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Longtime Talk Show Host Phil Donahue Died at Age 88 After ‘Long Illness’
Legendary talk show post Phil Donahue has died at age 88 following a ‘long illness’
Donahue was surrounded by his wife of 44 years, veteran TV and film actress Marlo Thomas, along with “his sister, his children, grandchildren and his beloved golden retriever, Charlie.” The family asked that in lieu of flowers, friends and fans make a donation to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or the Phil Donahue/Notre Dame Scholarship Fund. But to be honest, even though the medium has changed a bit — the sets are fancier, the productions are slicker, and the hosts are thankfully more diverse — all of the talk shows still cleave to the one thing that laid at the foundation of the 7,000 episodes I taped, and that’s curiosity.”
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