Andy
Rooney, whose barbed wit long basis CBS News, and whose
homespun commentary on "60 Minutes", is delivered every week from
1978 to 2011, made him a household name, died on Friday in New York.He was 92
and lived in Manhattan, although he had a family holiday home in
Rensselaerville, New York, and the first house he ever bought, in Rowayton,
Conn.
CBS News said in a statement that Mr. Rooney died after complications
following minor surgery.
In late September, CBS announced that Mr. Rooney would have made his last
regular weekly appearance on the "60 Minutes" on Oct. 2. After
that, said Jeff Fager, chairman of CBS News and executive producer of the
program, he "always have the opportunity to voice their opinions on
60-Minutes», when the urge hits him. "
But little more than three weeks after the appearance, CBS announced that
Mr. Rooney was hospitalized after developing "serious complications"
of unspecified operation.
Mr. Rooney joined television shortly after the Second World War, he wrote
material for artists such as Arthur Godfrey, Victor Borge, Herb Shriner Sam
Levenson and Gary Moore. Since
1962, he was six years with CBS News correspondent Harry Reasoner, who gave a
series of Everyman "essay," written by Mr. Rooney.
But it was "a few minutes with Andy
Rooney," his weekly segment on "60 Minutes" that made him
one of the most popular figures in the broadcasting country. On
his cheeks, bushy eyebrows, deep-circled eyes and old age, he seemed every inch
of homespun philosopher, as he turned mostly mundane objects with varying
degrees of befuddlement, frustration, and sometimes even fun.
He acknowledged, loving football, Christmas, tennis, woodworking, and
Dwight D. Eisenhower, one of the few politicians who won his approval, because,
as General of the Army during World War II, he refused to censor the Stars and
Stripes, and G. .
The newspaper, for which Mr. Rooney worked. He
also argued that, as a shining shoes and pressed trousers and right were
machine in his office to take care of those functions, but somehow he always
managed to look rumpled.
But he was better known for what he does not like. He
railed against the "two-prong plugs with three prongs of society,"
the incomprehensibility of road maps, wash-and-jacket "that can be washed,
but not be" useless box keys and locks, and oversized grains, which
contain very little oatmeal.
"I do not like any music, I can not hum," he growled.He noted
that "There is more beauty than there are beautiful women" and that
"if dogs could talk, it would take a lot of fun owning one."He made
it clear he thought that Gen. George S. Patton and Ernest Hemingway, both of
whom he knew personally, were gasbags. He
did not like New Year's Eve, waiting in line for any reason, and treasurers to
any college of his children attended.
Once he concluded that "it is possible to be silent and be president
of the college," but he acknowledged that "most college students are
not as smart as the majority of college presidents."In higher education,
he said that most college catalogs "are among the great works of fiction
of all time" and that the student is dull intellect, which could raise the
money to education would have found "almost impossible to flunk out."
Time magazine once called him "the most successful nonfiction writer
in television." But Mr. Rooney was
definitely not everyone's cup of tea.
The New York Times, Anna Quindlen, for example, took strong issue with the
dismissive comments, Mr. Rooney after Kurt Cobain of Nirvana's committed
suicide in 1994. It
was not surprising, she wrote, that Mr. Rooney, "brought the issue of
youth despair mixture of sarcasm and contempt," but it was "worth
noting, because in 1994 this kind of attitude, both on and stupid as to believe
that cancer is contagious.
"Opinion, Mr. Rooney sometimes led him into trouble. In
1990, CBS News suspended him without pay in response to complaints that he had
made remarks offensive to black and gay.
Trigger December 1989 special, "The Year With Andy Rooney" in
which he said: "There was some recognition in 1989 that many ills which
kill us are self-induced. Too much alcohol, too much food, drugs, homosexual
unions, cigarettes .
They all know, often leads to premature death. "He later apologized for
the statement.
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