Goodbye, Larry

“To be sitting at the table on CNN’s ‘Larry King Live’ — just you, him and the big old mic — was proof that one had truly arrived. The suspenders. The odd questions. Why, King wanted to know. His favorite question, because that’s all any of us ever really want to know: Why?” 

—Hank Stuever, Style editor, “Larry King’s long run made the case that there’s no such thing as a dumb question,” The Washington Post, Jan. 24, 2021. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Editorial Comment: That’s a wrap, Mr. King.

 

• Obit: “Larry King, Breezy Interviewer of the Famous and Infamous, Dies at 87,” NYTimes.

 

 

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