Larry King, legendary Jewish TV interviewer, dies at 87 Larry King during an interview with Ross Perot in 1993. (Jeffrey Markowitz/Sygma via Getty Images)
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(JTA) Larry King, the iconic Jewish radio and TV interviewer who never met a subject he didn’t seem to like, has died at 87.
King died Saturday at a hospital in Los Angeles. His company Ora Media released the announcement and did not list a cause, but King had been hospitalized recently with the coronavirus.
King often recalled sometimes with elaborate embellishment his roots as a poor Jewish kid in Brooklyn, where he was born Lawrence Zeiger. One of his first broadcast employers, in Miami, had him change his name to King, saying Zeiger sounded too ethnic.
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[Author’s Note: With reports that Larry King, the 87-year-old broadcasting legend is being treated for the COVID-19 virus, I thought I’d reprint a book review I wrote on his “
Remarkable Journey.”]
“Ah Come-mahhhn!” the Brooklynder said. “This guy with two dollars left to his name; down on his luck; finds himself at a racetrack holding every winning ticket – to win, the exacta, the trifecta – and he collects eight-thousand dollars?” Yep!
This is just one of many suspenseful accounts detailed in a new book by world-renowned talk show host Larry King titled “My Remarkable Journey” (Weinstein Books, 2009).
Born Larry Zeiger, King grew up in and around Brooklyn New York where he developed lifelong friendships with amazing characters who are endearingly mentioned throughout the book. Accounts of their many adventures are so compelling and thrilling that it’s hard to put the book down. For instance, as teenagers, a group of them drove over three hours from