the film, Network, grew out of an actual incident when WOR Jean Shepherd exhorted his listeners to throw open their windows, stick out their heads, and shout, xcelsior!”, then he goes on to write:
hepherd took the unseen audience and let them see each other, but it Bob Fass who took that to the next level, giving it social and political meaning. Fass really opened the door and summoned the audience into the action. He used the mass media to amass a very real movement.
Early years
Bob Fass c.1966.(Photograph by Julius Lester)
Bob Fass was born June 29, 1933 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Fass received a scholarship to study acting with Sandy Meisner and Sidney Pollack at the Neighborhood Playhouse and was also a member of Stella Adler workshop. He appeared on stage in Brendan Behan The Hostage at Circle in the Square, The Education of Private