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Inside Larry King's Towering Legacy: An Intrepid Interviewer Who Just Loved to Ask Questions
Jan 23, 2021
It was reported Jan. 2 that the Brooklyn native, born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on Nov. 19, 1933, had been hospitalized with COVID-19 . King had diabetes and had battled a number of health issues in recent years, including heart disease, a diagnosis of lung cancer in 2017 and a mild stroke in 2019 that rendered him unable to walk without assistance. In hindsight it makes sense that it would take a pileup of issues to fell the man who only missed 10 days on the air following a heart attack and quintuple bypass surgery in 1987. Yet after his own father died at 44 of a heart attack when his son was 9, King hadn't counted on growing old. "I never thought I'd be 86," he told Page Six in 2019 after his stroke. "I have no complaints. Everything that's happened to me, I'm grateful for. Maybe that sounds clichéd, but I'm really, really grateful." With his trademark suspenders and perpetual hunch as he fired off questions to whomever was in the hot seat, the much-married broadcaster had long since become as much of a celebrity as any of the actors, musicians, presidents and other newsmakers he interviewed on radio, TV and, starting in 2012, his Ora TV talk show Larry King Now , which he continued to host into 2020.
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