From 'Live!' to 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' and beyond, Regis Philbin, who died Friday at 88, was TV's consummate host: welcoming, energetic, irascible.
‘People who never met him feel as though they’ve lost a personal friend,’ New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted.So extensive are his credits that merely to read them is exhausting. That his career flowered from a bed of early failures suggests that the problem was less Philbin’s than television’s, and the arrival of the right vehicle.
It’s not too much to say that Philbin’s years on “Live!” comprise a kind of incidental diary of New York City life, or a certain segment of it in the late 20th and early 21st century. Where many TV hosts have been famously private about their off-camera lives, Philbin was always forthcoming. Perhaps this has something to do with his greatest success being as a daytime host, working alongside women.
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