![]() I’m wrapped like a python around the bedpost, I’ve got bedroom eyes, these BVDs will run you $29.95 and don’t put them in the dryer.” But actually, to me, they’re saying, “Hi. John Boston on lingerie models: These (women) are supposed to be emoting, “Hi. During the past two decades, he has skewered and lampooned nearly everyone and everything in and out of the Santa Clarita Valley. Bigfoot is the star of his first novel, “Naked Came the Sasquatch.” And Ebert, who could be mistaken for Bigfoot, has written one too many bad movie reviews, Boston says, probably because “he is up at the snack bar for as much as 80% of the film he’s supposed to be (watching).”īoston, 43, doesn’t stop with corpulent cinema critics. The bare-stomached dancer, it turns out, is an ex-girlfriend. Just down the street from Tattoo Heaven-one of numerous elite cultural institutions in greater Newhall-John Boston is talking about belly dancers, Bigfoot and his offer to pay $100 to anyone who will bring him the head of film critic Roger Ebert. John Boston in “Something Is Having Sex In My Microwave” Volunteer work has been the center of all social and creative activity in this valley, and for me it’s created lifelong friendships.Because our office microwave oven hasn’t been cleaned since the Truman Administration, bizarre creatures have mutated out of leftover food particles and now threaten all life as we know it. “I’ve always loved doing volunteer work in this community. “This came as a pleasant shock,” he said. Tony is still surprised by being chosen SCV Man of the Year 20 years ago. He and Reena taught “The Hustle” to the performers at the 2005 Boys & Girls Club “Disco Fever” Auction. Tony moved back to the Santa Clarita Valley in 1999, and has been working financial manager of the Cinema Park center and for A Chorus Line, his wife’s dancewear and costume business. He also served as an officer of the statewide California Press Association, 1989-96. He left The Signal that year and moved to San Francisco and where he worked for 10 years as Associate Publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle. ![]() In the late ‘80s, he served on the board of the SCV Historical Society, worked again with the Boys & Girls Club Auction. In 1985, Tony was honored as the Santa Clarita Valley Man of the Year, an honor that totally shocked him.ĭuring the ’80s, he served on the Board of the statewide California Newspaper Publishers Association, and was elected its president in 1986. Tony has three stepchildren, Eric, Beth and Jana, and a daughter Lindsey who was born in 1983, and is now working in China. They were married seven years later in 1982. ![]() In 1975, in an effort to improve his social skills, he took dance classes at Reena’s Dance Studio in Saugus. Newhall Memorial Health Foundation, on the board of United Way annual campaigns, the board of the SCV Historical Society, and was on the founding Board of the Friends of Hart Park. During the ’70s and ’80s he served on the board of the H.M. In both 19, he was named Boys & Girls Club Director of the Year, and he served as president of the Board in 1980. In 1972, placed in charge of fundraising and growing tired of luaus, he initiated the Boys Club Auction and chaired it for first two years, and continued chairing the live auction for the next 10 years. When he first arrived in Newhall in 1968, Tony joined the Board of Directors of the Newhall Boys’ Club (now SCV Boys & Girls Club). ![]() He was named general manager later that year, and then publisher in 1977. Working alongside his father, Scott Newhall, and with his twin brother Jon, who was then editor, Tony started as circulation manager. He returned to the Stanford Business School, but dropped out in 1968 and moved to Newhall to help his family with the fledging Newhall Signal newspaper. In spite of his local-sounding name, Tony Newhall is not a native of the Santa Clarita Valley. He grew up in Berkeley, attended Stanford University, then spent two years in the Peace Corps in Peru (1964-66). ![]()
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