Top 15 Facts About Andy Rooney
by Spill Guy on 05/11/11 at 3:54 pm
This is a list of the top 15 interesting facts you might not have known about Andy Rooney.
15. Andrew Aitken “Andy” Rooney was an American radio and television writer.
14. Born Andrew Aitken Rooney on January 14, 1919 in Albany, New York.
13. He’s most notable for his weekly broadcast “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney”, a part of the CBS News program 60 Minutes.
12. He attended The Albany Academy and later attended Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
11. Was the first American journalist to visit the German concentration camps.
10. His script for ‘Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed’ won him his first Emmy Award.
9. Rooney’s final regular appearance on 60 Minutes was on October 2, 2011 after 33 years on the show.
8. His wife of 62 years, Marguerite “Margie” Rooney (née Howard), died in 2004 of heart failure.
7. He also wrote, produced and narrated a series of broadcasts for CBS News on various aspects of America and American life.
6. Rooney was hospitalized on October 25, 2011 for developing postoperative complications, and died on November 4, 2011, at the age of 92.
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5. In February 1943, flying with the Eighth Air Force, he was one of six correspondents who flew on the second American bombing raid over Germany.
4. Rooney’s segment on 60 Minutes, “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney” began in 1978 as a summer replacement for the debate segment “Point/Counterpoint.”
3. He was suspended without pay for three months due to the negative publicity around him saying that “too much alcohol, too much food, drugs, homosexual unions, cigarettes are all known to lead to premature death.”
2. In a 1994 segment, Rooney attracted controversy with his remarks on Kurt Cobain’s suicide stating that he had never heard of Cobain nor his band, Nirvana.
1. In a 2007 column, he wrote, “I know all about Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but today’s baseball stars are all guys named Rodriguez to me.”
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