The Backstory: The Tragedy That Inspired Will Ferrell’s Anchorman Flicks

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Jessica Savitch had a dramatic rise... and an even more dramatic fall in the network news business of the 1970s and ’80s. It’s a shocker! But her tragic story oddly inspired Will Ferrell to do the movie Anchorman: The Rise and Fall of Ron Burgundy. Here’s the backstory!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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