Thursday, May 27, 2010

TV's 'People Are Funny' host Art Linkletter dies


By LYNN ELBER, AP Entertainment
Wed May 26, 2010

LOS ANGELES – Art Linkletter, who as the gently mischievous host of TV's "People Are Funny" and "House Party" in the 1950s and '60s delighted viewers with his ability to get kids — and grownups — to say the darndest things on national television, died Wednesday. He was 97.

Linkletter died at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, said his son-in-law, Art Hershey, the husband of Sharon Linkletter.

"He lived a long, full, pure life, and the Lord had need for him," Hershey said. the rest

RIP Art Linkletter

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