OK, this just sucks. It’s bad enough Andy Rooney’s gone and we feel bad about it, but his college roommate died at a luncheon in his honor? Sigh. Hey, dude up above us making all the moves, mind just giving Andy a break for a couple of days? Thanks.
EDIT: Back from the dead! The Gods do listen to this blog!
Dear Andy Rooney: We miss you, even if we made fun of you a lot. :( You were an American treasure, even when your opinions were controversial, and it sucks that you died. Peace out, curmudgeonly icon.
Andy Rooney hospitalized for “serious complications”: We’ve made a lot of jokes at his expense in the past, but seriously, we hope he’s OK.
Andy Rooney interviewed by Ali G.
A good coda for the end of Andy Rooney’s curmudgeonly career, in which he offers to loan Ali G one of his 50 books on the English language.
I’m not retiring. Writers don’t retire, and I’ll always be a writer.Andy Rooney • In his final “A few minutes with Andy Rooney” moment on “60 Minutes.” Nice to see he didn’t smooth off the edges even as he was sad about leaving his job.
Airing now? Andy Rooney’s final “60 Minutes” episode: “There have been many curmudgeons on television over its long history,” Morely Safer said, “but none has been so long-serving in that role as Mr. Rooney - the grandpa Moses of broadcasting. At age 92, perhaps Grandpa Methuselah would be more fitting.” The full clip is over here.
In honor of Andy Rooney’s pending retirement from being the full-time resident complainer on “60 Minutes,” our favorite clip from the curmudgeonly icon of complaining about things he doesn’t understand. In this case, eBooks. Rooney will reportedly make occasional appearances, which is the television way of saying, “we like you, but you’re too old.” (Larry King made a similar exit from CNN under this pretense last year.) Rooney is a youthful 92 years old.
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“I’m not interested in having my books on an electronic device,” Andy Rooney said in his ‘Final Thought’ segment Sunday night on 60 Minutes. “I want them in books. I want my words in books.”
Immediately after watching his segment, courtesy of the Short Form Blog, I typed Rooney’s name into my Kindle. Six of his books appear in the Kindle store. The book Rooney claims is for “free” on e-readers, The Fortunes of War, isn’t available in the Kindle Store or on Google Books at all.
Good man. He was using a first-generation Nook, for what it’s worth. And the Nook book is free.
Andy Rooney is a national treasure. May nobody take away his physical books and replace them with an Amazon Kindle. He thinks that they’re better than jelly donuts, even. And we all know how good jelly donuts are, guys. They’re about as good as hearing a curmudgeonly old kook do his thang. (Editor’s note: Sorry we haven’t done these lately! We’re making up for it tonight!)
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