Television: Marty's Morgue

Marty Faye, 35, is a short, brash Chicago pitchman who believes that the surest way to make good in TV is to get the people to hate you. In his two months as proprietor of Marty's Morgue, a local interview show over Chicago's station WBKB. he has cheerfully managed to provoke daily threats of violence; in addition, he has brought down around his balding head the wrath of the town's teenagers, who bombard him with up to 1,00 letters a week for butchering their sacred cows on the air.

Faye begins his late-hour (11:30 p.m.),...

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