The show was called “Larry King Now.” But it was hardly the same. Larry King’s father ran a bar and grill but worked at a defence plant after World War II began. “I found I had an ability to draw people out in an interview,” King recalled in a 1982 memoir, “Larry King by Larry King.” Never knowing who would be interviewed or what would be said, he ad-libbed, and that became his shtick. “The Larry King Show,” featuring interviews and listener calls, drew a devoted national following, won a Peabody Award in 1982, eventually expanded to 500 affiliates and ran until 1994. The centrepiece of his career, “Larry King Live,” became television’s highest-rated talk show and CNN’s biggest success story.

Source: bd News24 January 23, 2021 13:28 UTC