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Jim Spagg Press History
Jim Spagg, whose nudity riled state, dies
Jim Spagg, who thought of himself as an artist but who attracted attention from angry parents and shocked legislators a decade ago for prancing naked on cable-access television, died Saturday at his Portland home.
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Painter, philosopher, clown, politician, nudist, and cable access firebrand James Spagnola, much better known as Jim Spagg, died in his Portland home Saturday. Spagg's long-running late-night cable television show had a loyal cult following in Portland for years. Thousands of Portlanders of all types stumbled across intimate videotape of Spagg's genitalia while flipping through the channels late at night. His show also featured a never-ending supply of young women who danced naked while Spagg played air guitar on a piece of plywood in the rough shape of a guitar. Canned phrases such as "jumping geehorsey farts" and "yowza! wowza! bowza!" danced across the screen in random order and rainbow colors
Jim's extensive press history began with an article in the Cleveland Press in 1973.Since then, Jim Spagg has appeared in countless newspaper articles, radio & television appearances and personal appearances around the country. To some, Jim Spagg is an outrageous loud mouth, to others, he is a living representation of freedom and 1st Amendment Rights. Either way you feel about Jim Spagg, He has spent his life protecting our freedom through living art. One time, a newspaper, in Maple Heights, Ohio did a story about Jim Spagg touting, "The World's Greatest Artist". It was a play on words, when Jim Spagg, as an artist, chose the planet Earth as a work of found art. This is creativity at it's finest. Jim Spagg is creative.You might want to check the Sunday edition of the Oregonian of March 5th, 1995. This article, on four pages of the NW Living section and many color pictures, ( one of which gaces this web site) gave much information on Jim Spagg and his public access show. The reason they did this was that so many people all over the state of Oregon had heard about "the man who dances around naked", they knew it would be voraciously read. Jim's favorite headline in a story about him is "Viewers Are Infuriated". (By Jim Spagg)
UPDATED: R.I.P. Jim Spagg
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Comments about Jim Spagg.
Controversial Portland Nudist Dies At 64
Jim Spagg Was Running For Mayor
PORTLAND -- A Portlander who created controversy by appearing nude on his local cable-access show has died.
Jim
Spagg, 66 - Portland's favorite pervert
Posted on May 9, 2004 at 10:48:57 PM by Uncle Pervy
Jim Spagg, who thought of himself as an artist but who attracted attention
from angry parents and shocked legislators a decade ago for prancing naked
on cable-access television, died Saturday at his Portland home.
Nude, Lewd--and Screwed
Cable TV "naked guy" booted off the air.
BY LAUREN DAKE
05/21/03
A week after broadcasting a show in which he defecated on camera, Jim Spagg--host of Jim Spagg's Nude Scene and Jim Spagg's Naked Truth--has been suspended from Portland Cable Access TV for a year. The official reason? Copyright infringement.
"He simply took property and used it as his own, against our rules and federal law," says Carl Kucharski, PCA's executive director.......
Spag me, baby
Jim Spagg, the impressario of televised nudity and [only in Portland, Oregon] a candidate for mayor died over the weekend, of leukemia.
Say what you will about his vile and voyeuristic cable-access television program, The Spag made his own indelible mark. To the many who knew him, he was an odd, gentle and, yes occasionally puerile, naturalist. But he had something of a nice streak about him, which his innumerable friends testified to frequently. More often than not, his friends had to walk through a waist-high pile of bile to defend him, especially in local cable-access television, where he made his "mark."
From
World Wide Pablo 05/10/04
Happy Doodles
Before his death this past Saturday, Jim Spagg was best known for baring it all on late-night cable-access shows. For years, Spagg hosted several different TV programs--most of which had no central premise other than showing him and friends naked. He often said his show was for "radical yowza bowza wowza left-wing liberals," and closed his shows with his signature exclamation, "Happy doodles!"
