Talk:Art Bell/Archive 1

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Pai Zadora as guest host? Can someone cite the reference for this? I have been unable to confirm this from any official sources yet the reference keeps coming back. So far as I know, Ms. Zadora has never appeared on Coast as a guest, much less as a guest host.

Worker In The Light was written by George Noory, not Art.

was the Area 51 "shootdown" on April 1?

Just reverted edit from anonymous IP (4.228.255.239). Art's first retirement date was set from 2001 to 1998 - is this true? Refs please. Richard Hoaglan was added to famous guest lists - this paragraph explicitly mentions "non-paranormal"-oriented guests. Note that I'm not against the additions and changes per-se, just the quality :) . --NightMonkey 18:56, Nov 27, 2004 (UTC)

Art's son is NOT a public figure and naming him gratutiously in this manner is an invasion of privacy under Nevada state law.
 * Preposterous. Please give a citation for this claim. Quatloo 01:02, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Regarding Art's decision to move to the Philippines. With all the bad blood as a result of the circulated hoax Filipino letter, Art is moving to the Philippines in separatist territory controlled by the muslim terrorist group Abu Sayyaf to host a nationally broadcast radio show. Only a matter of time before Art is kidnapped and held hostage by Abu Sayyaf. I for sure will place a bet on (online betting site removed) in regard to Art's latest publicity stunt to get himself killed. The FCC should investigate Clear Channel Radio as willing coconspirators to a bunch of terrorists. Hal Regarding Heaven's Gate an academic named Courtney Brown Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University told Art Bell that a scientist dicovered the companion to Hale Bopp. Courtney Brown also explained that he remote viewed the passangers and that the aliens are good natured as opposed to the other kind.

Article states: "Bell is one of only a few talk show hosts who do not screen calls." I'm pretty sure that he does now screen calls. I seem to recall hearing callers refer to the screener lately. Can anyone confirm or deny? kidbritish 02:41, 28 November 2006 (UTC)


 * The producer has been taking names ever since the show moved to the Phillipines, and since it came back. Depending on the topic, they may ask what topic the caller wants to talk about, but sometimes they don't. Calwatch 08:02, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Kidnapping
Why has the kidnapping of Art Bell's son been completely removed from this article? It happened, and was one of the reasons he signed off the air. For a bunch of wacko conspirators, you might think that they would find this odd. --Xephael 17:18, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Siegel or Seigel
Which is right? Is it Mike Siegel or Seigel? The red link has one spelling and then about 2 sentences later is the other spelling. Dismas 09:31, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

hey you idiots. get the page fixed! I'm serious.
 * fix it yer damn self, that's kinda the point of wikipedia... what are you serious about by the way? --StarkRG 08:56, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Dave Rabbit
I removed this edit by User:Kaibabsquirrel :

Indeed, there has been some speculation whether Art Bell was the pseudonymous "Dave Rabbit" who operated the infamous Radio First Termer pirate station in Saigon, but there has been no confirmation of this from Bell nor anyone else.)

Speculation from who? A personal home page isn't enough. And since there's been no confirmation, then there's no reason for it to be in an encyclopedia. Sorry. If credible sources are found, then we can Talk about it here. --NightMonkey 04:18, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * The speculation was from the Radio First Termer home page at, which I guess is just somebody's personal page and doesn't count as speculation. Several other web sites echo the speculation (example, , most of which cite the Radio First Termer home page as their source and so I guess aren't really speculation.  Delete it if you want, I don't care at this point. Kaibabsquirrel 06:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Racist letter?
Filipinos are circulating a racist letter alledgely written by Mr. Bell. - Sparky 22:11, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

This has a whole section in the article already, just look for the big headline. Lambertman 18:55, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Sep 11 1997
Boy that takes me back: I was an overnight board-op at an affiliate station and was rather freaked out when everything went down. :) Anyway, should this section be moved to the Coast to Coast AM article? Seems like it belongs more over there. Lambertman 18:55, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

-Agreed, this would be a great addition.

Airyn Ruiz Bell
I'm not sure if it's appropriate for Airyn's name to have "Irene", including quotes, preceeding it. Not to be pedantic, but Art pointed out in his show that her name, Airyn, is pronounced as "Irene" in the Phillipines which would make the addition homonymly redundant. He further pointed out however, that to his mind her name seemed like it should be pronounced as "Erin" which I think is a reasonable assumption to make. Perhaps rather than placing "Irene" before her name (pronounced Irene), including parenthesis would be more appropriate.

Also, I'll be adding the couple to this:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_relationships_with_age_disparity --Xiaou 21:41, 16 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Try not to add too much unnecessary detail about these breaking events...theres really plenty as it is. We've got what he's done, his wife's name, his plans to continue hosting, etc. We don't need various pronounciations of the girl's name, descriptions of his new house/ISDN setup, or which specific prized posession he's got up for sale each week.  That stuff is best left to fan pages.  --72.224.153.104 05:20, 19 April 2006 (UTC)


 * how old is she?(was she at time of marrige),anybody know? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.46.49.98 (talk) 21:48, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Why is there a section called "Marriages"
Typical biographies do not have such a section. Here it does not add any usful information about Bell. The only marriages that had any impact on Bell's career are the last two. And they are talked about plenty elsewhere in the article. Could the Marriages section just be removed? KarenAnn 13:36, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You are incorrect when you state that typical biographies do not have such a section. Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor come to mind. I see no problem with the "marriages" section in the Art Bell article, especially since, as you noted yourself, the last two have had an impact on his career. wikipediatrix 16:35, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * O.K., but the relevant marriages are covered aplenty in other sections, and it is usually (from on editing standpoint) best to move through an article as smoothly as possible, avoiding redundant material. KarenAnn 03:28, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Other work

 * Art did voice work on the new video game Prey, as himself on a radio broadcast, much like CtC. He even says "Good even ing from the High Desert," and the audio segments featuring his voice work is done in his signature radio host style.

Broken link
Under Broadcasting Career the link http://arnewsline.wb7tjd.org/news1389-2004-03-26.txt doesn't work, at least when I try it. "Server not found" message. GBYork 20:53, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Jr II?
The article state Bell's father as "Arthur Bell, Jr II". Isn't that redundant? Aren't most Juniors only called 'Junior' until they have a son of their own with a shared name, at which time, they re-name themselves 'the Second'? (Likewise, 'Senior' would be just plain 'Arthur Bell', until his son is born, when he becomes 'Senior', then when his identically named grandson is born, he would become 'the First'...) So is his dad 'Junior', or 'the Second'? (I would guess 'the Second', since the subject of this article is 'the Third'.) Ehurtley 20:05, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Neglect of his broadcast quality
There eems to be so much emphasis on trivial aspects in this article, while the (to me) brilliance of his commecial instincts in forming Coast-to-Coast AM as weil as the quality of his broadcasts seems to be neglected. Mattisse(talk) 03:53, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Children
Does anyone know why he talks about his newest child as his only child, and never mentions his son lately? --70.143.52.3 02:23, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Dark Skies
Added information about his appearance on the show Dark Skies, in the Other subsection of the Media section. I am not good at external links and footnotes, but the information is on IMDB, it was in Episode 9. Boomcoach 15:12, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

Chopped 'reputation'
I chopped this section on the grounds that usenet, AOL forums and unspecified blogs fail the Reliable Source & Notability tests.
 * Some critics see Bell as a charlatan, and some guests have been criticized as cranks or quacks; Coast-to-Coast is subject to frequent ridicule, criticism and mockery on the usenet group [news:alt.fan.art-bell alt.fan.art-bell], in the AOL chatroom "Beyond Belief", the Undernet chatroom #coast2coast (among others), and on some blogs.

Image of Art Bell
OK, I uploaded the image that was present within this article for some time, but has now been deleted as it apparently didn't qualify for Fair Use, as a promotional image of a celebrity, as it was deemed "replaceable" by a free image. (I don't remember if I got it from this site, but here's the old image. So, does anyone have a good quality free image of Art? Cheers! --NightMonkey 00:24, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Why don't you ask him for one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.35.112 (talk) 21:11, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Awkward Sentence
This article currently contains the sentence:

This is because during their Internet dating Art imprinted the spelling of her name with that pronunciation.

I find this wording extremely awkward and suggest changing it to:

This is because during their Internet dating Art misinterpreted the pronunciation of her name.

Or simply:

This is because during their Internet dating Art mispronounced her name.

--Skb8721 (talk) 01:55, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Citations & References
See Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the  tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 09:21, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Allegation of being a freemason and world government advocate?
At least that is being claimed in this article. __meco (talk) 09:35, 19 November 2008 (UTC)


 * If you can find a statement in a reliable source to establish that, it might well be worthy of inclusion. Nevard (talk) 13:17, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Move back to Manila...
At the time of this post (05-18-09), Bell had once again moved to the Philippines. Does anyone know when this occurred, or why? This info needs to be incorporated into the article.--Batman144 (talk) 19:14, 18 May 2009 (UTC)