Retired Anchorman Mort Crim Stays Classy in Midst of Barrage of Media Attention

It’s been fun to read the media coverage of 78-year-old former Philadelphia and Detroit TV news anchor Mort Crim. Thanks to a recent Rolling Stone interview with Will Ferrell, the man who helped inspire not the mustache or the “Stay classy” catchphrase but rather the smooth, authoritative delivery has been back in the limelight, culminating with Sunday’s New York City premiere of Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.

Per Julie Miller of the Detroit Free Press, Crim had a great line ready when he finally, for the first time, met Ferrell at this weekend’s NYC premiere:

“I walked up to him at the party that went on afterward,” Crim said Monday from New York.

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