By DAVID COLMAN
"The great joke of our era is that this is called the information age," said the actor and humorist Harry Shearer. In other words, if information is free, you get what you pay for. Since childhood, Mr. Shearer has tried to get the genuine article, even if that has meant spending a little time and effort to do so.
It was at the peak of radio´s popularity that Harry Shearer was born in 1943 in Los Angeles. He tuned in quickly: not only was he a child actor whose first gig was on Jack Benny´s radio show ("I was passing as a child," he said), but he had a feverish fascination with radio itself. As a boy, he looked down on the Art Deco carved-wood radio console in his family´s living room, preferring the more sensitive RCA model in his room ("an early vomit-green plastic radio"), which he fiddled with nightly like a junior Marconi.
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