LARRY KING, HOST: Tonight: TV trailblazer Morton Downey Jr. is dead after a brave fight against lung cancer. We'll share memories with his wife, Lori, and three of his daughters, and we'll also look ...

In the history of TV talk shows, few characters made as big a splash as Morton Downey Jr. For two years in the late ’80s, his uniquely repulsive charisma and unabashed abrasiveness made him the ...

Used to be to get famous in the rightwing blowhard racket, you had to have an act. Not today. Has anyone ever once thought, “Oh, I can’t wait to hear what Sean Hannity’s going to say next”? (Or ...

No one's proposed a moment of silence for Morton Downey Jr. Good. "Mort the Mouth" would have bristled. The father of trash TV, who died of lung cancer last month at 67, was the ultimate loudmouth. He ...