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To: SiouxPal who wrote (201797)	12/15/2010 8:36:23 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 362466

only 3 years.......???? guess that beats getting.. blowed up good.. in Afghanistan

To: SiouxPal who wrote (201797)	12/15/2010 8:55:23 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362466

Death by hanging?

To: SiouxPal who wrote (201797)	12/15/2010 9:23:42 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 362466

Larry King's legendary run ends Thursday usatoday.com By Bill Keveney, USA TODAY After 25 years of interviewing presidents, movie stars and regular folks on CNN's signature talk show, Larry King will host the last of roughly 7,000 episodes of Larry King Live (9 p.m. ET/6 PT). Piers Morgan succeeds King in January. Bill Maher, who has appeared on the show "zillions of times," says the finale will mark the end of an era. "He's one of those giants, that when they go, take it with them," he says. "He brought a style, which I would describe as minimalist, that is in sore need these days when interviewers talk too much and forget they're doing the interviewing." King, 77, who still will have four CNN specials a year, is engraved in popular culture, but his departure is more significant for the legacy than for its effect on today's broadcasting scene, says Michael Harrison of Talkers magazine, which follows talk media. Once a ratings topper, King has lost significant audience recently. "Larry King is a historic broadcasting figure ... one of the most important pioneers of both radio and television talk programming," Harrison says. "His program on CNN established the genre of cable-news talk television as being one of the town meetings of America." King's array of political guests have included Nelson Mandela, Vladimir Putin and each president since Nixon, while celebrities run the gamut from Barbra Streisand to Lady Gaga. "It's not who's been on. It's who hasn't been," says executive producer Wendy Walker, who worked with the host for 17 years. "It's just amazing to me to see historically what we've been able to watch from that set." King brought a long radio-talk tradition to TV, shaping the medium of cable news, says Ron Simon, curator at The Paley Center for Media. "Larry King is the conversational everyman. ... He brought a folksy, in many ways Damon Runyonesque, persona to his show and this casual way of doing his interviewing," Simon says. Some have called King's style soft, but Harrison says it looks that way only compared with the more self-involved, confrontational approaches popular today. It works for him and has led to plenty of news over the years, those interviewed say. "He's not there to challenge people. He's there to elicit something from them and let the audience judge," Maher says. Maher and Ryan Seacrest will be on set for tonight's finale, which will feature surprise appearances. All the interviews and accolades haven't affected King, Maher says. "He's just a guy from Brooklyn who hit it big and never forgot who that guy was, or stopped being that guy."