Larry King is the King of the Awful Interview.  No one comes close.  Hence... it is difficult to come up with the "best" of his awful interviews.  For me, it will always be tough to top his interview with the Mahahaharishi. May 2002... 

The astronaut story is a doozy, though!  In other times, someone who made the grade and excelled as she did in her line of work and then went on to attempt to kill a lovelorn rival -- that would have been REALLY weird!  Today, with the bar raised so high, it's just weird. 

I'm much more interested in the Nowak case than I was in Natalie Holloway's Aruba one-night stand gone wrong.

Shawn Hornbeck?  Still into that sad story.

Lest we forget, there's the startling O'Neal family with Ryan and his gun, Griffin and the poker, and Redmond chained in the dog kennel.  Malibu makes for odd behavior.  Ask Mel Gibson or Nick Nolte or Robert Downey Jr.  Or Jeff Lebowski. 

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Ever watch Barry Lyndon? Didn't Ryan O'Neal kick his son's ass (well stepson, but no matter) in that film ? Its like Robert Blake Mark II

Life imitating art an all that...

It may be mostly an American thing but it has been as far back as I can remember. In 1963 after JFK was killed, a certain Larry Schiller was Johnny-on-the-spot with Marina Oswald seeking the story rights to her knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald. In the famous photo of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey, it is Schiller's forearm you see on the right side. Years later, Schiller and Norman Mailer would work together on Oswald's Tale, researching the Soviet years by traveling to Russia and delving within the old KGB files.

When Gary Gilmore, convicted murderer, was about to be executed in Utah, he made big news by proclaiming he was not only ready to die but wanted a firing squad as the means to that end. The ACLU tried to intervene and prevent the execution but were not successful. Who was there buying the rights to the Gary Gilmore story? Norman Mailer's rep -- Larry Schiller. It became the Norman Mailer book "The Executioner's Song" and later a TV movie starring Tommy Lee Jones (former college roommate of Al Gore) and Rosanna Arquette. 

Flash forward a couple decades and OJ Simpson kills his wife and Ron Goldman, waiter from Mezzaluna. Who implicates himself into the confidence of the jailbird, OJ? Lawrence Schiller, who then co-writes the book "I Want to Tell You" with OJ's version of events. Later he would write a hefty tome titled "An American Tragedy."

He was also there for the post-Jonbenet Ramsay bone picking.

There are others besides Schiller, of course, but every tragedy or big news story carries with it the vultures who pay for the rights to tell the story.  No doubt they have descended onto every family member and friend of all involved in the astronaut story. Movie of the week? Book, for sure.  Probably more than one. Theatrical release? Doubtful. No murder.

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin