Keith offers a mix of entertainment, local news and events, chats with community movers and shakers, plus pontification on politics. Among the regular features are "The Quiz" (modeled after Paul Harvey's "The Rest Of The Story"), "The Calendar" (with things that show up on Keith's calendar that may not show up on yours), "This Day In History" (plus "The Oldest Living Person On Wikipedia Celebrating A Birthday Today") and on Fridays it is "The News Of The Weird". Regular guests include Tom Martin of the Bookplate & Kent Co. Democratic Party on Tuesdays; the Traditional Native Wednesday with commissioner Billy Short; Third Voice Thursdays with "Warrior" Bob Kramer, and our Gadfly Friday with Ron Jordan.

Q...This candy maker was born in York County, Pennsylvania on a dairy farm. As an adult, he moved to Hershey, Pennsylvania where he had a prosperous job on a dairy farm owned by the Hershey Company until the farm was closed by the company. After a brief move to Spring Grove, Pennsylvania, he moved back to Hershey working for the Hershey Company. He kept experimenting with candies in his basement and in 1923 he started his own candy company eventually building a new home and factory. In 1928, he came up with the peanut butter cup and originally he sold his candies on consignment to retail stores but by 1935, he was a huge success. By World War II because of economic concerns and a scarce supply of materials, he concentrated solely on his peanut butter cups which was his most popular candy. This candy maker died eight days shy of his 77th birthday in 1956. In 1963, his company was sold to the Hershey Company but is maintained as a subsidiary company because it is not unionized like the main Hershey Company. Who was this candy maker? A...H. B. Reese

Q...This entertainer was born in Terre Haute, Indiana and acquired his nickname when he auditioned for a Dayton, Ohio radio show in 1932. He started his musical career at the age of 15 playing drums in a speakeasy band and he played a variety of instruments including drums, piano and guitar on the jazz band circuit. He formed his own band in the 1930s and eventually traveled to Oakland, California with his band where he played piano at a club there. He appeared in a 1950 episode of the Phil Harris/Alice Faye Radio Program and in 1952, he left Oakland for Los Angeles. In 1953, he made his first film appearance in “Meet Me At The Fair” and made a living as a musician and doing bit parts in movies and television. In 1970, he began a career as a voice actor providing the voice of Scat Cat in the Disney animated movie “The Aristocats” which led to voicing Meadowlark Lemon in the animated version of “the Harlem Globetrotters”, Jazz the Autobot in “The Transformers’, and the title character in “Hong Kong Phooey”. He also appeared in four movies with friend Jack Nicholson; “The King Of Marvin Gardens”, “The Fortune”, “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest”, and “The Shining” and he made several other films in the 1970s and early 1980s. Among his numerous television appearances, his most visible and well known role was as Louie the Garbage Man on “Chico And The Man”. He passed away from pneumonia and lung cancer in 1986 at the age of 76. Who was this entertainer?
A...Scatman Crothers

Q...This actor was born in Dorking, Surry, England and was raised in a very
strict religious household as his father was a minister. He was educated at the
choir school of All Saints in London and he played Brutus in his school’s
production of Julius Caesar at the age of 9. Later he attended St. Edward’s
School in Oxford as a teenager where he began appearing in school drama
productions. It was there that his father decided that his son should be an
actor. At the age of 17 he attended a drama school and began performing at the
Birmingham Repertory Company. Although he appeared in a few films in his early
career, he was not enamored with the movies. His stage breakthrough was in Noel
Coward’s “Private Lives” in 1930 followed by Shakespeare’s “Romeo And Juliet” in
1935 alternating the roles of Romeo and Mercutio with John Gielgud. Later he
took on playing various Shakespearian roles becoming known as the best
Shakespearian actor of the 20th Century. As an actor/director, he starred in and directed three Shakespeare movies “Henry V” in 1944, “Hamlet” in 1948 and “Richard III” in 1955. Other Shakespeare roles in the cinema included Orlando in “As You Like It” in 1936 and the lead in “Othello” in 1965. Non-Shakespeare film roles included William Wyler’s “Wuthering Heights” in 1939, Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” in 1940, Stanley Kubrick’s “Spartacus” in
1960, Joseph L. Mackiewicz’s “Sleuth” in 1972, John Schlesinger‘s “Marathon Man“
in 1976 and Richard Attenborough‘s “A Bridge Too Far“ in 1977. He was also noted
for his television work including “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”, “The Merchant
Of Venice”, “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof”, “Brideshead Revisited” and “King Lear”. He
was the youngest actor to be knighted and he earned 12 Oscar nominations in his
career, winning two and was also nominated for nine Emmy awards winning five.
This actor passed away at the age of 82 in 1989 and the largest stage at
Britain’s National Theatre Company is named after him. Who was this actor?
A... Laurence Olivier

Q...This actor was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada and after
his parents’ divorce, he moved to Vallejo. California where he graduated from
Berkeley High School. He joined the Civilian Conservation Corps as a teenager
and also did some acting, making his stage debut at the age of 12 with a
Vancouver stock company. He began his professional acting career at the Pasadena
Playhouse in 1937 and he landed his first Broadway role in 1941 with “Crazy From
The Heat”. He became a contract player with RKO Pictures where he usually played
film noir villains, such as in “Raw Deal” in 1948. Among his best known film
roles were as an aggressive prosecutor in 1951’s “A Place In The Sun” opposite
Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Shelly Winters. He also played a
suspected murderer in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” in 1954 opposite James
Stewart and Grace Kelly. He also played reporter Steve Martin in “Godzilla, King
Of The Monsters’ in 1956. He also became a prolific radio and television actor
in the 1950s before landing the role of attorney Perry Mason from 1957 to 1966,
winning two Emmys in 1959 and 1961. Originally he auditioned for the role of
prosecutor Hamilton Burger but won the role when he auditioned for the
character’s creator Erle Stanley Gardner. After the show’s run, he played the
role of a wheelchair bound detective in “Ironside” from 1967 to 1975. Though the
show was on NBC, he refused to appear on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson”
due to Carson’s jokes about this actor’s weight during his monologues. Besides
his acting career, he also owned an orchid business as well as a vineyard with
his partner, and rumored lover, leaving him with most of his property after his
death in 1993 at the age of 76. Who was this actor?
A...Raymond Burr

Q...This comedian and actor was born in Chicago, Illinois and he graduated from
Theodore Roosevelt High School in Chicago in 1937. Initially he set out to be a
country music singer and appeared on the “National Barn Dance” on WLS radio.
During World War II, he enlisted in the Air Force and served as a flight
instructor in Oklahoma. In a 1969 appearance on “The Tonight Show with Johnny
Carson” he joked that there was not one Japanese aircraft that got past Tulsa.
After his discharge from the Air Force, he switched from singing to comedy. He
began doing a comedy show on NBC with his quiet, homespun style contrasting what
was seen on Milton Berle’s shows at the time. The show by the crew cut wearing
comedian featured guest artists and huge stars such as Jimmy Stewart, Henry
Fonda, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. He won an Emmy for “most outstanding new
personality” in 1955. His style usually featured a monologue about supposed past
situations as well as stories about his real life wife nicknamed “Spooky Old
Alice”. He featured a shy delivery and his humor would often feature tangled
digressions which were more important than the stories. Often he’d appear with a
guitar and would start to sing until getting sidetracked and the song would
never finish despite many starts and stops. He did a few films but his comedy
style didn’t fit well on the large screen. Later in his career, he was a regular
panelist on the game show “Hollywood Squares”. He passed away at the age of 71
in 1991. Who was this comedian?
A... George Gobel