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From Raynold Cabral, June 25, 2016
Just sitting here in my condo in Florida on Saturday morning watching TV, and the thought came to my mind wondering if my friends were still around. I looked it up and came across your website which was nice and reminded me of the enjoyment when I had the pleasure of styling Truman Taylor's hair and many others others from channel 6 including: Mann Reed, Sal, Bob Basset,George who played Bozo amongst other things he did, the cameramen, and Tony Costa, who did the Portuguese Show and his guests until The End. An auto accident, also around that time, caused me to close my men's salon. However, I continue styling Truman's hair, even after Channel 6 moved to Providence, until such time I moved to Florida. Truman was a great human being, a kind person who didn't have too much to say. But there were lots of laughs and we always enjoyed a good joke. Last time I tracked him down he was driving down to Florida Keys, and he was writing an article for the Providence newspaper. I still miss that entire group and the lots of great laughs. May the good Lord bless them all for all the enjoyment they gave us! Raynold Cabral |
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"Raynold's Hairstylists"
From Frank Clynes, Sept 6, 2016 It's my recollection Ray's shop was on William Street I was one of his regular patrons when it was still a barber shop. I figured when his title changed, the price was going to increase. Celebrities have hair stylists, photographers have barbers. He offered an additional service for the follicule challanged. I did a film feature of Ray remaking Bob Bassett with an artificial beard and moustashe. Because Truman's hair never seemed to change, Bassett suggested Taylor paid Ray big bucks, just to make clipping noises around his head. Ben Schneider did Bozo and George Allan did Dialing for Dollars. George told me the toughest day of the year for his show was April Fools Day. They've all gone off the air. Tony Costa produced The Portuguese Around Us, and Francisco Rebello produced Passport to Portugal. That one was my favorite. I shot two features in the Acores and Portugal for his show. From Jim Donnelly, Sept 6, 2016 I ran camera for Tony Costa's show. The crew joked and called it "Portuguese Surround Us." It was only after I left and began working for Cable TV that I realized how much Portuguese culture was "around us."
None of the directors for Tony Costa's show spoke Portuguese, so they had a bell in the upstairs control room wired all the way to a foot pedal under Tony Costa's desk. He would ring it a few seconds before the end of a bit, so the director would roll in the next film. There was no wireless anything in those days, and no video editing, so taped shows were essentially taped live. I guess if bad errors were made, they could back up the 2-inch tape and resume production. |
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