Alexandre Nikolaev ([personal profile] alexnikolbackup) wrote2021-01-23 08:29 am
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Помер Ларри Кинг. Тот, кому Путин сказал с ухмылкой про подлодку "Курск" : "Она утонула".

Larry King, the celebrated television and radio host, has died at the age of 87


Вова Познер считает его "дутым"


Правда не преминул соврамши. Кинг не сказал: "Ну ладно" и пошёл дальше. Он спросил: "Почему? Какая причина? Что мы знаем?" Ну а ответ Путина - на русском. Так что судите сами, что такое Познер.


Larry King was born Lawrence H. Zeiger in 1933 to a strict Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. As a child he dreamed of working in broadcast: 'When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don’t know why I was magically attuned to it.' The tragic death of his father when he was nine-years-old heavily impacted King and his family, who was forced to go on government welfare. King, who never attended college, entered the work force straight after graduating high school to make ends meet. King was 23 and working in a midtown-Manhattan mail room when he moved to Miami on the advice of a CBS sportscaster who said the budding media market was offering opportunities for inexperienced radio hosts
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King shares a laugh with Madonna in 1999 on Larry King Live which was CNN's most watched and longest-running program, with over one million viewers nightly before it was cancelled in 2010. Over the course of his 65-year-long career as a TV and radio host, King conducted over 50,000 interviews with everyone from Martin Luther King, Jr to Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Vladimir Putin, Mick Jagger, Michael Jordan, George Clooney, Lady Gaga, Bette Davis, Jackie Gleason, Al Pacino, Malcolm X, Monica Lewinsky, Audrey Hepburn, Paul McCartney, Bobby Kennedy, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor and Oprah Winfrey

Larry King did exclusive sit-downs with every U.S. president and First Lady since Richard Nixon. King's famed NAFTA debate between then-Vice President Al Gore and Ross Perot in 1993 smashed cable industry ratings records and obtained the highest rating in CNN history - reaching more than 16.3 million viewers. King said  of all the Presidents he's interviewed, Clinton was the best. 'His one bad feature? He is always late'

In one of the many sit-downs with Donald Trump, King asked the real estate developer in 1999 if he was ever interested in running for president. In the interview Trump told King that 'Oprah would be my first choice for vice president'



Larry King was born Lawrence H. Zeiger in 1933 to a strict Orthodox Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. As a child he dreamed of working in broadcast: 'When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don’t know why I was magically attuned to it.' The tragic death of his father when he was nine-years-old heavily impacted King and his family, who was forced to go on government welfare. King, who never attended college, entered the work force straight after graduating high school to make ends meet. King was 23 and working in a midtown-Manhattan mail room when he moved to Miami on the advice of a CBS sportscaster who said the budding media market was offering opportunities for inexperienced radio hosts

King shares a laugh with Madonna in 1999 on Larry King Live which was CNN's most watched and longest-running program, with over one million viewers nightly before it was cancelled in 2010. Over the course of his 65-year-long career as a TV and radio host, King conducted over 50,000 interviews with everyone from Martin Luther King, Jr to Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Vladimir Putin, Mick Jagger, Michael Jordan, George Clooney, Lady Gaga, Bette Davis, Jackie Gleason, Al Pacino, Malcolm X, Monica Lewinsky, Audrey Hepburn, Paul McCartney, Bobby Kennedy, Barbra Streisand, Michael Jackson, Martha Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor and Oprah Winfrey

Larry King did exclusive sit-downs with every U.S. president and First Lady since Richard Nixon. King's famed NAFTA debate between then-Vice President Al Gore and Ross Perot in 1993 smashed cable industry ratings records and obtained the highest rating in CNN history - reaching more than 16.3 million viewers. King said  of all the Presidents he's interviewed, Clinton was the best. 'His one bad feature? He is always late'

In one of the many sit-downs with Donald Trump, King asked the real estate developer in 1999 if he was ever interested in running for president. In the interview Trump told King that 'Oprah would be my first choice for vice president'

Larry King (born Larry Zeiger) moved to Miami when he was 22-years-old. He got a job working at a local radio station as  janitor on the caveat that when an on-air position opened, he would be the first to get to get it. Mere minutes before he was set to go on air for the first time, Larry's boss demanded he pick a new stage name that was easier to remember and sounded less 'ethnic.' He chose the surname 'King,' which he pulled from an advertisement in The Miami Herald for 'King Wholesale Liquor'


Larry King (right) stands with Playboy Bunny Alene Akins, whom he married twice from 1961 to 1963 and again from 1967-1972. The couple had two children who preceded King in death after passing away within the same week in August 2020. King was married eight times to seven different women. 'I love being in love,' he told Anderson Cooper in 2009

Larry King stands alongside his fifth wife, Sharon Lepore and Montana Senator, Conrad Burns in 1989. In his 1982 autobiography, Larry King described himself as a great date, but a lousy husband. Women were his weakness. The unlikely seducer told Esquire: 'A sense of humor is a major aphrodisiac. I'm certainly an average-looking guy, but I've had some very nice women in my life. I always could make 'em laugh.'


Larry King stands alongside his fifth wife, Sharon Lepore and Montana Senator, Conrad Burns in 1989. In his 1982 autobiography, Larry King described himself as a great date, but a lousy husband. Women were his weakness. The unlikely seducer told Esquire: 'A sense of humor is a major aphrodisiac. I'm certainly an average-looking guy, but I've had some very nice women in my life. I always could make 'em laugh.'

King and his daughter Chaia celebrate Frank Sinatra's 80th Birthday in Los Angeles in 1995. Jackie Gleason helped King snag his first big break as a novice radio broadcaster in 1961: a sit-down with Frank Sinatra, who famously declined all media requests. 'There was nobody bigger in the world than Frank Sinatra and he never did interviews,' said King. As a result of that first interview, the two formed an  unlikely friendship that lasted until Sinatra's death in 1998. He wrote to King: 'What you do is you make the camera disappear'

King's two decades spent in Miami were a sordid rags-to-riches story of how he broke into the broadcasting industry. He went through multiple wives, slept around with married women and had a bad gambling habit that racked up lots of debt. In 1971, he was arrested on charges of grand larceny for writing bad checks, the complaint was filed by his friend-turned-foe Lou Wolfson, a corrupt financier who tried to convince King to bribe president-elect Richard Nixon on his behalf. The arrest effectively destroyed King's career for four years

King sits with New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani during his night time radio show with Mutual Broadcasting, which was broadcast live Monday through Friday from midnight to 5:30am. His 'everyman' approach to interviews made him tremendously popular with guests and audiences but some critics accused him of being 'too soft.' He told the Chicago Tribune in 2009: 'All I've tried to do is ask the best questions I could think of, listen to the answers and then follow up. I've never not followed up. I don't attack anybody -- that's not my style -- but I follow up'

King indulged in a series of high-profile romances between marriages, one of which was with the actress Angie Dickinson During their breig courtship King signed off his nightly show with '1-4-3, Arrivederci.' It was their personal code for 'I love you. See you later'


Larry King is pictured with his sixth wife (and seventh marriage), Julie Alexander, he proposed on their first date and got married three months later. The couple divorced in 1992, the couple had no children. King didn't meet his son, Larry King Jr. from his second wife, Annette Kaye until he was 33-years-old. By the time Larry Jr was born, King was already married to his third wife. 'I knew there was a Larry King Jr out there, I'd heard that, but I didn't know he was mine. The marriage was very short and she told me if it's a boy, I'm gonna name him Larry King Jr,' explained the King to The New York Post in 2009. 'Then I never heard again'

King married his seventh wife Shaun Southwick - a Mormon singer, actress and TV host that was 26-years his junior in 1997. The couple married in a Los Angeles hospital room three days before King underwent heart surgery to clear a clogged blood vessel. On their tenth wedding anniversary, Southwick joked that she was 'the only wife to have lasted into the two digits.' Three years later, the couple filed for divorce in 2010 but reconciled. King filed for divorce again in 2019 stating that their gap and religion took 'its toll' on the marriage

British movie star Hugh Grant appears with Larry King to admit and apologize for being disloyal to his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley, when he had a sexual encounter with a prostitute


King glances back at his production staff before beginning his 1993 interview with Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat after the signing ceremony of the historic Israel-PLO Oslo Accords on Palestinian autonomy. Two years later, the host moderated a historic hour on the Middle East Peace process with Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

King introduces himself to Jack Nicholson at a table with Warren Beatty, Donald Trump and Paul Simon. When asked 'who is the worst guest he ever interviewed?' King responded:  'Easy, Robert Mitchum. I loved the guy. He was a great actor, and we were friends. But the minute I got him on my show, he put my feet to the fire. It was a series of yups, nopes and maybes'

Elizabeth Taylor was a close friend and frequent guest of Larry King Live, when she died in 2011, he called it 'the end of an era'


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