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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 17 > Les Crane’s late-night talk show tried a new approach

Les Crane’s late-night talk show tried a new approach

By Elaine Woo / The Bulletin
July 17, 2008

Les Crane, called the “bad boy of late-night television” when he vied for ratings against talk-show king Johnny Carson in the mid-1960s, died of natural causes Sunday at Marin General Hospital north of San Francisco. He was 74.

His death was announced by his daughter, Caprice....

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