Television icon Dick Clark, famously called the world’s oldest teenager, passed away today at the age of 82. To many, Clark is best known as the host of American Bandstand (from 1956 to 1989); to others, as the host of “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” (1972-2011, excluding 1999 and 2004). Obituaries can be found at Variety, CNN and The New York Times.
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He is also best remembered as emcee of the immensely popular $10,000 Pyramid and its numerous successors ($20/[New] 25/50/100,000) on CBS, ABC and in syndication between 1973 and 1988.
,,, its NEVER too late to add on here// Dick Clarks very last financial efforts revolved round investing in a complex for retired entertainers up in lenox Massachusetts near tanglewood in the 1980s***,,,, as the pattern ensued// IT NEVER JELLED.. so may projects were also slated at that time—-worth mentioning here was the estate of the Dovidanus;s– which was completel restored for the set of michael Caine’s masterpiece performance in CIDER HOUSE RULES.. (so monumental was that success that it was converted into the MUSEUM OF THE GILDED aGE===}=and along with Edith Wharton’s house THE MOUNT makes that area a must see—with priceless details unseen anywhere else in this USA==the retirement home in Englewood NJ here..still holds its torch though((**a book should be written about it all”)