolutionary varieties. The charges were not plausible since Bradley had spent much of his career in the Los Angeles Police Department, but they resonated among fearful voters, and Yorty was re-elected.

Despite winning another four years, Yorty showed obvious signs of boredom in his position. He ran again for governor in 1970 but was handily defeated for the Democratic nomination by State Assembly Speaker Jess Unruh, 1,602,690 (61.4 percent) to 659,494 (26.3 percent). Unruh in turn was defeated by Reagan, who secured his second term as governor by a narrower margin than his 1966 majority over Pat Brown. Yorty began to leave all but the most important decisions to his staff.

After spending almost 40 percent of his time away from Los Angeles during the last half of 1971, Yorty announced on November 15 of that year that he was running for the Democratic nomination for President in 1972. Yorty had received strong support from influential New Hampshire publisher William Loeb, stating that President Nixon had “caved in” to anti-war senators and that he had never agreed with the government's policy on the war. In response to what he would do, he noted that Dwight Eisenhower had helped bring an end to the Korean War by threatening to use nuclear weapons.

However, Yorty received just six percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary and was never able to gain any momentum in his bid for the nomination. He finally ended his bid shortly before the California primary in June 1972, asking voters to support Humphrey because of the “radical” nature of anti-Vietnam War candidate George McGovern. Yorty picked up the support of a young Louisiana delegate to the Democratic convention, Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins, who subsequently served for twenty-eight years in his state's legislature but lost three bids for the United States Senate, the last as a Republican. After McGovern won the Democratic nomination for President, Yorty began to support Republicans.

Yorty's previous race-baiting demagoguery came back to haunt him in 1973, when Bradley soundly defeated him in a rematch of their 1969 race. In 1974, he ran fourth in another bid for Governor in the Democratic Primary, far behind then-Secretary of State Jerry Brown, son of Pat Brown.

TO HAL BATES FROM CAROL TEITEL

"To Hal - U had a happy night! Love - Carol Teitel"


From the New York Times:

Carol Teitel, 62, Dies; Veteran Stage Actress

Published: July 29, 1986

Carol Teitel, an actress who made many stage appearances both on and Off Broadway, died Sunday at the Cooper Hospital in Camden, N.J., of complications following an automobile accident on April 23 in Pensacola, Fla. She was 62 years old and lived in Manhattan. 

Mrs. Teitel appeared as a featured player in ''The Country Wife,'' ''The Entertainer,'' ''All Over Town,'' ''A Flea in Her Ear,'' ''Fallen Angels,'' ''Misalliance'' and in the Broadway production of ''Hamlet,'' starring Richard Burton. She won two Obie awards, for her work in ''Under Milkwood'' and ''The Country Scandal.'' She appeared in several plays written by her husband, Nathan Teitel, including ''The Keymaker,'' ''Figures in the Sand'' and ''Duet.''

In 1984, she appeared at England's Nottingham Playhouse as Mary Tyrone in ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' and as Dolly Levi in ''The Matchmaker.'' She was a founding member of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater, and appeared regularly at the Williamstown Festival. Most recently, she spent a year in the California production of ''La Cage aux Folles,'' and appeared last season in Beaumarchais's ''Marriage of Figaro'' at the Circle in the Square. Mrs. Teitel made numerous radio and television appearances.

TO HAL BATES FROM JORGE MESTER

"10/15/84 / Hal - It was fun to speak with you. Thanks, for a great interview! Jorge Mester"

Jorge Mester (born April 10, 1935, Mexico City) is a Mexican conductor of Hungarian ancestry.

He studied conducting with Jean Morel at the Juilliard School in New York, and worked with Leonard Bernstein at the Berkshire Music Center and with Albert Wolff. In 1955 he made his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and in 1960 made his opera debut with Salome at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.

Mester became music director of the Louisville Orchestra in 1967 and served in the post until 1979. In this time he gave over 200 world premieres of works commissioned by the orchestra.

From 1970 to 1990, he was music director of the Aspen Music Festival, and there founded the Aspen Chamber Symphony. He became music director of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra in 1984. His most recent contract extension had been through 2012, but in May 2010, the orchestra announced the conclusion of Mester's tenure as music director with immediate effect.



In 1998, he became music director of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra (es). From 2004-12, Mester was the music director of the Naples Philharmonic in Naples, Florida. Mester returned to Louisville in 2006 for his second tenure as music director of the Louisville Orchestra, on an "open-ended" contract of unfixed duration, until the orchestra secures a new music director, with Mester as a member of the search committee.


Mester has served as director of Juilliard's conducting department and conducted concerts and operas in the Thornton School of Music. In 1987, Mester participated in the documentary A Woman Is a Risky Bet: Six Orchestra Conductors, directed by Christina Olofson, where he comments on the conservative attitudes towards women in the world of classical music.

Mester has a long-standing affiliation with Peter Schickele and the P.D.Q. Bach concerts, dating back to 1965, when he conducted the first public P.D.Q. Bach concert.

TO HAL BATES FROM CAMILLE SAVIOLA

"To Hal - the Host with the most on the ball / con amore / Camille Saviola XXX"

A New York City native, Saviola graduated from the prestigious High School of Music and Art in Manhattan and dropped out of college after a year in order to learn acting. She was lead singer of a female rock band in NYC in 1970, the Margo Lewis Explosion. She was signed by a disco label in the late 1970s. She worked in theatrical productions in New York for 25 years, before appearing in various television series, including "The Heights", "Civil Wars", and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". She has also appeared in three Woody Allen movies.

Career: Throughout the next 25 years, Saviola would perform in theater, television, and films. She is best known for her supporting roles as an Italian, Latino or Jewish character.

She also appeared as a Bajoran religious leader, Kai Opaka, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In addition to her performance as Mama Maddelena in Tommy Tune's original Broadway production of "Nine", Broadway audiences have seen her as another Mama; Matron Mama Morton in the revival of "Chicago".

She received a CableACE Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a made-for-cable movie for Nightlife.

Awards: Back Stage West Garland Awards, 2007 award for her role in Zorba,

Filmography: Nip/Tuck episode Wesley Clovis (2009), , Entourage episode One Car, Two Car, Red Car, Blue Car (2009) ... as Turtle's Mom, episode Return to Queens Blvd (2008) ... as Turtle's Mom, episode Aquamom (2006) TV episode ... as Turtle's Mom, , Without a Trace episode Push Comes to Shove (2008) ... as Camilla Russo, , Saving Grace episode Are You an Indian Princess? (2008) ... as burn unit nurse, , Standoff episode Severance (2007) ... as Sofia Marcovich, , Lez Be Friends (2007) ... as Older Ricca, E-Ring episode Pilot (2005) ... as Secretary of Colonel McNulty, , Judging Amy episode Getting Out (2005) ... as Molly Babitz, episode The Song That Never Ends (2004) ... as Atty. Molly Babitz, episode Lost and Found (2002) TV Episode .... as Mr. Powell's Attorney, , ER episode Twas the Night (2004) ... as Margaret - Temp Desk Clerk, , Javier ya no vive solo episode dated 23 February 2003 (2003) ... as Kai Opaka, , First Monday (2002) ... as Justice Esther Weisenberg, Some of My Best Friends episode Pilot (2001) .... as Connie Zito, episode Scenes from an Italian Party ... as Connie Zito, episode The Marriage Counselor ... as Connie Zito, , JAG episode Florida Straits (2000) ... as Janet Vitaglianso, , Becker episode P.C. World (1999) ... as Mrs. Corigliani, , L.A. Doctors episode Nate Expectations (1998) ... as Maureen Hart, , Living Single episode He's the One (1997) ... as Mabel, , Sunset Park (1996) ... as Barbara, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode Accession (1996) ... as Kai Opaka, episode The Collaborator (1994) ... as Kai Opaka, episode Battle Lines (1993) ... as Kai Opaka, episode Emissary (1993) ... as Kai Opaka, , Mr. Wrong (1996) ... as Consuela, NYPD Blue episode Curt Russell (1995) ... as Evelyn Sekzer, , The West Side Waltz (1995), Hope & Gloria Love with an Improper Stranger (1995) ... as Cookie, Salon, It's Been Good to Know You (1995) TV Episode ... as Cookie, , Stuart Saves His Family (1995) ... as Roz Weinstock, Friends episode The One With the East German Laundry Detergent (1994) ... as Horrible Woman, , Addams Family Values (1993) .... as Concetta, Civil Wars episode Captain Kangaroo Court (1993), episode Denise and De Nuptials (1992), episode Mob Psychology (1992), , The Heights (1992) ... Shelley Abramowitz (1992), L.A. Law episode Christmas Stalking (1992), , Shadows and Fog (1992) ... as Landlady, All I Want for Christmas (1991) ... as Sonya, Queens Logic (1991) ... as Madame Rosa, Betsy's Wedding (1990) ... as Angelica, Nightlife (1990) ... as Rosa Mercedes, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) ... as Ella, Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989) ... as Airport Security Guard, Weekend Warriors (1986) ... as Betty Beep, Remington Steele episode Steele in the Chips (1985) ... as Shirley Tannenbaum, , The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) ... as Olga, Broadway Danny Rose (1984) ... as Lady at Party

TO HAL BATES FROM DERRY O'LEARY

"To Hal - Your [sic] a Dear Person - For "Hollywood Now" / I am grateful - There are a lot of us that need you... Faithfully, Derry 12-17-69"

Released a couple 45 rpm records on UNI Records:  "The Name of the Game" b/w "Hushabye Mountain" (UNI 55097) and "How Can I Be Sure" (UNI 55151).

In 1966, he toured as the Derry O'Leary Trio in Texas and Montana. The Trio appeared at Jo-Ann's Castle in Studio City in 1967.

In December 1968, he was appearing solo at the Santa Barbara Inn.

Derry O'Leary was a piano teacher, with Austin Wintory among his students. By 2014, he was well-established as “Denver’s Most Versatile Pianist.” 

His current listing:

Modern piano lessons in the comfort of your own home. Jazz, pop, funk, soul, blues and the classics. Lessons are fun and relaxed. Open for beginner through professional. Learn to read music, play by ear, improvise, compose, and train vocals.  Call Derry at 303-427-6207 or email DerryOleary@aol.com

TO HAL BATES FROM JOSEPH CAMPANELLA

"To Hal and Good "Table Talk" / Buena Fortuna / Joseph Campanella"

Joseph Campanella (born November 21, 1924) is an American character actor who has appeared in more than two hundred television and film roles since 1955.

His television appearances include such shows as Decoy, The Eleventh Hour, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, The Untouchables, Police Story, The Road West, The Invaders, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Mama's Family.

Off and on, on a recurring basis, from 1959 to 1962, he played a criminal named Joe Turino on the long running CBS daytime drama The Guiding Light. He had a role in 1967 as Lew Wickersham in the television series Mannix as Joe Mannix's boss and friend, before the P.I. went solo and started his own firm. Campanella appeared as attorney Brian Darrell from 1969 to 1972 in The Bold Ones: The Lawyers. Campanella played Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Captain Monty Ballard in the crime drama TV movie "Sky Heist" in 1975. He played Ann Romano's ex-husband, Ed Cooper, in seven episodes of One Day at a Time (1975–1984) and Barbara Stanwyck's love interest in the first season (1985–1986) of the Aaron Spelling's short-lived Dynasty spinoff, The Colbys.

The actor had a prominent role as Harper Deveraux on the soap opera Days of Our Lives from 1987 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1992, and a recurring role on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1996 to 2005.

TO HAL BATES FROM KARLA TAMBURRELLI

"To Hal / You're a doll! / Karla Tamburrelli"

Karla Tamburrelli is an actress and producer, known for Die Hard 2 (1990), City Slickers (1991) and Forever Young (1992).

She was nominated for a 1993 Joseph Jefferson Award for Actress in a Principal Role in a Play for "Lost in Yonkers" at Fox Theatricals in Chicago, Illinois.

Karla Tamburrelli made her film debut in the show Miami Vice as "Ample" Annie, a stripper who married Nugart Neville Lamont in the episode "Made For Each Other", later became a "singer" and waitress who befriended Dorothy Bain (played by Eszter Balint) in the episode "Buddies".

After her film debut in Vice, Tamburelli appeared in the following:

• Valerie (TV, 1988)
• Die Hard 2 (first movie appearance, 1990 with Bruce Willis)
• Nothing But Trouble (1991)
• City Slickers (1991)
• Forever Young (1992, with Joe Morton)
• Who's The Boss? (TV, 1992)
• Seinfeld (TV, 1994 with Michael Richards)
• Friends (TV, 1995, episode with Harry Shearer)
• The Big Easy (13 episodes, 1996-97)
• Maximum Bob (TV, 1998 - last recorded film appearance)

Screen Deaths:

Plump Fiction (1997) [Sister Ruth]: Machine-gunned, along with the rest of her gang (all disguised as nuns), by Paul Provenza while they're all arguing and holding weapons on each other in a warehouse (on top of Karla having been previously shot in the stomach by Julie Brown.) (Played for comic effect.)

In a Child's Name (1991 TV) [Teresa Taylor]: Beaten to death with dumbbells by Michael Ontkean. (Thanks to Drew) 

TO HAL BATES FROM STU GILLIAM

"To Hal / The best / The best from? / Stu Gilliam '69"

Stuart Bryon Gilliam (July 27, 1943 – October 10, 2013) was an African-American comedian, best remembered for his stand-up work and TV and film appearances in the 1960s and 1970s.

Gilliam was born in Detroit, Michigan and died in Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic.

In the 1950s and ’60s he often worked a nationwide circuit of clubs with mainly or exclusively black audiences, including several appearances at the Apollo in New York City. He sometimes served as an emcee for mixed-race shows, but in several states was prevented from appearing onstage at the same time as white performers.

His growing comedy skills gained him connections and respect among “other writer-performers who wanted black entertainers as a whole to advance.” Recognizing his acumen with mixed audiences, the Playboy Club circuit placed him before largely white crowds, including in southern states where that constituted an open challenge to segregation laws.

The late 1960s saw Stu break into national television, including The Ed Sullivan Show, Playboy After Dark and The Dean Martin Show. He also traveled to England and France with Liberace.

Over the next two decades, he continued to appear on television — comedy, drama and game shows — and was a star of the sitcom Roll Out for one season. He also appeared in the 1975 Broadway production The Wiz; did voice work for many children’s cartoons; and acted in a number of movies, his last role being in Meteor Man in 1993.

TO HAL BATES FROM JANN WATSON

"To Hal / You are a very easy person to talk with & very charming I might add / Sincerely - Jan"

Jan Watson was born on December 17, 1942 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Ambushers (1967), Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) and Panic in the City (1968). She was previously married to Henry Levin.

She is profiled in the book, Glamor Girls of Sixties Hollywood:

https://books.google.com/books?id=CCUSa_GmDo8C&pg=PA220&lpg=PA220&dq=%22Jann+Watson%22&source=bl&ots=p0kvsAiMeE&sig=oCEhyhPKJTYK-_3Ez_lpEFJDDCk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Ofs4VZfVF8XisAW46IHYAw&ved=0CEQQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Jann%20Watson%22&f=false

TO HAL BATES FROM MICHAEL JACKSON

"To Hal / You have been most kind -- most helpful -- We will, God Willing, meet again many times / Michael Jackson"

Michael Jackson (born April 16, 1934 in London, England) is an American talk radio host based in the Los Angeles, California area. Jackson is best known for his radio show which covered arts, politics, and human interest subjects, particularly in the Los Angeles and greater Southern California area in the era before "shock jocks." His show originally aired on L.A. radio station KABC and briefly aired on KGIL.

Jackson was born in England and experienced the Blitz as a child. After the war, during which his father served in the RAF as a navigator trainer, his family moved to South Africa where he became a radio disc jockey. The Jacksons were appalled by the apartheid then dominant in South Africa, and they moved to the United States in 1958. Jackson had always wanted to be on the radio in Los Angeles, but first, he worked in cities like San Francisco, where he did a Top-40 show for station KYA.





Listeners loved his British accent, but he didn't especially enjoy being a rock deejay. In fact, he hated rock music and ended up getting fired. When he was hired in the early '60s at KEWB to do an overnight shift, he gradually phased out playing records, and began chatting with callers. He got the reputation of being a problem-solver, and comedian Mort Sahl, a big fan of his, jokingly called him the "All Night Psychiatrist." The police regularly monitored his show, with his permission, so they could trace the calls of the occasional listener who expressed suicidal thoughts and make sure the person was okay. Time Magazine praised him for his ability to maintain a calm demeanor no matter what the subject turned out to be.

The Time article and other favorable publicity earned him some offers, and Jackson was finally hired in Los Angeles, where he briefly did the 7 p.m.-to-midnight shift at KHJ. Radio and TV critic Don Page of the Los Angeles Times took notice of him almost immediately, saying he was a "good talker and a patient listener," with an "elegant and flexible" command of the language.  But when his ratings weren't what KHJ hoped, he was fired. Fortunately, the CBS affiliate KNX picked him up, but he found their format very confining. Finally, in 1966, heritage talk station KABC hired him, and it was a perfect fit. The station was having great success with their talk radio format, and they gave Jackson the 9 a.m.-to-1 p.m. spot. Jackson remained with them for the next three decades, with critics continuing to compliment him for being "cultivated and enlightened." At that time, KABC also broadcast the Joe Pyne show, and in the mid-1970s, when Jackson beat him in the ratings, he told a reporter that this proved "you do not have to be rude to be successful."


Jackson liked to book his own guests, and he became well known for talking to interesting news makers from all around the world, ranging from Richard Nixon's former counsel Charles Colson to economist Milton Friedman to Israeli military leader Moshe Dayan. He also talked to celebrities, psychologists and comedians, but he seemed to enjoy talking about current events. On the other hand, he was sometimes criticized for being too nice with his guests and not asking enough tough questions

TO HAL BATES FROM MIREILLE DARC

"Love Always, Mireille Darc"

Mireille Darc (born 15 May 1938) is a French model and actress. She was Alain Delon's longtime co-star and companion. She appeared as a lead character in Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 film Week End. Darc is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite.

Her debut came in 1960 in Claude Barma's La Grande Brétèche. Her first leading role came in 1961 with Jean Prat's "Hauteclaire." She starred as Christine in Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire and Le retour du grand blond and alongside Alain Delon in several films: L'Homme pressé, Pouic-Pouic, Les Bons Vivants, Mort d'un pourri, Madly, Jeff, Les Seins de glace, Il était une fois un flic, Borsalino and 2003's television series Frank Riva.

This photograph as probably signed in 1970, when she was doing promotional duties for the film Borsalino, which was widely distributed in the United States.

TO HAL BATES FROM BEVERLY SANDERS

"To Hal / You're wonderful / Hope to work with you again / Love / Beverly Sanders."

Beverly Sanders (born September 2, 1940) is an American actress, comedian, and voice artist. She was born in Hollywood, California.

Sanders studied acting in New York with Lee Strasberg's Actor Studio. Married to a studio bass musician, Beverly's adopted daughter is named Laura.

Sanders, who often plays the stereotypical blonde and nice moms and girlfriends to the stars, especially on TV, occasionally supported both Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper in their respective sitcoms and in several TV movies with Moore.

She also starred in her own one-woman show on stage entitled Yes Sir, That's My Baby in the late 90s. She began writing the play after taking a UCLA writing class. The show details her failure to conceive a baby at 40+ years of age, and then the later frustrations of the adoption process.

Sanders, who has appeared in over 300 commercials, is best recognized as the ever-pleasant Louise in the Arm & Hammer Baking Soda spokesperson for nearly a decade.

TO HAL BATES FROM SIMON OAKLAND

"To Hal / Best / Simon"

Photograph from the files of Julian F. Myers, Inc. public relations agency, Beverly Hills, CA.

Simon Oakland (August 28, 1915 – August 29, 1983) was an American actor of stage, screen, and television.

Oakland made his film debut as the "tough, but compassionate" journalist who speaks up for Susan Hayward's Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! in 1958. Oakland would wind up playing this type often over the course of his career.

He went on to play a long series of tough guy types, usually in positions of authority, most notably in Psycho, in which he plays the psychiatrist who explains Norman Bates's multiple personality disorder. He also appeared in West Side Story, Bullitt, and the science fiction television series Kolchak: The Night Stalker. He made two guest appearances on CBS's Perry Mason, both times as the murder victim. He also appeared in the syndicated crime drama, Decoy, starring Beverly Garland. Oakland appeared once each on the CBS western, Dundee and the Culhane and in another syndicated crime drama series, Sheriff of Cochise, starring John Bromfield. Oakland played General Thomas Moore on NBC's Baa Baa Black Sheep, starring Robert Conrad.

Simon Oakland died of cancer, one day after his 68th birthday (29 August 1983), in Cathedral City, California.

TO HAL BATES FROM BOBBIE GENTRY

"To Hal with love and good wishes - Bobbie"


Roberta Lee Streeter (born July 27, 1944), professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter notable as one of the first female country artists to compose and produce her own material. Her songs typically drew on her Mississippi roots to compose vignettes of the Southern United States.

Gentry rose to international fame with her intriguing Southern Gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe" in 1967. The track spent four weeks as the No. 1 pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967 and earned her Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968.

Gentry charted eleven singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and four singles on the United Kingdom Top 40. Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. After her first albums, she had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. She lost interest in performing in the late 1970s, and since has lived privately in Los Angeles.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES WITH MORE MEN IN SUITS

Hard to make out the name tags. Left to right: ?, Gerry Brown (?), Hal Bates, Al Coombes, Bruce Nevens, Jack ....hurst (?). Photograph by Peter C. Borsari.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES AT THE EXCHANGE CLUB #2

An event at the Exchange Club (Pasadena chapter) in Altadena, California. That's Bob Walsh again sitting next to Hal Bates. Others unknown, date unknown.

Any information about the Exchange Club appreciated. Apparently they are not an extant organization anymore.

[NEW SERIES] HAL BATES WITH RONALD REAGAN AND WHOLE BUNCH OF MEN IN SUITS

Date unknown but location appears to be offices of KABC-TV. Hal Bates far right; ubiquitous Bob Walsh second from left.