HUMANITY TINTS GEIST HUMOR.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: April 9, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: Dusty Saunders

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS

Humorist Bill Geist recently came to Colorado to check in on a dead guy.

If you're familiar with Geist's work on CBS's Sunday Morning, you're aware this wasn't such a serious assignment.

Last month, Geist went to Nederland to provide his unique view of the second annual Frozen Dead Guy Days, a bizarre, three-day event commemorating Bredo Marstol, whose cryogenically frozen remains are in a shed. Bredo, now 103, was stored by his grandson in 1993 in hope that advanced science would thaw him out and bring him back to life. ...

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