This is sad news for me. As a former Associated Press writer-editor I had the pleasure of working with Bob Thomas, a legend not only at the AP but throughout the entertainment industry. Thomas died today of age-related illnesses at his Encino, CA home, his daughter Janet Thomas told the AP. He was 92. From the time he began working as an entertainment reporter for the wire service in 1944, he covered a record 66 Oscar ceremonies, interviewed stars ranging from Lucille Ball to Elizabeth Taylor, and also made his mark outside of entertainment, filing the bulletin that Robert F. Kennedy had been shot. (He actually joined the AP in 1943 with hopes of becoming a war correspondent, but left after a year after he was named the Fresno, CA correspondent. “It gets so damn hot in Fresno in the summer and nothing much ever happens there,” he once told a colleague, according to...
- 3/14/2014
- by DENISE PETSKI
- Deadline TV
Bob Thomas, the Associated Press veteran who presided over generations of Hollywood reporters, covered a record 66 Oscar ceremonies, and broke the news of Robert F. Kennedy's shooting, has died. He was 92. Thomas interviewed Hollywood legends from James Dean to Marilyn Monroe, from Walt Disney to Bob Hope. His daughter, Janet Thomas, told the AP that he died of age-related illnesses Friday at his home Encino, Calif. Also read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2014 (Photos) His visits to the Los Angeles AP offices in the mid-2000s were a delight to a generation of reporters covering stories like the Michael Jackson trial.
- 3/14/2014
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Bob Thomas, the tireless, longtime Associated Press reporter who kept the world informed on the comings and goings of Hollywood's biggest stars, from Clark Gable to Tom Cruise, died Friday. He was 92. Thomas died of age-related illnesses at his Encino, Calif., home, his daughter Janet Thomas said. A room filled with his interview subjects would have made for the most glittering of ceremonies: Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Groucho Marx and Marlon Brando, Walt Disney and Fred Astaire. He interviewed rising stars (James Dean), middle-aged legends (Humphrey Bogart, Jack Nicholson) and elder institutions (Bob Hope...
- 3/14/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
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