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| | Mike Douglas Signs Off - Aug 11, 2006 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Mike Douglas, the genial namesake host of the 1963-1982 talk show that in its own genial way beamed the counterculture right into the American kitchenette, died on his 81st birthday Friday. |
 | | Douglas' wife, Genevieve Douglas, told the Associated Press that her husband passed away at a Palm Beach, Florida, hospital, one day after his admission. |
 | | Guests on Douglas' long-running show, which debuted on local TV in Cleveland in 1961, and went national two years later, were an eclectic bunch: Muhammad Ali; Liberace; Sly Stone; Judy Garland; Brian Wilson; the 2-year-old Tiger Woods (his TV debut); and the fully costumed, fully demonized KISS version of Gene Simmons. |
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