Friday, September 29, 2000
City will honor Anderson on visit
By Tim Bonfield
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Twenty years ago, Loni Anderson made a name for herself as the buxom sex kitten on WKRP in Cincinnati.
On Thursday, Ms. Anderson will receive a key to the city as she comes to town on more serious business.
Ms. Anderson is scheduled to speak about the dangers of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder — often known as “smoker's lung” — on Oct. 5 at St. Xavier High School, and on Oct. 7 at the Cincinnati Convention Center to open a three-day international conference of respiratory disease experts.
As part of the visit, Mayor Charlie Luken is expected to declare Oct. 5 “Loni Anderson Day” in Cincinnati.
Ms. Anderson, 54, has played a variety of movie and television roles. But she is best known for WKRP, which aired from 1978 to 1982, and her high-profile marriage to and divorce from actor Burt Reynolds.
Her return to Cincinnati is the third stop — after Miami and Dallas — of a speaking tour for the National Lung Health Education Program.
She will speak about smoking from personal experience — both her parents were heavy smokers who died of smoking-related emphysema and cancer.
“Growing up in St. Paul, Minn., she said her alarm clock in the morning was the sound of her father coughing,” said John Ruane, spokesman for Ms. Anderson's speaking tour.
Even during production years, WKRP cast members rarely came to Cincinnati. However, Ms. Anderson has regularly attended the Kentucky Derby in Louisville. She also made several local appearances in late 1995 to sign her memoir, My Life in High Heels.
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