Older Long Article about Kasems in 1989

[rayshae3]

Older article about the Kasems from 1989
This is an article the previous thread “Rediscovery of Casey at the Mike in 1990’ referred to. This one was written in LA Times; and is from Sep. 25, 1989 and longer and somewhat more detailed than ‘Casey at the Mike’. But unlike that article, this one doesn’t have much on AT40 or CT40; it does include more about Kasems’ personal and fundraising activities circa ‘89. (…the most surprised piece I got from this LA times article was Jean pronouncing that Casey should run for CA governor?! see section: Kasem’s Flip Side)

Note: The long article is spread over three webpages.
Page 1: articles.latimes.com/1989-09-25/news/vw-160_1_jean-kasem
Page 2: articles.latimes.com/1989-09-25/news/vw-160_1_jean-kasem/2
Page 3: articles.latimes.com/1989-09-25/news/vw-160_1_jean-kasem/3

[woolebull]

^ This was an interesting article. The weird thing about the article is that, in my opinion, it actually made them look shallow. Lines describing Casey as, "a self-proclaimed American institution by mixing his corny material and crackly voice", really do not paint a great picture of Casey. Also having his wife liken him to Gandhi as they are living in the penthouse of a hotel in Beverly Hills doesn't do much for his rep, either.

[rayshae3]

Sept 27, 2013 23:05:59 GMT -5 woolebull said:

^ This was an interesting article. The weird thing about the article is that, in my opinion, it actually made them look shallow. Lines describing Casey as, "a self-proclaimed American institution by mixing his corny material and crackly voice", really do not paint a great picture of Casey. Also having his wife liken him to Gandhi as they are living in the penthouse of a hotel in Beverly Hills doesn't do much for his rep, either.

Casey himself appears to have taken a half-hearted jab at this LA Times article’s writer Nikki Finke in the later article the following year (already re-introduced in this site-forum a couple of weeks ago)
www.nytimes.com/1990/05/06/magazine/casey-at-the-mike.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
And I cut and paste Casey’s reaction here:
(When asked about a recent Los Angeles Times article that referred to him and Jean as trendy ''Penthouse Progressives,'' he says: ''I thought it was a nice, tongue-in-cheek thing. I'm glad she wrote about our fund-raiser. And it's good to have a little humor.'')

[mkarns]

The article got their ages slightly wrong; Casey was said to be 58, a year older than he actually then was.

Jean was said to have "claimed to be 32 for years", but in the same article said she volunteered at a Navy hospital at age 14, right after the Tet offensive. That was in 1968, putting her birthdate in 1954 (IMBD lists it as that) and thus making her 35 in 1989.

They may not have run their activities from the Beverly Wilshire suite for too much longer; Liberty Kasem was soon on the way, and according to other articles Casey wanted to raise their child in a full sized house, not a hotel suite. (From the NY Times 1990 article, their activism and ideals may have spilled over into baby naming; the Liberty name was decided on before birth, and if they had a boy he would have been named Justice.)

[woolebull]

So many (including this article) news sources made a big deal of his contract to do CT 40 for over 3 million per year in 1989. Does anyone know what he re-upped for in 1994?