#60 MINUTES ANDY ROONEY DIES TV#
Daughter Emily Rooney is a former executive producer of ABC’s “World News Tonight.Andy Rooney, the 60 Minutes comedic curmudgeon who delighted TV audiences with his wry observations on life’s little annoyances for 33 years, has died, CBS News announced on its website early Saturday. Rooney and his wife, Marguerite, had four children and lived in Rowayton, Conn. They included the 1947 book, “Their Conqueror’s Peace: A Report to the American Stockholders,” documenting offenses against the Germans by occupying forces. Hutton, Rooney wrote four books about the war. With another former Stars and Stripes staffer, Oram C. College at Colgate University was cut short by World War II, where Rooney worked for the GI newspaper Stars and Stripes. 14, 1919, in Albany, N.Y., and worked as a copy boy on the Albany Knickerbocker News while in high school. “I’m in a position of feeling secure enough so that I can say what I think is right and if so many people think it’s wrong that I get fired, well, I’ve got enough to eat,” Rooney said at the time.Īndrew Aitken Rooney was born on Jan. After the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, he said he was chastened by its quick fall but didn’t regret his “60 Minutes” commentaries. More recently, he was one of television’s few voices to strongly oppose the war in Iraq at the time it began. It’s a lot more pleasurable a sensation than feeling threatened.” Even in petty things in my life I tend to strike back. “One of my major shortcomings - I’m vindictive. “Your piece made me mad,” Rooney told Moore two years later. The AP switchboard was flooded by some 7,000 phone calls. On Rooney’s next “60 Minutes” appearance, he invited those who disagreed to make their opinions known. In 1996, AP television writer Frazier Moore wrote a column suggesting it was time for Rooney to retire. The Associated Press learned the danger of getting on Rooney’s cranky side. Gay rights groups were mad during the AIDS epidemic when Rooney mentioned homosexual unions in saying “many of the ills which kill us are self-induced.” Indians protested when Rooney suggested that Native Americans who made money from casinos weren’t doing enough to help their own people. CBS suspended him for three months in 1990 for allegedly racist remarks in an interview, which he denied making. Rooney’s words occasionally got him in trouble, too. Comic Joe Piscopo satirized Rooney’s squeaky voice with the refrain, “Did you ever wonder …” The segment of Rooney’s musings quickly became a favorite feature of television’s oldest and most successful newsmagazine.
In fact, he said, the Fourth of July is “one of the safest weekends of the year to be going someplace.” Rooney complained about people who keep track of how many people die in car accidents on holiday weekends. “A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney” aired on “60 Minutes” for the first time on July 2, 1978. Rooney Goes to Washington,” whose lighthearted but serious look at government won him a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. He returned to CBS three years later as a writer and producer of specials. He went on TV for the first time, reading the essay on PBS and winning a Writers Guild of America award for it. Rooney angrily left CBS in 1970 when it refused to air his heated essay about the Vietnam War. Nobody knows that I’m a writer and producer. “But nobody knows I can do it or ever did it. He wrote “An Essay on Doors” in 1964, and continued with contemplations on bridges, chairs and women. With Rooney as the writer, they collaborated on several news specials, including an Emmy-winning report on misrepresentations of black Americans in movies and history books. Rooney wrote for CBS stars such as Arthur Godfrey and Garry Moore during the 1950s and early 1960s, before settling into a partnership with newsman Harry Reasoner. He told viewers that Calvin Coolidge’s 1925 swearing-in was the first to be broadcast on radio, adding, “That may have been the most interesting thing Coolidge ever did.” In early 2009, as he was about to turn 90, he looked ahead to Barack Obama’s upcoming inauguration with a look at past inaugurations.
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