Rooney has the last word on '60 Minutes'
Andy Rooney, 92, said goodbye to "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney" on Sunday night. It was the 1,097th edition of his well-known video essay, a regular feature of the CBS news magazine "60 Minutes" since 1978. That is a lot of things to have been mystified, troubled, angered, moved or amused by, and a lot of years over which to be mystified, troubled, angered, moved and amused by them. Viewer reactions to Rooney's pieces ranged similarly.
"There is so much going on in the world," Rooney told newsman Morley Safer (a whippersnapper at 79) in the interview that preceded his last "Few Minutes." "I would be embarrassed to say I couldn't write a column."
His subjects, ranging from the trivial to the momentous, included cookbooks, car names, dairy subsidies, the moon, pennies, arms control, warning labels, astrology, Clarence Thomas, the homeless, drug companies, Matisse, ghostwriters, television magazine shows, classified ads, Rodney King, Martha Stewart, the jury system, cold remedies, parking for the disabled, two Iraq wars, women on submarines, the NBA, 9/11, the death of Osama bin Laden, e-books, his eyebrows and the stuff on his desk: "Staple remover, one of the great inventions of modern times - better than the staple, I think."
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