Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Want to know how ambitious Larry King, the top banana of talk-show hosts, is? When King, born Larry Zeiger, was growing up in Brooklyn, New York, and indifferent about school, his father went to the principal and suggested that Larry's teacher install him as eraser monitor. Most kids would have been horrified. Eraser monitors come in early, stay late, get all dusty with chalk, get razzed by classmates. But little Larry Zeiger thought the job was a promotion. Sitting out there on the playground, pounding erasers together and choking on chalk dust, he thought...
...that weren't enough, USA Today runs King's weekly column of plugs and random thoughts (some quite a bit more random than others). And last week a new King book -- When You're from Brooklyn, Everything Else Is Tokyo -- was published by Little, Brown. On the lecture circuit, King pulls in $35,000 an appearance, and his total annual income is well over $2 million. Says King: "I'm 58 years old, and I'm having the best year of my life...
...speaks, he is standing on the balcony of his posh eighth-floor apartment in Arlington, Virginia. He waves an arm through the air. "Some view, huh?" he says in his famed Brooklyn baritone. Some view: first the Potomac River, then a panorama of marble. Directly ahead, in a precise line, are the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Capitol. To the left is the Kennedy Center; to the right, the Jefferson Memorial. From his balcony King can also see the Watergate apartments, the home of his childhood friend Herbie Cohen, a successful lawyer and consultant. King used to tell...
...former Dodger said he'd never been to New Haven, and although he did grow up in the same neighborhood as King, they did not really become friends until they were adults. So why did King make the story up? Part of the answer may lie in that Brooklyn playground where the little boy proudly pounded erasers. King, the son of Russian-immigrant Jewish parents, was one of those kids who, if they don't like the way things are, imagine them to be better. Ask him about the Koufax business, and he shrugs and looks away. "I tell...
...film follows Jimmy (Peter Greene) and Jon (Adam Trese) as they spend their days roaming their Brooklyn neighborhood, stealing from unlocked cars, shoplifting (Jon admonishes Jimmy for grabbing low-quality shampoo--"You know what that stuff does to your hair?") and hanging out with their girlfriends, Denise (Edie Falco) and Celia (Arabella Field...