拉里·金
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拉里·金（Larry King，原名Lawrence Harvey Zeigler，1933年11月19日—），是一个获奖电视节目主持人。他现在主持一档世界范围内每晚播岀的访谈类节目拉里·金现场。 金在布鲁克林(Brooklyn)长大并读完公立中学。他的童年玩伴包括棒球投手Sandy Koufax和 New York Mets的老板Fred Wilpon。他在布鲁克林的本森赫斯特(Bensonhurst)生活过一段时间。高中毕业后，金曾做过零工，包括AMC和UPS的临时邮差。 他22岁时为了找一份广播工作离开布鲁克林来到迈阿密。
[编辑] 杀入广播圈金通过坚持得到了第一份广播工作。迈阿密海滩的一个小电台WAHR台雇佣他做清洁和各种杂活，当他们的一个播音员辞职时，他被推进了播音间。金的第一次广播是在1957年5月1日他作为DJ从早9点工作到了中午。他也播报两个午后新闻节目及作体育解说，薪水是每周55美圆。他把名字改成了拉里·金，因为总经理认为Zeigler民族特征太明显而且不容易记住。他开始在迈阿密海滩的帕姆坡尼餐厅做晨间采访。金会采访走进来的任何人，他的第一位受访者是一个餐厅侍者。 他的迈阿密广播节目使他成了当地不大不小的明星。几年后，1960年5月开始，他在10频道主持每星期天晚11：30播出的"迈阿密秘密调查"。在节目中他主持当日重要时事的辩论。 [编辑] 法律和财务问题In the early 1970s, he was entangled in legal and financial troubles. He was arrested on December 20, 1971 and charged with grand larceny. The charges stemmed from a deal he had made with Louis Wolfson. In 1968, Wolfson was convicted of selling unregistered stock. The circumstances are unclear. According to King, he told Wolfson that he could arrange a special investigation by John Mitchell, the incoming US Attorney General, to overturn the conviction. Wolfson agreed, and paid King $48,000. King never delivered, and couldn't pay back the money. When Wolfson was released from prison, he went after King. According to Wolfson, King served as an intermediary between Wolfson and New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. Garrison was investigating the assassination of President Kennedy, but needed to raise funds for the investigation. Wolfson offered to pay $25,000 to help fund the investigation. The arrangement was that Wolfson gave Larry King cash (about $5,000 per visit). King was supposed to give this to Richard Gerstein, the State Attorney for Dade County. Gerstein was to transfer the money to Garrison. This took place over a year or two. Wolfson eventually found that not all the money he gave to King made it to Garrison. The larceny charge was dropped, because the statute of limitations had run out. But King pled no contest to one of 14 charges of passing bad checks. As a result of these troubles, he was off the air for three years. During those three years he worked several jobs. He was the PR director at a race track in Louisiana and he wrote some articles for Esquire Magazine, including a major piece on New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath. [编辑] 重回荧屏Eventually he was rehired on the radio in Miami. In 1978 he went national. He hosted a nightly talk show on the Mutual Radio Network that was broadcast coast-to-coast. It ran until 1994. For a time it overlapped with his CNN show, giving him a reputation as a tireless worker. He started his CNN show in June 1985. Unlike many interviewers, Larry King has a direct, non-confrontational approach. His interview style is characteristically frank and no-nonsense, but with occasional bursts of irreverence and humor. His non-confrontational approach attracts some guests who would not otherwise appear. Throughout his career he has interviewed many of the leading figures of his time. Among his most famous interviews were Tony Blair, Marlon Brando, Barbara Bush, Johnny Carson, Bette Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Jackie Gleason, Mikhail Gorbachev, Billy Graham, Audrey Hepburn, Gordon B. Hinckley, Bob Hope, L. Ron Hubbard, Michael Jordan, Bobby Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Monica Lewinsky, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Al Pacino, H. Ross Perot, Prince, Nancy Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pete Rose, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Margaret Thatcher, Oprah Winfrey and Malcolm X. In all, he has interviewed over 40,000 people. His large glasses, rolled up sleeves, tie, and suspenders have become his trademark, and he never appears on the show wearing anything different. His various personal interests, such as his love of sports and his hometown of New York City, are frequently brought up in interviews, both by King himself and the interviewee. He has received many broadcasting awards. He won the Peabody Award for Excellence in broadcasting for both his radio (1982) and television (1992) shows. He has also won 10 Cable ACE awards for Best Interviewer and for best Talk Show Series. [编辑] 社会和家庭King has been generous in giving back to the community. After suffering several heart attacks, he established the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, an organization to which David Letterman, through his American Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming, has also contributed. King gave $1 million to George Washington University's School of Media and Affairs for scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Larry King has been married seven times, including two marriages to the same woman. His current wife is singer Shawn Southwick. He has fathered five children from his various marriages: Andy, Larry Jr., Chaia, Chance and Cannon. [编辑] 资源
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