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From: Mark Plus <>
Subject: Dave Pizer, "infomercial star"
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:02:18 -0700

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Love them or hate them? Our list of the top infomercial stars
Vanessa Richardson
Aug 25th 2008 at 6:00AM


If you've ever had insomnia, you've probably clicked on the TV to see a 
late-night infomercial. You know, a long-winded ad featuring a fast-talking 
person hawking anything from ab-crunching gizmos to vacuum machines. Opinions 
about infomercial pitchmen range from entertaining to annoying, but a select few
have stood the test of time to become celebrities in their own right - and some
sell millions of products. 


Love 'em or hate em', here's 13 of the most famous - or infamous - infomercial 
spokespeople who've sold Americans on their products as well as their pitches. .
. . 

Dave Pizer, Alcor Life Extension

In the 70s and 80s, Pizer and his Great Dane, Woofy, hawked car-seat covers in 
ads on Phoenix TV stations. Woofy is long gone, but Pizer is now dead serious 
about pitching cryogenics, the process of freezing humans so they can later be 
resuscitated and cured by medical advances in the future. He became 
vice-president at Alcor Life Extension, an infamous cryonics company in 
Scottsdale, and recently built a resort in Mayer, Arizona, the first step toward
the creation of a permanent cryonics community to be called Ventureville. Pizer
even plans to cryogenically freeze his current dogs. "A lot of people remember 
me from the commercials, but so what?" Pfizer told Phoenix magazine. "That's not
immortality. Not dying is immortality." 






"Around 2010 the world will be at a new orbit in history. . .  Life expectancy 
will be indefinite. Disease and disability will nonexist. Death wll be rare and 
accidental -- but not permanent. We will continuously jettison our obsolescence 
and grow younger." F.M. Esfandiary, "Up-Wing Priorities" (1981).

Mark Plus

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