Marvin Zindler 
If you ever lived in Houston or in the viewing area of ABC13 KTRK, then you probably remember the flamboyant television personality of Marvin Zindler.
Marvin was a legend in Houston television who will never be forgotten. Mr. Zindler, with his cheerfully admitted plastic surgery, closet of peacock fashions, blatant hairpieces and blue-tinted glasses, was best known for his first foray into investigative journalism, in 1973. He became nationally known when exposing a widely tolerated bawdyhouse known as the Chicken Ranch in La Grange. The case was the basis for the musical and movie “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”.
He was an early consumer advocate and action reporter, campaigning against scams, medical abuses and unsanitary food conditions. His regular Friday “rat and roach reports”. Friends said he was quiet spoken and never shouted — until he was on the air. He was known for cheerfully stumbling over words. His reporting was very comical. Whether he was riding with trash collectors to highlight the difficulties of their work, traveling overseas to arrange medical care for stricken children or visiting relief recipients to show the misery of their lives. Among his causes was a medical charity. The Agris-Zindler Children’s Foundation, started with his plastic surgeon, Dr. Joe Agris, and supported in part by profits from a biography that Dr. Agris wrote about his patient, “White Knight in Blue Shades”.
Marvin most memorable line was "SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE"
Marvin was born in Houston in 1921. When announcing his last illness on the air on July 5, 2007. Mr. Zindler said, “I don’t want anybody to feel sorry for me because I’m almost 86 years old”. His inoperable pancreatic cancer spread to his liver. Even in his last days, he continued to work, filing reports from his hospital bed. He passed away on July 29, 2007.
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