"Henry Orient" starlet is ultraright winger

[BurtWorm]

I always liked Tippi Walker better anyway.

Merrie Spaeth, whose bio is below, works to spread Bushist disinformation during elections. She's behind the McCain slurs of 2000 and the Swift Boat Veterans for So-Called Truth.


http://www.spaethcom.com/about_executive.html


Merrie Spaeth has a unique background in media, government, politics, business and the entertainment industry. She is a pioneer in communication theory and executive training, and is acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent crisis management strategists in the country.

Merrie founded Dallas-based Spaeth Communications, Inc. in 1987. The Firm provides communication training and consulting for a wide range of companies and institutions. She is also the founder and president of the Institute for Strategic Communications, a not-for-profit foundation devoted to studying and reporting on business communication issues.

Merrie served as a White House Fellow and was assigned to FBI Director William Webster. She was the first Fellow and one of the first two women on the director’s staff. From the FBI, she served two years at the Federal Trade Commission as director of public affairs, and in 1983, President Ronald Reagan named her director of media relations at the White House. Merrie introduced satellite communications to the White House, and the electronic White House News Service. One newspaper headline said she “took the White House into the Space Age.”

She has worked in every area of print and electronic media. She’s been a radio and television talk show host, a reporter and writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Daily News, and a producer for ABC’s “20/20.” Family Weekly (later USA Today Sunday Magazine) for several years featured her weekly column on personal finance and investing called “Your Finances.” Her first book Marketplace Communication (MasterMedia) is a collection of her commentaries on “Marketplace,” the daily business show on public radio stations across the country. Today, she writes a weekly column for UPI on communication challenges facing businesses, and she is a regular commentator on public radio and television.

In the entertainment field, Merrie’s best-known work is “The World of Henry Orient” with Peter Sellers and Angela Lansbury. As a teenager, she appeared as a guest actress in several series. She later became a speechwriter for the legendary William S. Paley, chairman of CBS, Inc.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Too bad

She was quite good in The World of Henry Orient, but I remember seeing her as a guest on some other TV series in the 1960s, and she always seemed to play bright, but snarky characters. Maybe it was type casting. :shrug:

I believe that Tippi Walker grew up to become an artist.