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The film, Évocateur, examines the earliest days of wild talk television, led by over-the-top 1980s shouter Morton Downey, Jr, whose chain-smoking and barely veiled threats of violence against ...

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In the 1980s Morton Downey Jr. practically invented the world of trashy political talk shows. A new documentary, Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie, dissects his rise, his fall and his influence.

The in-your-face conservative talk show host is profiled in the Tribeca documentary, “Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie” Leah Rozen April 22, 2012 @ 12:24 PM ...

Show after show was devoted to this case, many featuring the Brawley advisor and then relatively unknown Al Sharpton. Downey beat that story to death and his ratings began to plummet, especially ...

But it wasn't until the 1980s that he became a household name with The Morton Downey Jr. Show. ... One show erupted into a fist fight between civil rights advocates Al Sharpton and Roy Innis.

Downey had guests such as Rep. Ron Paul and Alan Dershowitz, but his most (in)famous segment featured civil rights activist Roy Innes knocking down a heavyset Rev. Al Sharpton at a 1988 taping at ...

In this May 2, 1989 file photo, television talk show host Morton Downey Jr. appears in New York. CNN will air a film about the controversial talk show host, “Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr ...

Morton Downey Jr. is mostly forgotten. You can't blame anyone who doesn't want to preserve his sleazy memory, ... but his success helped create a space for lefty analogs such as Al Sharpton.

LOS ANGELES Morton Downey Jr., the abrasive, chain-smoking talk show host whose reign over "trash TV" in the 1980s opened the way for the likes of Jerry Springer, has died at 68. By Associated ...