Andy Rooney, CBS News longtime resident Tightwad whose whimsical and acerbic essays on "60 minutes" turned rumpled writer's unlikely — and does — TV celebrities, died on Friday night, only weeks after retiring from the show. He was 92.
CBS announced the death of Rooney, who began his long career during the second world war as a correspondent for the military newspaper stars and stripes, and continues to be a fixture on "60 minutes" until he retired last month after 33 years.
25 October, the network said Rooney was hospitalized after developing serious complications following minor surgery.
For millions of Americans Rooney was welcome visitors into their homes on Sunday evenings, the old familiar faces, appearing for a few minutes at the end of one of the most highly rated programs in television history.
And if some of the audience award-winning newsmagazine pioneer TV saw him as a friend, neighbor or relative, they knew what to expect from a man who offered his views on a wide range of topics.
Curve. Curmudgeonly. Quaint. Make each. Mirror even scornful. Crank. The Complainant. Man of a thousand questions.
These are just some of the words, journalists used to describe people, TV Guide called "America's favorite grump."
Sitting for his registration in the Office of a small, cluttered at CBS in New York, said of Rooney in the camera, as if the viewer at home just dropped a short visit to see what in his opinion this week.
There is always something.
Designer jeans: «advertising facts fact significantly greater than the average American back. "
Bank name: "trust is a Word, banks, both in their names. There are certain names that they'd never use "Bankorama," for example ".
Baseball: "my own time goes fast enough without some national game to help it along".
But Rooney not just spend it several minutes on a seemingly trivial matters. In 2003, for example, he turned his attention to French for failing to support the war in Iraq.
He said that "you can't beat the French, when it comes to food, fashion, wine or spirits, but they lost their licenses have an opinion on World Affairs years ago". "The French have lost World War II the Germans for about 20 minutes.
With Rooney as his colleague, "60 minutes" Mike Wallace once said: "what you see is what you get."
"I never, never come across a man I admire more, respected more," Wallace said during the discussion on journalism in the World War I-in the Smithsonian Institution in the year 2004.
"He is a loyal, he is the honorary. He got the courage to speak his mind. And, thank God, we had the opportunity to give millions of Americans see him every Sunday night during the past few decades, "said Wallace.
Award-winning TV writer and producer for CBS news specials, narrated by Harry reasoning in the 1960 's — "Berdsej view of America" and "an essay on bridges," among them, Rooney began to appear on the camera itself as writer producer series discounts in the 70-ies.
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