By Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times
January 25, 2021
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In this April 18, 2007, photo, Larry King speaks to guests at a party held by CNN, celebrating King s 50 years of broadcasting in New York. King, who interviewed presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes during a half-century in broadcasting, has died at age 87. ( AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, File)
I became a Larry King fan late – to have become one early I would have needed to listen to him from the cradle – and even in his CNN salad days, when “Larry King Live!” aired nightly over a quarter century, from 1985 to 2010, my attention was usually elsewhere. (I have had cause to watch the old shows since; they comprise an Alexandrian library of cultural history.)
I became a Larry King fan late — to have become one early I would have needed to listen to him from the cradle — and even in his CNN salad days, when “Larry King Live!” aired nightly over a quarter century, from 1985 to 2010, my attention was usually elsewhere. (I have had ca