HOUSTON, goodbye! Larry King ending prime-time show

My prediction is CNN hires Couric and changes the format so she and the guest(s) sit in chairs so everyone can see Couric's legs in an effort to boost ratings. But that's just a guess.

 

In less than two years we could live in a world without Larry King, Regis Philbin, Alex Trebek, Pat Sajak, Letterman, Leno and Andy Rooney on our TVs. That's a lot of hours on TV in the last 30 years.

 

Hey, Larry King's legs rawk, too.

 

One of my most vivid memories of the Larry King radio show is from December 1984. I was a freshman in college, trying to pull an all-nighter, but I fell asleep with a book and my chest and Larry King on the ragio ... KOGO AM in San Diego, I think it was.

I woke up startled about 1 a.m., because King and some caller were screaming about the Bernhard Goetz case. It sticks out in my memory because it was so out of character for King to scream at a caller. He didn't even scream at Howard Stern's little weasels when they slithered through his screener.

I also remember seeing some TV simulcast of his radio show a few years later. He was chain-smoking those 120mm More cigarettes. No wonder he had so many heart attacks. :