TV & VIDEO - Aug. 14, 1987
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Sammy Davis Jr. also honored the NABET strike--by declining to appear on NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” Daily Variety reported. Davis’ manager said the singer told the show’s producer that he “has never crossed a picket line and that if he did it (Tuesday night), what he’d done in the past and whatever he said in the future would be invalid.” KNBC-TV weatherman Fritz Coleman subbed for Davis on the program.
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