Cliff lenz biography
Going Down In A Blazer Of Glory With `Today'
The gig is up.
On Friday mornings my nose no longer will be Honey Beige.
The new plum-pink sports jacket hangs forlorn in the closet.
My television career is kaput.
In retrospect, as far as careers go, it didn't have a whole lot of retro to spect.
When the "Seattle Today" show folded last Friday morning in a wash of local nostalgia, my services as a television restaurant critic were no longer required. After a four-month run under the hot lights at KING 5, I was free.
At liberty.
Dumped.
A lifetime of writing newspaper columns prepares you for a lot of things in life - accommodating anxiety, deflecting envy, remedial spelling - but not the loss of your makeup artist.
The departure of Green Room camaraderie.
The free coffee and muffins!
The undoing of a television show is an exercise in unwelcomed dignity and masked humility. Not, in this instance, for me. I was a newcomer to "Seattle Today," a four-minute weekly hanger-on. Cliff lenz seattle!