{"id":3224,"date":"2014-04-28T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T21:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=3224"},"modified":"2014-04-28T16:16:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T21:16:42","slug":"roy-leonard-feeling-fine-after-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/04\/28\/roy-leonard-feeling-fine-after-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Leonard \u2018feeling fine\u2019 after fall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chicago broadcast legend Roy Leonard<\/a> says he\u2019s \u201cfeeling fine\u201d after falling and injuring himself as he was leaving a performance Sunday at the Civic Opera House.<\/p>\n

Leonard, 83, said he was on his way back to his car with his son, Kolin, after attending the press opening of the Lyric Opera of Chicago\u2019s \u201cThe Sound of Music\u201d<\/a> when he tripped over a small rise from the sidewalk to a brick-paved entrance to the parking garage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was strictly my fault,\u201d Leonard told me. \u201cI should have been watching where I was going. I landed on my right shoulder and cushioned the fall with my hands, but\u00a0my\u00a0forehead did hit the sidewalk above the right eye. I never lost consciousness and started to get\u00a0up when my son noticed I was gushing blood.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leonard retired in 1998 after 31 years as a star personality at Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk WGN AM 720 where he hosted a daily show and served as resident arts and entertainment critic. He doubled as host of \u201cFamily Classics\u201d on Tribune-owned WGN-Channel 9 for more than 15 years. He continues to blog for ChicagoNow<\/a> and review movies occasionally on WGN.<\/p>\n

WGN entertainment reporter Dean Richards, who also was leaving the show and witnessed the incident, \u201ccame running over to see how he might help,\u201d Leonard recalled. \u201cWhile waiting [for an ambulance], I tested out my review of the show with Dean. We both liked it very much.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his Facebook page<\/a> Monday, Richards reported: \u201cWGN legend Roy Leonard is OK after taking a bad fall on the sidewalk leaving \u2018Sound of Music\u2019 yesterday. Tons of bleeding but Chicago Fire Department paramedics were there instantly. He went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and was treated and released. While they were bandaging him, he was reviewing the play for me on the street! GO Sugar Roy!\u201d<\/p>\n

On his way to the hospital, Leonard said he started a \u201cwonderful conversation\u201d with paramedics about \"Family Classics,\u201d Ray Rayner and his Saturday morning radio show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was amazed at the efficiency in the emergency room,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter getting off my blood-soaked clothes, they gave me shots of\u00a0an anesthetic and started stitching away.\u00a0I also had a brain scan and had to use the old joke: \u2018They didn't\u00a0find anything.\u2019 Luckily there was no blood in that area. So they let me go home with my son, who had followed the ambulance to the hospital.\u00a0I\u2019m feeling fine today. Oh, a little ache here and there. But\u00a0I'll be\u00a0O.K.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leonard\u2019s review<\/a> of \u201cThe Sound of Music\u201d can be found on his ChicagoNow blog: www.chicagonow.com\/roy-leonard.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI can't recall a revival so perfectly cast,\u201d he wrote. \u201cHats off to The Lyric\u00a0for not only an evening of\u00a0great theatre but for\u00a0giving those familiar\u00a0only with the film\u00a0version of the story\u00a0the opportunity\u00a0to experience why the original\u00a0play made it\u00a0so meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago broadcast legend Roy Leonard says he\u2019s \u201cfeeling fine\u201d after falling and injuring himself as he was leaving a performance Sunday at the Civic Opera House. Leonard, 83, said he was on his way back to his car with his son, Kolin, after attending the press opening of the Lyric Opera of Chicago\u2019s \u201cThe Sound... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3224\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}