Jump to content

ஒலிவாங்கியைப் போர்வையாக்கியவனே போய் வா


Recommended Posts

🙏 Thank You, LARRY KING !!! 🙏,
LARRY KING, அமெரிக்க ஊடகத்துறையில் 63 ஆண்டுகள் கோலோச்சிய ஜாம்பவான். அவருடைய 87வது வயதில் இன்று (January 23, 2021) காலமானார்.
ஆட்சியாளர்கள் முதல் புரட்சியாளர்கள் வரை, ஆறு தசாப்தங்களில் சுமார் 50,000 நேர்காணல்களூடாக வரலாற்றைப் பதிவுசெய்த சாதனையாளன்.
9 வயதிலேயே தந்தையை இழந்த King, பாடசாலைப் படிப்போடு கல்வியை நிறுத்திவிட்டு, ஊடகவியலாளராகும் கனவுடன் பயணப்பட்டார்.
வானொலியொன்றில் சுத்திகரிப்பாளராகவும், தொட்டாட்டு வேலை செய்யும் ஒருவராகவும் பணிக்குச்சேர்ந்து, திடீரென்று கிடைத்த வாய்ப்பை,
தனது திறமையாலும், அர்ப்பணிப்பாலும், உழைப்பாலும், உறுதியாலும் வரலாறாக மாற்றினார்.
'LARRY KING SHOW' வாக வானொலியில் பரிணாமம் பெற்ற அவருடைய நிகழ்ச்சி, பின்னர் 'LARRY KING LIVE' ஆக தொலைக்காட்சியிலும், 'LARRY KING NOW' ஆக, DIGITAL பரிணாமமாகவும் வரலாற்றைப் பதிவு செய்தது.
'தனித்துவம்', 'மிடுக்கு', 'கம்பீரம்', 'அழுத்தமான' பேச்சு, 'ஊன்றிய' பார்வை என்று மக்களை வசியப்படுத்திய ஒரு இட்டு நிரப்பமுடியாத ஊடக ஆளுமை 'LARRY KING'.
'வானொலி', 'தொலைக்காட்சி', 'இணையம்' என அத்தனை தளங்களிலும் அவருடைய தடங்கள் பதிக்கப்பட்டாலும், 25 ஆண்டுகளாக அவர் தொகுத்து வழங்கிய, CNN தொலைக்காட்சியின் 'LARRY KING LiVE' நிகழ்ச்சி அவருக்கான தனித்துவமான அடையாளத்தைக் கொடுத்தது.
6000 தொடர் நேர்காணல் நிகழ்ச்சியோடு, 2010 இல் CNN இல் இருந்து அவர் விடைபெற்றாலும், வெவ்வேறு தளங்கள் ஊடாகப் பயணப்பட்டார்.
'மார்ட்டின் லூதர் கிங் Jr.', 'நெல்சன் மண்டேலா', 'யசீர் அரஃபாத்' போன்ற புரட்சியாளர்களையும், 'ஜெரால்ட் ஃபோர்ட்' முதல் 'பறாக் ஒபாமா' வரையான அமெரிக்கத் தலைவர்களையும், எண்ணில் அடங்காத வெளிநாட்டுத் தலைவர்கள் மற்றும் விளையாட்டு, சினிமாப் பிரபலங்களையும் அவர் நேர்காணல் செய்துள்ளார்.
7 மனைவிகள் 8 முறை திருணங்கள் என்று அசாத்தியங்களையும் சாத்தியமாக்கிய அசகாயசூரன்.
மாரடைப்பு, இதய சத்திரசிகிச்சை, நுரையீரல் புற்றுநோய், புறொஸ்டேற் புற்றுநோய், பக்கவாதம் என்று அத்தனை உடல் உபாதைகளையும் வதம் செய்து வென்ற
போர்க்குணம் மிக்க ஒரு பேராற்றலை, 'கொறோனா' கொன்றுவிட்டது.
சுருங்கக் கூறின், அமெரிக்க ஊடக வரலாற்றை, இவரைத் தவிர்த்துவிட்டு எழுதிவிட முடியாது.
தொழிலையும், ஒலிவாங்கியையும் நேசித்த Larry King இன் வார்த்தைகள் இவை...
///// "I was in love with what I was doing. You know why it never lets me down. This is my blanket (Microphone)" /////
இந்த வரலாற்றுடல், அவர் விருப்பப்படி பதப்படுத்தப்பட்டால் மகிழ்ச்சி.
ஒலிவாங்கியைப் போர்வையாக்கியவனே போய் வா...😢
ஊடக உலகின் உயரம் தொட்ட 'பிதாமகருக்கு' இறுதி வணக்கம் !!! 🙏
- உதயன் S. பிள்ளை -
Image may contain: 1 person, eyeglasses
 
 
 
 
 

arry King, renowned television and radio host, dies at 87

 

CNN broadcaster had conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews

The Associated Press · 
 
larry-king.jpg
 

Larry King, renowned television and radio host, dies at 87

19 hours agoVideo
8:39
U.S. talk show legend Larry King, 87, has died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the production company he founded said Saturday. No cause of death was given, but CNN had earlier reported he was hospitalized with COVID-19. 8:39
comments

Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary people helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87.

King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, said on Twitter. No cause of death was given, but CNN had earlier reported he was hospitalized with COVID-19.

A longtime nationally syndicated radio host, from 1985 through 2010 he was a nightly fixture on CNN, where he won many honours, including two Peabody awards.

 

With his celebrity interviews, political debates and topical discussions, King wasn't just an enduring on-air personality. He also set himself apart with the curiosity be brought to every interview — whether questioning the assault victim known as the "Central Park Jogger" or billionaire industrialist Ross Perot, who in 1992 rocked the presidential contest by announcing his candidacy on King's show.

In its early years, Larry King Live was based in Washington, D.C., which gave the show an air of gravitas. Likewise King. He was the plain-spoken go-between through whom Beltway bigwigs could reach their public — and they did, earning the show prestige as a place where things happened, where news was made.

King conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews. In 1995 he presided over a Middle East peace summit with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He welcomed everyone from the Dalai Lama to Elizabeth Taylor, from Mikhail Gorbachev to Barack Obama, Bill Gates to Lady Gaga.

Relocated to Los Angeles

Especially after he relocated to Los Angeles, his shows were frequently in the thick of breaking celebrity news, including Paris Hilton talking about her stint in jail in 2007 and Michael Jackson's friends and family members talking about his death in 2009.

King boasted of never overpreparing for an interview. His non-confrontational style relaxed his guests and made him readily relatable to his audience.

 
people-larry-king.JPG
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton, right, speaks with Larry King on CNN in New York on Sept. 3, 2002. (Reuters)

"I don't pretend to know it all," he said in a 1995 Associated Press interview. "Not, `What about Geneva or Cuba?' I ask, `Mr. President, what don't you like about this job?' Or 'What's the biggest mistake you made?' That's fascinating."

 

At a time when CNN, as the lone player in cable news, was deemed politically neutral and King was the essence of its middle-of-the-road stance, political figures and people at the centre of controversies would seek out his show.

Interviewed Sinatra, Brando

And he was known for getting guests who were notoriously elusive. Frank Sinatra, who rarely gave interviews and often lashed out at reporters, spoke to King in 1988 in what would be the singer's last major TV appearance. Sinatra was an old friend of King's and acted accordingly.

"Why are you here?" King asks. Sinatra responds, "Because you asked me to come and I hadn't seen you in a long time to begin with, I thought we ought to get together and chat, just talk about a lot of things."

King had never met Marlon Brando, who was even tougher to get and tougher to interview, when the acting giant asked to appear on King's show in 1994. The two hit it off so famously they ended their 90-minute talk with a song and an on-the-mouth kiss, an image that was all over media in subsequent weeks.

25-run year on Larry King Live

After a gala week marking his 25th anniversary in June 2010, King abruptly announced he was retiring from his show, telling viewers, "It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders." Named as his successor in the time slot: British journalist and TV personality Piers Morgan.

By King's departure that December, suspicion had grown that he had waited a little too long to hang up those suspenders. Once the leader in cable TV news, he ranked third in his time slot with less than half the nightly audience his peak year, 1998, when Larry King Live drew 1.64 million viewers.

 

His wide-eyed, regular-guy approach to interviewing by then felt dated in an era of edgy, pushy or loaded questioning by other hosts.

Meanwhile, occasional flubs had made him seem out of touch, or worse. A prime example from 2007 found King asking Jerry Seinfeld if he had voluntarily left his sitcom or been cancelled by his network, NBC.

"I was the No. 1 show in television, Larry," replied Seinfeld with a flabbergasted look. "Do you know who I am?"

Always a workaholic, King would be back doing specials for CNN within a few months of performing his nightly duties.

Big following on Twitter 

He found a new sort of celebrity as a plain-spoken natural on Twitter when the platform emerged, winning over more than two million followers who simultaneously mocked and loved him for his esoteric style.

"I've never been in a canoe," he said in a typical tweet in 2015.

 

His Twitter account was essentially a revival of a USA Today column he wrote for two decades full of one-off, disjointed thoughts. Norm Macdonald delivered a parody version of the column when he played King on Saturday Night Live, with deadpan lines like, "The more I think about it, the more I appreciate the equator."

King was constantly parodied, often through old-age jokes on late-night talk shows from hosts including David Letterman and Conan O'Brien — often appearing with the latter to get in on the roasting himself.

Born and raised in Brooklyn

King came by his voracious but no-frills manner honestly.

He was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in 1933, a son of Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe who ran a bar and grill in Brooklyn, N.Y. But after his father's death when Larry was a boy, he faced a troubled, sometimes destitute youth.

A fan of such radio stars as Arthur Godfrey and comedians Bob & Ray, King on reaching adulthood set his sights on a broadcasting career. With word that Miami was a good place to break in, he headed south in 1957 and landed a job sweeping floors at a tiny AM radio station. When a deejay abruptly quit, King was put on the air — and was handed his new surname by the station manager, who thought Zeiger "too Jewish."

A year later he moved to a larger station, where his duties were expanded from the usual patter to serving as host of a daily interview show that aired from a local restaurant. He quickly proved equally adept at talking to the waitresses and the celebrities who began dropping by.

 

By the early 1960s, King had gone to yet a larger Miami station, scored a newspaper column and become a local celebrity himself.

At the same time, he fell victim to living large.

"It was important to me to come across as a `big man,"' he wrote in his autobiography, which meant "I made a lot of money and spread it around lavishly."

Married 8 times to 7 women

King accumulated debts and his first broken marriages (he was married eight times to seven women). He gambled, borrowed wildly and failed to pay his taxes. He also became involved with a shady financier in a scheme to bankroll an investigation of John F. Kennedy's assassination. But when King skimmed some of the cash to pay his overdue taxes, his partner sued him for grand larceny in 1971. The charges were dropped, but King's reputation appeared ruined.

King lost his radio show and for several years struggled to find work. But by 1975, the scandal had largely blown over, and a Miami station gave him another chance. Regaining his local popularity, King was signed in 1978 to host radio's first nationwide call-in show.

 
people-larry-king.JPG
Larry King poses with his wife, Shawn Southwick, and their sons, Chance Armstrong, left, and Cannon Edward, at the premiere of The Country Bears at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on July 21, 2002. The couple filed for divorce in 2010, rescinded the filing, then filed for divorce again in 2019. (Reuters)

Originating from Washington on the Mutual network, The Larry King Show was eventually heard on more than 300 stations and made King a national phenomenon.

 

A few years later, CNN founder Ted Turner offered King a slot on his young network. Larry King Live debuted on June 1, 1985, and became CNN's highest-rated program. King's starting salary of $100,000 a year eventually grew to more than $7 million.

A three-packs-a-day cigarette habit led to a heart attack in 1987, but King's quintuple-bypass surgery didn't slow him down.

Meanwhile, he continued to prove that, in his words, "I'm not good at marriage, but I'm a great boyfriend."

He was just 18 when he married high school girlfriend Freda Miller, in 1952. The marriage lasted less than a year. In subsequent decades, he would marry Annette Kay, Alene Akins (twice), Mickey Sutfin, Sharon Lepore and Julie Alexander.

In 1997, he wed Shawn Southwick, a country singer and actress 26 years his junior. They would file for divorce in 2010, rescind the filing, then file for divorce again in 2019.

The couple had two sons, King's fourth and fifth children — Chance Armstrong, born in 1999, and Cannon Edward, born in 2000. In 2020, King lost his two eldest children, Andy King and Chaia King, who died of unrelated health problems within weeks of each other.

 

He had many other medical issues in recent decades, including more heart attacks and diagnoses of Type 2 diabetes and lung cancer.

Early this year, CNN reported that King was hospitalized for more than a week with COVID-19.

Through his setbacks, he continued to work into his late 80s, taking on online talk shows and infomercials as his appearances on CNN grew fewer.

"Work," King once said. "It's the easiest thing I do."

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.



×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use.