and jimmy breslin is the best living example of this.expressed the soul of new york city for decades. his no-b.s. independence and commitment to telling a story developed to devoted readership, memorably expressed in this clip from "when harry met sally." >> first, let me say, i'm not a big fan of jimmy breslin. >> well, he's why i became a writer, but that's not important. >> breslin was so famous in his prime that he became that rare reporter who was called on by ad agencies to give credibility to their beer pitches. >> i'm jimmy breslin, a writer. but beer is a subject that's not exactly unknown to me. so i tried one. i liked it. it's good beer. i tried another. it's better than good. it's a good drinkin' beer. >> now, 83, jimmy breslin still lives in new york city with his wife, ronnie eldridge. recently published a book and still writes occasional column for "the new york daily news." i had the rare opportunity to sit down with him in his home this week and talk about his life in newspapers. when you look back at your career, as a j

breslin, of course, two door cinema club. tomorrow matthew mcconaughey will be here, but jimmy fallon happening right now. jimmy!plause ] ♪ from studio 6a in rockefeller center, the national broadcasting company presents -- tonight's guests are -- and featuring the legendary roots crew. and here he is -- jimmy fallon! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: oh hey! welcome everybody! all right! thank you for being here! hot crowd! hot crowd tonight. welcome to "late night." [ cheers and applause ] i love you, i love you! welcome, everybody! thank you for being here. thank you for watching. you guys feeling good tonight? you feeling good? [ cheers and applause ] i can see you're in a good mood because it's almost halloween, everybody! you excited? [ cheers and applause ] tomorrow night is halloween and, uh, and this woman was making news today. she's from north dakota. and apparently she says that she's planning on giving overweight trick-or-treaters a letter explaining that sugar is bad for them. [ laughter ] instead of candy. well those kids will hand her a letter saying, "toilet paper or eg