Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw Interview (May 3, 1986)
February 13, 1990 - Former WSVN-Ch. 7 reporter/anchor Peter Lundquist died on Monday in Seattle after a nine-month fight against a form of bone-marrow cancer known as lymphoblastic lymphoma. He was 37.
Mr. Lundquist worked at WSVN from July 1982 through July 1988. His posts included reporter, noontime anchor and entertainment specialist.
Before joining WSVN, the native of Tacoma, Wash., had worked at WFLA-TV in Jacksonville, KXLY-TV in Spokane, Wash., and KNDO-TV in Yakima, Wash.
He lived in Plantation.
He left WSVN to form an independent production company that specialized in industrial films and commercials.
Mr. Lundquist’s illness came to the public’s attention when his colleague and close friend, WSVN anchor Steve Dawson, did a series in December titled “My Friend Peter,” which highlighted Mr. Lundquist’s fruitless search for a compatible bone-marrow donor.
Dawson, who became close to Mr. Lundquist when they both worked in WSVN’s Broward bureau, said doctors were optimistic of a recovery if they could have found a donor. Dawson said that, as Mr. Lundquist was dying, he said his only regret was that he could not do something to help others in similar situations.
“He said he hoped what had happened to him would bring attention to the problems in finding donors,” Dawson recalled.
Dawson said fund-raisers on Mr. Lundquist’s behalf that were scheduled for Feb. 25 at Uncle Funny’s Comedy Clubs in Broward and Dade counties will be held as planned. Part of the proceeds, Dawson said, would be donated to the effort to establish a transplant center at the University of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Lundquist is survived by his wife, Bonnie, and their 1 1/2 year-old daughter, Bonnie. He also had two children by a previous marriage, Alicia, 17, and Arn, 15.
Dawson said that Mr. Lundquist asked that his ashes be spread over Puget Sound in Washington state.
Peter Lundquist (1953-1990) made his final acting appearance as a reporter interviewing General Manuel Borbon about the riots in his country, Costa Morada, in the episode "Freefall" of the series Miami Vice.
Lundquist was a reporter for WSVN-TV in Miami (some of their alumni include TV personalities Shepard Smith and Robin Meade) until 1988, and appeared in the 1985 movie The Mean Season (with Cynthia Caquelin), also as a reporter. He died on February 12, 1990, of complications from lymphoblastic lymphoma, at the age of 37.
Durk Pearson (born 1943 in Illinois) is a research scientist best known for coauthoring a series of books on longevity, beginning with Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach.
Early life
While a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was a member of the MIT Science Fiction Society and one of the writers for the early underground comic God Comics. Pearson graduated from MIT with a triple major in physics, biology, and psychology.[1]
Career
Pearson has patents in the area of oil shale and tar sands recovery,[2] lasers, holography and supplement formulations.[3] Pearson assisted with equipment design and experiments for NASA's Space Shuttle.[4] Pearson is also an International Society for Testing and Failure Analysis honoree.[5]
Publications
Pearson and Sandy Shaw are the authors of Life Extension: A Practical Scientific Approach[6] (ISBN 0-446-51229-X, Warner Books, 1982), The Life Extension Companion[7] (Warner Books), The Life Extension Weight Loss Program, and Freedom of Informed Choice: FDA v. Nutrient Supplements, (Common Sense Press, 1993). He and Sandy Shaw have written numerous articles on life extension, cognitive enhancement, anti-aging, weight loss, and other aspects of nutrition.[citation needed]
Television, film, and video
Pearson and Shaw wrote, designed the stunts, and acted as technical advisors for a 1978 episode of The Wonderful World of Disney, called "Black Holes, Monsters That Eat Space and Time."[8] They acted as scientific and technical advisors and received screen credits for the Clint Eastwood film Firefox.[9] They received screen credits for acting as technical advisors for Douglas Trumbull's film Brainstorm, starring Natalie Wood.[10] In 1988, Steve Sharon, Pearson, and Shaw wrote the thriller The Dead Pool, which was later sold to Warner Bros. and made into a Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry film.[11] Pearson and Shaw make a cameo appearance in the funeral scene. They are standing directly behind the bereaved.
Court case on dietary supplements
Pearson and Shaw in a civil action challenged the constitutional validity of several U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") regulations that require sellers of dietary supplements to obtain FDA authorization before labeling such supplements with "health claims." In ruling against the FDA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found that the supplement health claims were constitutionally protected free speech.[12
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