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CNN’s Larry King says he’s ending show
NEW YORK
Larry King says he’s stepping down this fall from the prime-time show that has anchored CNN’s lineup for 25 years.
All manner of statesmen, newsmakers and Hollywood stars have sat across his desk for plain-spoken interviews during the past quarter-century, but “Larry King Live” has been suffering in the ratings, and there’s been speculation about his future.
King said in a message he sent via Twitter: “It’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders.”
Seattle writer wins bad-writing contest
SAN JOSE, Calif.
An unseemly sentence that compares a kiss to the union of a thirsty gerbil and a giant water bottle has won the top prize in an annual bad-writing contest.
San Jose State University said Tuesday that Molly Ringle of Seattle was the grand-prize winner of the 2010 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.
In her entry, Ringle describes a “lengthy, ravenous kiss” between two lovers: “Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.”
The literary competition honors the memory of 19th-century writer Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton.
Entrants are asked to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.
Eden writing memoir
NEW YORK
Barbara Eden says she’s been bottled up long enough.
The 75-year-old Eden, is the former star of “I Dream of Jeannie,” and she is writing a memoir to be published by Crown Archetype.
Crown Archetype Vice President Tina Constable says “Jeannie Out of the Bottle” will be published next spring.
Eden co-starred with Larry Hagman in the ’60s TV series about a genie.
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