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In reply to the discussion: Radio host Art Bell dies at 72 [View all]BumRushDaShow
(138,173 posts)Long time Art Bell/Coast-to-Coast listener - mostly because my Mom was. Lost track a bit when he had moved to the Philippines and then came back and was briefly back on the air again.
Sure much of the material discussed on Coast-to-Coast (no matter who was rotating host) was "out there", but the show was entertaining for the graveyard time slot listeners, competing with Jim Bohannon (who replaced Larry King's long stint in graveyard talk, where King eventually moving to CNN to do similar CT topics back in the day). It grabbed the audiences who used to watch Nimoy's "In Search Of..." or any of the iterations of Orson Welles' "Nostradamus".
What sortof cracked me up was the fact that he lived in Pahrump and anyone who was a fan of the film "Mars Attacks!" knows how that town was featured in the movie. I never realized it was a real place until I found out that Art Bell lived on a ranch there.
R.I.P.