39th wedding anniversary for Mark & Sara Dawidziak

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Former BJ and PD TV critic Mark Dawidziak and Sara Showman Dawidziak are celebrating their 39^th wedding anniversary today.

 

Mark and Sara met when they were both in the cast of Neil Simon’s “The Good Doctor” in Tennessee. A year later, there was a Mark-Sara wedding in Johnston City, Tennessee, where Mark was working on the Kingsport Times-News.

 

To cement the courtship Mark showed “Psycho” during a film series he ran while they were dating. By comparison with Norman Bates it made Mark look so good that Sara took the bait.

 

Mark and Sara have been performing together, on stage and in private, ever since including with their Largely Literary theater company that takes on Edgar Alan Poe, Mark Twain, etc.

 

They have a photographer extraordinaire daughter, Becky.

The BJ plucked Mark in 1983 as irascible David Bianculli’s replacement for TV critic. Mark was best TV writer I had during my 16 years as TV editor and I had 3 good ones!

Before the BJ & the PD, Mark's career took him to the Kingsport Times-News in Tennessee,
the Bristol Herald Courier in Virginia, the Associated Press’ Washington bureau and Knight-Ridder Newspapers’  Washington bureau.

Mark is justifiably in the Cleveland Press Club’s Journalism Hall of Fame and writes books more often than he changes underwear, which is NOT a comment on his hygiene.

Mark was born in Huntington, New York (think Long Island), on September 7, 1956, a son of World War II Army Air Corps captain/navigator Joseph Walter Dawidziak, buried in Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island, and Claire Dawidziak. Later, Joe married Bernie Dawidziak.

Mark’s siblings are Joe, Jr., a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran; Jane, Aileen and Michael.Click on photo montage to enlarge it

Former BJ and PD TV critic Mark Dawidziak and Sara Showman Dawidziak are celebrating their 39^th wedding anniversary today.

 

Mark and Sara met when they were both in the cast of Neil Simon’s “The Good Doctor” in Tennessee. A year later, there was a Mark-Sara wedding in Johnston City, Tennessee, where Mark was working on the Kingsport Times-News.

 

To cement the courtship Mark showed “Psycho” during a film series he ran while they were dating. By comparison with Norman Bates it made Mark look so good that Sara took the bait.

 

Mark and Sara have been performing together, on stage and in private, ever since including with their Largely Literary theater company that takes on Edgar Alan Poe, Mark Twain, etc.

 

They have a photographer extraordinaire daughter, Becky.

The BJ plucked Mark in 1983 as irascible David Bianculli’s replacement for TV critic. Mark was best TV writer I had during my 16 years as TV editor and I had 3 good ones!

Before the BJ & the PD, Mark's career took him to the Kingsport Times-News in Tennessee,
the Bristol Herald Courier in Virginia, the Associated Press’ Washington bureau and Knight-Ridder Newspapers’  Washington bureau.

Mark is justifiably in the Cleveland Press Club’s Journalism Hall of Fame and writes books more often than he changes underwear, which is NOT a comment on his hygiene.

Mark was born in Huntington, New York (think Long Island), on September 7, 1956, a son of World War II Army Air Corps captain/navigator Joseph Walter Dawidziak, buried in Calverton National Cemetery on Long Island, and Claire Dawidziak. Later, Joe married Bernie Dawidziak.

Mark’s siblings are Joe, Jr., a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran; Jane, Aileen and Michael.