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Darian O'Toole, S.F. disc jockey dies at 40 Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Darian O'Toole, the San Francisco disc jockey best remembered for her "Ovaries With Attitude" advertising campaign in the late '90s and getting fired after falling asleep on the air, died Monday at an Oakland hospital of complications suffered from a broken leg. She was 40.
Ms. O'Toole, whose real name was Karen Begin, had what one journalist described as a "flamethrower for a mouth" in the mostly all-boys club of morning disc jockeys. She promoted herself as the "Morning Beyotch" and "The Antidote to Howard Stern" on San Francisco's KSAN and KIFR.
Like Stern, Ms. O'Toole bounced among several radio jobs, and in 2006 was fired by KIFR after she passed out while on the air, an episode she later attributed to her battle with alcoholism. She later spent eight months at San Francisco's Epiphany House, a recovery and transitional housing program for women.
After the firing, Ms. O'Toole created a blog for her fans and wrote at one point: "What am I doing lately? A lot of soul-searching and focusing attention on a healthy lifestyle. Something I've lacked for several years. I've been on the radio, or off and desperately trying to get back on, for so many years I've forgotten how to relax. I guess my body decided to send me a message. And it was received."
Her agent, Paul Anderson, said Wednesday that Ms. O'Toole was close to signing a television deal in the Bay Area, though he would not disclose any details.
Dwight Walker, former general manager at KSAN who both hired and fired Ms. O'Toole, said she shot up in the ratings during the 1995 O.J. Simpson trial by railing about Simpson's guilt. She also had a talent for riling San Francisco's politically correct crowd, Walker said.
"She was a pioneer for female broadcasters to speak their mind and not hide anything about their lives," Walker said. "She was not a shock jock - just someone who spoke the truth."
Ms. O'Toole was from Nova Scotia, where she studied theater in college, Anderson said. She got her first radio job in Atlantic City, moved on to Philadelphia and gained notoriety in Baltimore after getting fired for lying on her resume.
After her successful run during the Simpson trial at San Francisco's KBGG, Ms. O'Toole headed to New York City in 1998, lasting only a few months before returning to the Bay Area. She spent two years at Walker's KSAN before she was let go in 2000. "The audience did not respond to her the same way the second time around," Walker said. "After the Simpson trial, when that element went away, she seemed to lose some of her luster."
In recent weeks, Ms. O'Toole had looked into working for Butler and Associates, a Concord private investigator's firm, according to owner Chris Butler. Butler said Ms. O'Toole had responded to a Craigslist ad to work as an undercover decoy in the firm's infidelity cases.
"She was very sharp, very quick-witted," Butler said. "Just like she was on the radio in her heyday."
No services have been announced.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Is that the moron who couldn't deal with the fact that Norm didn't have sex? Or is this someone else?
definitely someone else. This lady is unable to maintain a stable conversation about anything at all. Just laughs and interrupts people with random, unrelated bullshit, constantly derailing every thought
RIP, though
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tree_ wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
Is that the moron who couldn't deal with the fact that Norm didn't have sex? Or is this someone else?
definitely someone else. This lady is unable to maintain a stable conversation about anything at all. Just laughs and interrupts people with random, unrelated bullshit, constantly derailing every thought
She IS dead, you know. You can’t really expect too much from her.
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