On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 2:18 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hold up there with the "Carson stayed too long" crap. Pretty much everyone > I've read (and I agree) think Carson left at the right time. He saw what > happened to Bob Hope at the end doing horrible TV specials and knew he > didnt wanted to end up like that. He could've written his own contracts and > stories, but choose not to (with the exception of guest writing for Dave, > which is enough of a justification that he could've kept going). > > Crap? You must be from the Kelly Anne Conway school of alternative facts. Carson was down to three days a week with a fill-in host or reruns the other days. He worked fewer weeks a year. Jay Leno sometimes got higher ratings as a fill-in host than Carson. Arsenio Hall was kicked the crap out of Carson with younger viewers, which distressed NBC brass But generally, Johnny seemed bored. I know. I was watching. > On Sat, Jan 23, 2021, 14:13 Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have mixed feelings and largely agree with Tom. He has such a long >> career he has a lot of great moments and a lot of flops, too. Like Carson, >> he hung around too long. Carson's problem at the end was boredom. King's >> was senility and it was much harsher. >> King liked to go into interviews unprepared and he said learning about >> something as he went along also helped the audience learn. But it led to >> too many softball questions and missed opportunities. >> He sold his credibility to dubious businesses. >> Still, he had a great sense of humor and that enhanced may interviews. >> >> https://youtu.be/h2Sj3vT7g3Y >> >> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 9:52 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I just can’t be nice about him. He was a bad interviewer with no >>> scruples. I didn’t wish him dead; I feel for his family; but he was a >>> two-faced ass who gave journalists and long form interviews a bad name. >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 7:17 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 9:52 AM Phineas Gage <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> “Larry King, the suspendered impresario of cable television whose >>>>> popular CNN interview program — with its guest-friendly questions and >>>>> conversational banter — was a premier safe haven for the famous and >>>>> infamous to spill their secrets, hype their projects and soften their >>>>> image, died Jan. 23 at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 87.” >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/larry-king-tv-host-who-gave-boldface-names-a-cozy-forum-dies-at-87/2021/01/23/a1178fc2-4eaa-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html >>>>> >>>> >>>> One of the problems with eulogizing someone who had a ridiculously long >>>> career is that what set him apart from the pack in his early years is >>>> forgotten in favor of what he did later in life when he got rich and lazy. >>>> I used to listen to King late at night on Mutual radio in the early 80s and >>>> he was as good a talk radio host as there was. He was engaging and knew how >>>> to ask his guests sharp questions without causing a conflict. It was only >>>> in the mid-90s on CNN that it became clear that he no longer had it but >>>> instead of making him hang it up he was continually given a show for the >>>> next 25 years and that's what now forms his legacy. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiETAyW7Eb%3DTiijb9M2kZ8YGCuevhHGjdkbXSwiq5Asr7A%40mail.gmail.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiETAyW7Eb%3DTiijb9M2kZ8YGCuevhHGjdkbXSwiq5Asr7A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> Kevin M. 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