Ron Popeil, 'Set It and Forget It' Infomercial Icon, Dead at 86: 'He Lived Life to the Fullest'
Photo: Reed Saxon/AP/Shutterstock Ron Popeil, the infomercial icon who popularized the catchphrase “set it, and forget it” for Showtime Rotisserie oven, has died. He was 86. “He lived his life to the fullest and passed in the loving arms of his family,” the statement read. “The father of the television infomercial, Ron Popeil, was a trailblazer; he rose from a modest upbringing in a fractured home to become a ubiquitous name and face in direct-to-consumer marketing and inventing....