hearing. richard dawson, the long time family feud game show host and one of hogan s heroes has passed away. i got good news and bad news. give me the bad news first. bad news is you need 172 points to win the money. the good news is you re the man to do it. i m going to ask you the same questions i asked the other bob, you cannot and do not want to duplicate his answers. he was so well known for that show, dawson died at a los angeles hospital suffering from complications relating to esophogeal cancer. he was best known for kissing female contestants on a family feud. he married one of them and promised he d never kiss anyone on the show again. dawson was 79. survey says great performer. all right. coming up straight ahead, as we continue with the show, have you seen this? new york city mayor michael bloomberg as the nanny?
christopher hitchins is known for his wit. he spent years as a writer not afraid to take on anyone or anything. he is an atheist without apology. two months ago he discovered he has esophogeal cancer and many wondered if that diagnosis changed his belief in god or in prayer. he was diagnosed just recently, as i said. frankly, the diagnosis just came as hitch 22 hit the book shelves. i had a chance to talk with him. when did you realize something was wrong? it was in the middle of my tour for my memoir. my hitch 22 and i was feeling a bit ropey, but i wrote it down to overwork and i rather enjoyed the feeling of burning the candle at both ends and living a 36-hour day but it abruptly was brought in on me that that was an illusion. there was a morning i couldn t get out of bed. there was obviously something wrong with my heart and my
not many people come through esophogeal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. i know you know people are praying for. there are prayer groups, actually. you talked about that a little bit. what do you think about that, the the fact that people are praying for you? there are people who are praying for me to suffer and die. they have lavish websites relishing my really? oh, yes. then there are people, much more numerous, i must say, and nicer, who are praying either i get better or that i redeem myself, that i make peace with the almighty, that my soul gets saved even if my wretched carcass does not. and some pray for both. and, in fact, the 20th of september has been designated everyone pray for hitchens day on one website in case you want to mark the calendar for that. i shall not be taking part in that.
tour for my memoir. my hitch 22 and i was feeling a bit ropey, but i wrote it down to overwork and i rather enjoyed the feeling of burning the candle at both ends and living a 36-hour day but it abruptly was brought in on me that that was an illusion. there was a morning i couldn t get out of bed. there was obviously something wrong with my heart and my lungs. this was in new york. you felt it as soon as you woke up? oh, yeah. i couldn t move really. there s an expression about i woke up feeling like death. i ve had that. this was not like that. you ve had some rough mornings? i thought maybe i m dying. and when you found out what kind of cancer it was, it s the same kind of cancer your father had? one of the first things i thought was, that s what killed the old man. my dad died of a heart attack when he was 50, and i really don t want to die of a heart attack. yes. for some odd reason the idea of dying not just the age