Billy Mays

Barack Obama and Sarah Palin: Whose endorsement carries the most clout with U.S. voters these days?

2010-09-13 16:36:35

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'America's Got Talent': Jackie Evancho loses to Michael Grimm but wins a duet with her idol

2010-09-16 04:33:02

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Obama's tough choices

2009-09-30 00:00:00

It's easy to see why President Obama is so eager to fly off to Copenhagen to boost Chicago's chances of winning the Olympic Games. After all, if there's one thing at which he's already shown himself to be a master, it's selling. The country, however,...

Ticket Replay: Gov. Mark Sanford's case of damaging damage control

2009-12-27 16:34:37

Billy Mays dies at 50; boisterous TV pitchman

2009-06-29 00:00:00

As elegies go, it wasn't W.H. Auden. But one had to imagine that Billy Mays, the booming TV infomercial pitchman, would have appreciated the YouTube comment that, despite its misspellings, merged a farewell with yet another testimonial for one of his many...

Billy Mays' autopsy shows he died of heart disease, coroner says

2009-06-29 10:19:00

Billy Mays, who elevated the art of the television sales spiel to a fevered pitch, apparently died of a heart attack, Florida authorities said this morning. Preliminary autopsy results show that Mays suffered from hypertensive heart disease, Hillsborough...

Michael Hiltzik: As seen on TV!

2010-03-06 21:33:53

'Pitchmen'

2009-04-15 00:00:00

Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan sell things on television, famously. Mays, a burly man with a black beard and a voice that suggests incipient deafness, and could possibly cause it, is the more famous. But the cooler Sullivan -- who also produces and...

Dan Deacon's Ottobar show a love letter to Baltimore's music scene

2012-09-16 13:36:00

If electronic musician Dan Deacon is anything, he is fiercely loyal to his adopted hometown of Baltimore. Last night's sold-out show at the Ottobar wasn't so much a coronation; that ship has long since sailed. Rather, its familiar dance party feel,...

Sales techniques advance any career

2012-07-24 00:00:00

Society has its ideas about salespeople. But hold the dualistic images of Billy Mays and Willy Loman. "If you're a human being, then you're a salesperson," declares Sam Richter. So before you go thinking sales isn't for you — or that sales...

Fix It Pro

2009-07-08 00:00:00

Ed Maddern loves his truck, but not the scratches on his hood left by falling tree limbs.� To get rid of them, he asked us to try an old Billy Mays stand-by:� "Fix-It." The compound comes in a tube, which has only one warning on it.� The directions say...

EP Thom Beers on a Billy Mays-free 'PitchMen,' 'The Colony'

2010-06-22 10:22:06

The ghost : In a series with talking poop and religious figures as superheroes, no doubt some ghosts would pop up on this Comedy Central staple over the years. The most ghost-centric episode would no doubt be 2009's "Dead Celebrities," when the young Ike is haunted by the likes of Billy Mays ,

2011-10-28 12:19:29

Born: December, 1981 Didn't Die: October, 2001 or June, 2009 CNN reported news of Britney Spears death in a car crash in October 2001, only 4 months after she died in another car accident with her boyfriend Justin Timberlake.

2010-08-03 11:33:08

accounts and spreading elaborate tales of the stars supposed grisly deaths. One of the most popular fabrications appears to be a story about a chosen actor, such as Goldblum, who plunged to his death off a cliff while filming in New Zealand.

2009-10-19 12:38:15