Description
Tell It to the King is a marvelous book of true tales and tall stories from the king of late-night radio and television. In his thirty years of broadcasting, thousands of the greatest, the funniest, the most talented and inspired, and sometimes the weirdest men and women in America, have passed through Larry King's life, both personal and professional, and he has a story to tell about every one of them.
With the talespinning style People calls "con- versational genius," made up of equal parts humor, warmth, street savvy and a fine attention to detail, King brings us into the worlds of celebrity, sports, show business, comedy and Washington politics as only he can.
โข JFK takes time out from the Cuban missile crisis to ask Robert McNamara for a secretary's name and number ("After all, we may avoid
war tonight") โข Two old warriors, a disgraced Nixon and a dying Humphrey, reminisce together about
cancer, Watergate and old times
โข Lily Tomlin berates a listener for leaving
her in the desperate throes of passion ("A note, Phil? That's all you could leave was a note?"). โข Laurence Olivier almost steals the part of
the Godfather
โข Marlon Brando struggles to remember the name of Apocalypse Now ("Is that the one where I was bald?")
Frank Sinatra gets a bizarre comeuppance
Eugene McCarthy remembers the night of RFK's assassination ("I heard him say, 'On to Chicago, and I thought, I'm on to Chicago, too, you little pipsqueak. Five minutes later, the phone rang")
โข Jackie Robinson executes a long-delayed scheme to get even with a tormentor
โข Larry King gets an offer he can't refuse, to emcee a Mafia-run benefit
