Broadcasting Career
While seeking acting work, Laquidara worked part-time in the 1960s as a classical music announcer at KPPC-FM in Pasadena, California. After several moves back and forth to his home state of Massachusetts, he eventually ended up working at KPPC full time. A columnist for the Pasadena Star-News called attention to Laquidara's unusual style in 1965. The writer described Laquidara as an aspiring actor doing radio in a then-radical way, including using long, dramatic pauses in his descriptions of the opera La bohème and often playing passages of music he admired two or more times in a row, both practices strongly discouraged by accepted radio hosting standards of the time.
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