MERV GRIFFIN (1925-2007)

Here talk-show host Merv Griffin talks with Patti LuPone while Madeline Kahn sits on the sidelines, quite possibly disapproving.



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WWW. "I saw Sammy interviewed by Merv. Sammy talked about how NBC had given him the opportunity to be the first colored cat to have his own variety show. But I remember Nat Cole's show from about ten years ago, I think on NBC too. Is anybody keeping track of TV's history?"--Excerpt from a letter, circa March 1966, found in shredded papers blown down into an alley in Las Vegas in 1997

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