Seems Jack Horkheimer of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium died Friday, age 72:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/08/20/1785361/star-gazer-host-jack-horkheimer.html
He ran a weekly five-minute TV show on Public Television to popularize naked-eye astronomy. He was a charismatic and certainly enthusiastic promotor of astronomy, and may have been an influence on my interest in astronomy.
From 1976 to 1997, the show was “Jack Horkheimer, Star Hustler.” In 1997, it was changed to “Jack Horkheimer, Star Gazer.” Certainly a lesser name, the “Star Gazer” name change came about with the rise of the internet… as people tried to search the net for the Star Hustler, they were directed to sites that were manifestly *not* about Jack Horkheimer. So, the name was changed to protect the innocent. Ah, well.
His final broadcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrC2OCLvbxE
Some people hustle pool,
Some people hustle cars,
But have you ever heard about
The man who hustles stars?
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horkheimer was a peado he was beeing sued for molestation at the time of his death . i think i might have precitate the suit as the plantif was my former boss i lost my job because one of jacks people was stalking me i complained to hr and they fired me for complaining about the great darrio rivaflecha.
Considering how easy it is to sue someone, I’ll let “innocent until proven guilty” stay in force here.
This surfaced after a quick google:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/famed-television-personality-sued-for-childhood-sexual-abuse-98024549.html
I note that there’s no year on this one — the copyright could be for the format — but it’s a lawsuit for the right thing. As you say, it’s easy to file a suit for something like that because we seem to love to damage the popular.
graig sued him a cople weeks before he died. he was a15year old runaway at the time i remember say some trhing about star hustler in front of him and he got very mad and started curseing at the time i didnt know why he hated jack now i do