On July 18, 2008, Ron Winchell opened another restaurant in North Las Vegas with plans to open up 2 more restaurants within a few months.

In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term " disc jockey " ( the combination of disc, referring to the disc records, and jockey, which is an operator of a machine ) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first announcer to become a star.

* After Runyon's death, his friend and fellow journalist, Walter Winchell, went on his radio program and appealed for contributions to help fight cancer, eventually establishing the “ Damon Runyon Cancer Memorial Fund ” to support scientific research into causes of, and prevention of cancer.

His column, ' Little Old New York ', concentrated on Broadway shows and gossip, as Winchell's had and, like Winchell, he also did show business news broadcasts on radio.

* Walter Winchell, newspaper and radio commentator, had a large home in Edgemont ( which still stands )

During a 1935 radio broadcast Walter Winchell incorrectly reported that Mae West had been married to Guido's brother, Pietro.

Walter Wincher, a writer for Accordion News magazine, corrected the error: " In a recent radio broadcast, Walter Winchell conveyed the information that Pietro Deiro had been married to Mae West for four years.

Upon her request to return to the United States to have her child born on American soil, the influential gossip columnist and radio host Walter Winchell lobbied against her.

Walter Winchell ( April 7, 1897 – February 20, 1972 ) was an American newspaper and radio gossip commentator.

In 1948 Winchell had the top rated radio show when he surpassed Fred Allen and Jack Benny.

Winchell feuded with New York radio host Barry Gray, whom he described as " Borey Pink " and a " disk jerk ".

In 1946, following the death from cancer of his close friend and fellow writer Damon Runyon, Winchell appealed to his radio audience for contributions to fight the disease.

Winchell accepted and became a professional at age 14, and was not related to radio commentator and gossip columnist Walter Winchell, whose real last name was Winschel.

Newspaper columnists of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Franklin Pierce Adams ( aka FPA ), Nick Kenny, John Crosby, Jimmie Fidler, Louella Parsons, Drew Pearson, Ed Sullivan and Walter Winchell, achieved a celebrity status and used their syndicated columns as a springboard to move into radio and television.

In some cases, such as Winchell and Parsons, their radio programs were quite similar in format to their newspaper columns.

The gossip columnist Walter Winchell was hired away from the New York Evening Graphic, given his own radio show and syndicated, in his prime — the 1940s and early 50s — in more than 2000 daily papers.

April Terri Winchell ( born on January 4, 1960 in New York City ) is an American actress, writer, voice actor, talk radio host, and commentator.

Winchell portrayed the " Glendale Federal Bank " lady – a cranky, cynical customer mollified by the service at her new bank – in a series of highly successful radio commercials, which Winchell wrote and directed herself.

Besides her many contributions to radio advertising as a performer, writer and director, Winchell also hosted a radio talk show program on KFI, a Los Angeles radio station.

) During March, Winchell was " banned for life " from KABC ( AM ) in Los Angeles at the behest of ABC radio host Bill O ' Reilly, over a retelling of an occurrence she dubbed " Croissantgate " ( KABC provided Bill O ' Reilly with croissants that were not fresh enough for his taste, causing a commotion at the station ).

January 20, 1953: Gossip columnist Walter Winchell broadcasts from Pennsylvania Avenue, near the White House, during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's inaugural parade.

In broadcasts of her KFI show, on her web diary and several other websites, April Winchell revealed that she and Kevin Spacey dated for a while after high school, during the run of the Gypsy musical, and went to New York together.

Barry Winchell, apparently motivated by anti-gay bias, President Clinton issued an executive order modifying the Uniform Code of Military Justice to permit evidence of a hate crime to be admitted during the sentencing phase of a trial.

Again echoing Winchell, Sullivan took on yet another medium in 1933 by writing and starring in the film Mr. Broadway, which has him guiding the audience around New York nightspots to meet entertainers and celebrities.

* 1999 – U. S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by a fellow soldier, Calvin Glover, for his relationship with transgender showgirl and former Navy Corpsman Calpernia Addams.

Frank Costello helped encourage this view by feeding Hoover, " an inveterate horseplayer " known to send Special Agents to place $ 100 bets for him, tips on sure winners through their mutual friend, gossip columnist Walter Winchell.

by I. G. Mudge ; 7th & 8th by C. M. Winchell )

Tigger was originally voiced by Paul Winchell.

Since 1990, he has been voiced by Jim Cummings ( who is also the voice of Pooh ), with the exception of Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin ( 1997 ), A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving ( 1998 ), and Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine For You ( 1999 ), in which Winchell reprised the role of Tigger.

* Peg Pete ( voiced by April Winchell ) is Pete's beautiful and sexy wife and the mother of both PJ and Pistol.

* Clarabelle Cow ( voiced by April Winchell )

The film tells the story of powerful newspaper columnist J. J. Hunsecker ( portrayed by Lancaster and clearly based on Walter Winchell ) who uses his connections to ruin his sister's relationship with a man he deems inappropriate.

* The Bugmaster ( voiced by April Winchell )-Her real name is Bianca Beakley, a former newscaster and Gosalyn's role model.

He was known as the King of the One Liners, a title bestowed upon him by columnist Walter Winchell.

Guinan returned to the screen with two sound pictures, playing slightly fictionalized versions of herself as a speakeasy proprietress in Queen of the Night Clubs ( 1929 ) and then Broadway Through a Keyhole ( 1933, written by Winchell ) shortly before her death.

Joining the Vaudeville News in 1920, Winchell left the paper for the Evening Graphic in 1924, and in turn was hired on June 10, 1929 by the New York Daily Mirror where he finally became the author of what would be the first syndicated gossip column, entitled On-Broadway.

Winchell and Magee successfully kept the secret of their nonmarriage, but were struck by tragedy with all three of their children.

The piece is about a ruthless journalist, J. J. Hunsecker, and is generally thought to be a thinly veiled commentary on the power wielded by Winchell at the height of his influence.

Winchell was parodied in the film Blessed Event ( 1932 ), where a Winchell-like character was played by actor Lee Tracy.

* The other definition is " any word or phrase compounded brought to the fore by the columnist Walter Winchell " or his imitators.

Some of the expressions for falling in love used by Winchell were: " pashing it ", " sizzle for ", " that way, go for each other ", " garbo-ing it ", " uh-huh "; and in the same category, " new Garbo, trouser-crease-eraser ", and " pash ".

Goofy Gopher ( voiced by Paul Winchell ) would pop out from a flower pot to deliver the occasional one-liner, joining Cuckoo, who popped out of the Cuckoo Clock, and Banana Vac ( an electric talking moose head ) as secondary characters.

** Voiced by Paul Winchell ( who also provided the voices of Goofy Gopher and Cuckoo ), and by Bill Farmer in the 2008 version

* Tigger ( voiced by Paul Winchell, and later Jim Cummings in season 3 )