Sunday, July 29th, 2007
Zindlerdammerung
Marvin Zindler is dead. The TV reporter famed for his exposure of the Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange, Texas in 1973 succumbed to pancreatic cancer just 12 days shy of his 86th birthday.
Zindler’s Friday-night restaurant reports were the one bright spot of the two-and-a-half years I spent in the hellhole known as The Woodlands, Texas. They were clever and entertaining, and I was always excited whenever the words “Sliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime in the ice machine!” boomed out across the airwaves. Fun times.
You’ll be missed, Marv. Let us know if there’s any slime in heaven’s ice machines, OK?
