My Mom treated me to an entertainment by Arthur Black.
He spoke just down the street at the Parksville City Hall. Black was on tour flogging his 11th book, Pitch Black.
After the late, great, beloved Peter Gzowski, no other personality was more the voice of Canadian radio to me than Arthur Black. He retired to Salt Spring Island, BC 11-years-ago — but he is still in fine form, as sharp and witty as ever.
I had forgotten that Black first introduced the comedian who played Father Guido Sarducci who went on to Saturday Night Live fame. The Stephen Colbert of the 1970s, Sarducci posed as gossip columnist and rock critic for a Vatican newspaper.
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Arthur Black in 2006 had his column in the Halifax Chronicle Herald
suspended for plagiarism. I too have one of his books.
I saw no further information about the gross contradiction of
journalistic ethics.
John Elliott