I didn’t intend to do any additional post about being on MSNBC, but after various emails it became a necessity. We’ve gotten lot of emails saying how on the show TMV looked like he was about 6 feet tall, 200 lbs, with broad shoulders — a big man in length…and width.
In reality, TMV is five foot 2, 145 lbs, with shoulders he’d rather not talk about. Two weeks ago, while doing a beauty contest stage show with celebrity look alikes, the country’s top Robert DeNiro look alike walked over to TMV who was standing in the door and said: “Hey: stand up….”
This is actually an aspect that’s quite fascinating, in this media age. Video demos of TMV are quite accurate. But the TV camera, doing a frontal shoot, creates an entirely different perception, creating its own reality. The GOOD NEWS is I could have walked out of that studio with a crowd outside screaming “Let’s kill that fat guy who was just on TV!” — and they would have gone right past me…
The above picture which shows TMV interviewing Dennis Kucinich gives you a better idea of what he looks like.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.