Yes, sad. At least he didn’t take anyone with him.
A big holiday weekend and he’s picking up strangers in a bar.
Very sad indeed. Says a lot about family ties.
Very sad.
What a tragedy! I had no idea Koppel was facing this in his personal life. Now he joins a sad club of celebrities whose children have died from drugs or booze or suicide...Fred Thompson’s daughter comes to mind
I wonder if he had a wife and/or children?
RIP. Condolences to the Koppel family.
I’m very sorry. Prayer bump
“they met at a bar on 44th St. and Ninth Ave”
Hubby used to work at a bar right there, serious drinkers only, please.
This is very sad for the Koppel family, they have my condolences.
I feel for any parent that loses a child. My thoughts and prayers go out to the Koppel family.
The progenny of celebrities and many times the celebrities themselves are out of control.
Look at Michael Douglas’s sons.
Look at Lindsay Lohan.
Look at Mel Gibson.
Look at Nick Nolte.
And they are only the tip of the iceberg.
Celebrities and their progency are mostly liberals and as such have this gross sense of entitlement, a feeling that they can do and say anything without any consequences, a feeling just like politicians that they are above the law and that they are so elitist that the laws do not apply to them.
40 years old, and all he had was the bottle. How sad.
New Prime-Time Sitcoms Kill the Family Hour
The TV networks have announced their fall lineups and two upcoming shows will be serving up some highly offensive material: the Twitter-inspired CBS sitcom titled “$#*! My Dad Says” and the NBC comedy “Friends with Benefits.”
During what used to be called the family hour (8:30 p.m.), “$#*! My Dad Says” will feature former “Star Trek” Captain William Shatner as a profanity-laden, modern day Archie Bunker.
Groups and individuals, including the Parents Television Council, are considering filing complaints with the FCC over the show.
The series is adapted from a Twitter page called “Sh** My Dad Says.” CBS plans to advertise the program by having the announcer instead say, “Bleep My Dad Says.”
Meanwhile, NBC is moving beyond the amorality of the now-syndicated “Friends” show to a new sitcom that celebrates friends engaging in lots of sex together with the not-so-subtle title “Friends with Benefits.”
The network’s synopsis reads: “Ben, Sara, Hoon, Aaron, and Riley are a group of close friends who do just that. After a bad date, they turn to each other for moral (and sometimes physical) support. Hey, what are friends for?”
“Friends with Benefits” is expected to premiere sometime in 2011.
Guess the family hour is officially dead.
What you sow, so shall ye reap.
I’m the mom of an only child. There is no day in my life that I’m not on my knees thanking God that he doesn’t drink a drop or do drugs. It’s such a crapshoot. I’ve seen the most decent and able parents end up with a substance abuser child, and I’ve seen total loser parents wind up with a teetotaler.
I wouldn’t wish anything like this event on my worst enemy.
Dear God, please watch over all involved in this terrible thing.
Television and radio outlets have approached former New York x. Eliot Spitzer about hosting a news show, according to published reports.
Speculation about a media move by Spitzer, a Democrat who resigned in March 2008 over a prostitution scandal, was touched off when the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday that CNN had spoken with Spitzer about taking over the 8 p.m. time spot soon to be vacated by Campbell Brown.
“The network is even considering bringing in disgraced former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer,” the Examiner stated.
Spitzer told the Examiner there had been no talks with CNN, and CNN declined to comment on the report.
“People close to Spitzer said the CNN job would fail to offer Spitzer the platform he is looking for,” according to the Washington Post, which reported on Thursday that “several” media outlets have approached Spitzer about a job.
A source said: “He’d want to be unburdened to say what he thinks.”
One consideration weighing against a move to CNN could be the stiff competition he would face in the 8 p.m. time slot. Brown’s show attracts an average of 591,000 viewers, according to Nielsen Co. ratings, while MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann draws 1.03 million and Bill O’Reilly pulls in 3.34 million on Fox News.
But a move to MSNBC could be in the works for Spitzer. He appears often on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and recently filled in for anchor Dylan Ratigan on the network, “where the left-of-center politics are more amenable to his analysis about regulation reform, Wall Street abuses or other issues he is asked to comment on,” the Post reported.
And a source told the Post: “Spitzer has been courting MSNBC, and they have been courting him.”
But Spitzer could have greater ambitions. Asked by a New York television news show if he would consider a return to public office, he responded: “Am I ruling it out? No.”
More evidence that network TV is the vast wasteland, providing more evidence of why television is called “the idiot box”.
If one wants an education, important and true news and entertaining programming let me offer the following cable TV outlets: TCM FOR MOVIES, FOX NEWS CHANNEL FOR NEWS, THE HISTORY CHANNEL AND THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL FOR HISTORICAL AND OTHER ENTERTAINING PROGRAMMING, FOX BUSINESS NETWORK FOR BUSINESS NEWS and TVLAND for great old TV show reruns.
What a waste. Very sad.
Condolences to the Family.
Very sad event.
Sad, I’m glad for all the alcohol and drug abuse education in school now days. The DARE IMO is a great program. Neither of my kids drink alcohol at all, much less abuse it. I will always remember Ted Koppel during the Iran Hostage crisis. His Nightline news was the best one on covering that during that time.
I’m very sorry to hear this. Prayers for him and his family.