TV & VIDEO - June 30, 1988
- Share via
Calling all Couch Potatoes! The Sonoma County Fair in Northern California is looking for a Great American Couch Potato to hang out for two weeks in August and sit in an exhibit, eat bad food, watch TV for 10 hours a day--and collect $1,000 for the privilege. Jane Engdahl, the fair’s special events coordinator, said the job has so far turned up more than 20 applicants. “It was just a crazy stunt. We were surprised anyone took it seriously,” said Engdahl, who concocted the admittedly half-baked idea as a promotional stunt for the fair. The applicants’ final test? To see if the king couch-tater can talk to the press and watch pro bowling simultaneously, Engdahl said.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
