Meet the extraordinary career of Larry King 2:40
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(CNN Spanish) -
A life well told is sometimes more interesting than a life well lived.
And Larry King seemed to have it clear.
When the legendary presenter died in mid-January, the usual happened: that superlative adjectives did not reveal who the journalist had been and how he had lived who for more than 25 years at CNN interviewed everyone who deserved to be interviewed, from movie stars and world leaders even what the most ordinary people call "common people."
But
My Great Story
, the memoirs published in 2009, rescue Larry King from such grandiose occasion.
Whoever reads those 300 pages —which can be read and reread— may be able to get closer to the man who continued to be, in essence, that rogue from Brooklyn capable of anything, but above all of speaking, of rearranging the world with words.
That's why they called him the loose mouth.
Rarely does one come across memoirs of a television celebrity that do not seem to belong to a television celebrity.
In his book, Larry King says that he always considered himself "common people", with an almost permanent desire to laugh at everything, starting with himself.
That said, he didn't look like a celebrity.
And I think that's why, precisely because of that, it triumphed on TV and earlier on the radio.
And in his own way, in life.
The "common people" must have something.
Someday we will find out.
Seeing is believing.
Larry king
