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Posted: 11:37 AM Jul 3, 2009
Product Pitchman Mays remembered as bigtime seller
Television product Pitchman Billy Mays is being remembered as a pop culture icon.
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McKees Rocks, Pa. (AP) - Television product Pitchman Billy Mays is being remembered as a pop culture icon.
Mays' funeral was Friday in McKees Rocks, Pa., a small suburb of Pittsburgh where he was born and raised.
Dean Panizzi remembered his cousin and lifelong friend as the man who ``sold more Oxiclean than Andy Warhol sold Campbell's Soup.''
The 50-year-old television personality was found dead at his home in Tampa, Fla., on June 28. A medical examiner says Mays likely died of a heart attack, though test results to confirm that are pending.
Mays shot commercials until a few days before his death. Known for his jet black hair and beard, Mays developed his yell-and-sell technique hawking products on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., in 1983.
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