The Larry Sanders Show, the HBO series (1992-1998) about a fictional TV talk show, starred Garry Shandling as Larry Sanders; Jeffrey Tambor as Hank Kingsley, the talk show's announcer and sidekick; and Rip Torn, as Artie, the show's producer. Rip Torn died this week, at age 88.
The show--which I wrote about previously, in this space (when Garry Shandling died, in 2016)--was one of the great programs in television history.
Rip Torn was a vibrant, compelling, gifted actor. In 1996, he received the Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series," for his performances on The Larry Sanders Show. He was nominated five other times for his work on the program.
An obituary about Mr. Torn, in The Washington Post, included the following, from Garry Shandling:
"He has his demons, Rip does, and you have to work through them," Shandling said in a 2011 interview with the Television Academy Foundation.“But you get something really deeply genuine. It’s so alive.”
Here is the full obituary from the Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rip-torn-volatile-actor-who-gained-comic-renown-on-the-larry-sanders-show-dies-at-88/2019/07/11/23dc1d8e-a31b-11e9-b8c8-75dae2607e60_story.html
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Andrew Fielding, while host of a radio talk show in Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996
A Book About Network Television in the late 1940s and early 1950s, by Andrew Lee Fielding. Originally published in 2007 by BearManor Media. Revised Edition published in 2019. See also: www.andrewleefielding.com
A Blog About Early Television...Later Television...The Big Band period...and other matters of history, family, and popular culture...
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"The Lucky Strike Papers"--subtitled "Journeys Through My Mother's Television Past"--profiles such early network television shows as "Your Hit Parade" (also known as "The Lucky Strike Hit Parade"), "Kay Kyser's College of Musical Knowledge," and "The Freddy Martin Show." Author Andrew Fielding's late mother, Sue Bennett, sang on these programs, and others, in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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Andrew Fielding, while host of a radio talk show in Charlottesville, Virginia, 1996
About Me
- Andrew Lee Fielding
- Andrew Fielding has written for The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Providence Journal, The Philadelphia Daily News, Horizon Magazine, and other publications. He has also worked as a radio talk show host--in Philadelphia, in suburban Philadelphia, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and in northern New Jersey. He was also, for three years, the host of a weekly talk show on a nostalgia-oriented Internet radio station. His book about early television, "The Lucky Strike Papers," was published in December, 2007 by BearManor Media. A revised edition of the book was brought out in January of 2019.