Shooper Dooper
Check out Friday's Eye on Entertainment where I got to kick it with "The Shoopster" Bakersfield's 29 Eyewitness News Anchor Rusty Shoop.
Rusty was a good sport for the feature I did on news anchors in light of our "Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy" movie coverage. Although I give The Shoopster the Ron Burgundy treatment in the piece, the guy who actually kept telling me over and over again that he was the resident "Ron Burgundy" at KBAK was the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news anchor Kurt Rivera. We had a great little moment involving him forgetting his make up for the 6 p.m. broadcast with Lynda Halligan.
Here's what got cut from the piece:
During a commercial break, news anchor Kurt Rivera keeps referring to himself as “Ron Burgundy.”
He asks a co-worker to get a bottle out and fill it with water.
“The one in my black bag,” he says, the same bag he tossed open earlier frantically to get out his makeup before rushing onto KBAK’s 29 Eyewitness News set next to his co-anchor Lynda Halligan.
“As Ron Burgundy I have the authority to direct people,” he jokes, before adding that he would never order anyone around.
“It doesn’t fly now,” he says wistfully smiling, “but back in the day!”
Rivera is laughing now, but he'd just barely adverted a crisis.
It was almost 15 minutes to air time and the anchorman was in the newsroom, but his makeup was not.
For most men, this would not be an issue, as most men don’t have makeup kits. But then most men don’t have to anchor the 6 and 11 p.m. broadcasts.
It’s the high definition broadcast that concerns 39-year-old Rivera the most. Ever since the station switched over to broadcasting in high-definition TV he’s had to make sure that he’s made up and ready to go every time.
Though his olive skin is actually quite lovely, lightly freckled and smooth in person, the camera will find every pore, every freckle, every line and turn his angular face into a sharply detailed topography map.
He’s got to have his makeup and the clock is winding down.
“He made it,” Rivera shouts while in a mad dash back to his desk, bag in one hand, script in the other. Two pages of it go flying. He quickly dumps out his foundation, make-up sponge and brush on the floor.
In a flash he is sitting next to Halligan, slapping on his make-up, just barely beating the clock.
“My wife always nags me. She can tell when I didn’t have time to put my makeup on. She’s my makeup critic,” said Rivera after the broadcast. “But the mirrors are so small. It’s all dusty and stuff. I probably could do a better job putting it on. You don’t grow up learning how to do makeup when you’re a guy.”
Rivera then smiled and said gruffly, “I’m a man’s man.”
Bonus: In further evidence of that whole six degrees of seperation thing. Lynda Halligan (back in her entertainment industry days) came THIS CLOSE to being a stand-in for "Anchorman" star Christina Applegate when the actress was on Fox's "Married With Children." She lost the job to a chick who looked just like her.
Rusty was a good sport for the feature I did on news anchors in light of our "Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgundy" movie coverage. Although I give The Shoopster the Ron Burgundy treatment in the piece, the guy who actually kept telling me over and over again that he was the resident "Ron Burgundy" at KBAK was the 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. news anchor Kurt Rivera. We had a great little moment involving him forgetting his make up for the 6 p.m. broadcast with Lynda Halligan.
Here's what got cut from the piece:
During a commercial break, news anchor Kurt Rivera keeps referring to himself as “Ron Burgundy.”
He asks a co-worker to get a bottle out and fill it with water.
“The one in my black bag,” he says, the same bag he tossed open earlier frantically to get out his makeup before rushing onto KBAK’s 29 Eyewitness News set next to his co-anchor Lynda Halligan.
“As Ron Burgundy I have the authority to direct people,” he jokes, before adding that he would never order anyone around.
“It doesn’t fly now,” he says wistfully smiling, “but back in the day!”
Rivera is laughing now, but he'd just barely adverted a crisis.
It was almost 15 minutes to air time and the anchorman was in the newsroom, but his makeup was not.
For most men, this would not be an issue, as most men don’t have makeup kits. But then most men don’t have to anchor the 6 and 11 p.m. broadcasts.
It’s the high definition broadcast that concerns 39-year-old Rivera the most. Ever since the station switched over to broadcasting in high-definition TV he’s had to make sure that he’s made up and ready to go every time.
Though his olive skin is actually quite lovely, lightly freckled and smooth in person, the camera will find every pore, every freckle, every line and turn his angular face into a sharply detailed topography map.
He’s got to have his makeup and the clock is winding down.
“He made it,” Rivera shouts while in a mad dash back to his desk, bag in one hand, script in the other. Two pages of it go flying. He quickly dumps out his foundation, make-up sponge and brush on the floor.
In a flash he is sitting next to Halligan, slapping on his make-up, just barely beating the clock.
“My wife always nags me. She can tell when I didn’t have time to put my makeup on. She’s my makeup critic,” said Rivera after the broadcast. “But the mirrors are so small. It’s all dusty and stuff. I probably could do a better job putting it on. You don’t grow up learning how to do makeup when you’re a guy.”
Rivera then smiled and said gruffly, “I’m a man’s man.”
Bonus: In further evidence of that whole six degrees of seperation thing. Lynda Halligan (back in her entertainment industry days) came THIS CLOSE to being a stand-in for "Anchorman" star Christina Applegate when the actress was on Fox's "Married With Children." She lost the job to a chick who looked just like her.
posted by Danielle Belton @ 12:08 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home