was sinatra a good businessman? >> i don't know if he was a good businessman. he was -- he was smart. he didn't care about the concert business, you know. he and i had a big concert business, but i -- i took care of the business, and he did the singing, but i couldn't sing "my way." but i know i could go in the box office and count the money. >> he's relying on you for the success part of it. >> that concert called sinatra, the main event, was a very important milestone in my life, one of the milestones. >> why? >> well, first of all, frank was like a mentor to me and a great guy and very, very close. he was my idol. i loved the guy. i said we're going to do a live concert from madison square garden around the world and we're going to televise it around the whole word, but he said madison square garden, we've done madison square garden 20 times already. what's different about this, and i said this is the main event. he said what do you mean the main -- what's the main event? i said you are the main event because you're the champ and that's where a heavyweight c

>> i like listening to frank sinatra, sam cook, marvin gaye.e down >> larry: ♪ spinning them wheels ♪ oh, i love that. you know earth, wind & fire were pretty good. >> they were. >> larry: i went to the concert one night but wind was sick. anyway -- i thought that's funny. you're involved with your fans through twitter, tv, live chats. how often do you twitter? we twitter. >> i got a thing called ustream tv and my own show called "the wake and bake show" where they could look, see me personally and then i hit them on twitter through my conversation because it's kind of hard for me to be typing all of my fans at one time so what i do i take their messages along the side and i talk with them and they have a chance to ride with me and roll with me while i'm playing great music and letting them being part of the snoop dogg thing. >> larry: you're very close with your fans. easy access. >> up close and personal. >> larry: what's hard to read about you is where does most of your income come from, records? because that's the business that's hurt. >> i

we'll do sinatra together. >> okay. that would be good.ost to fill in for -- who just left the show? >> larry: paula abdul. >> i think i'd be perfect. >> larry: you'd be a good critic. you'd be great. >> yeah. because i understand the dynamics of music and i see stars before they're made. sometimes i feel like they be passing up on some good people because they don't really have it together on that first try. >> larry: what is the secret of the success of that show other than my man ryan seacrest? >> i think the secret of the success of that show is it's interactive with the people. anybody can become a star. and when you start selling people the real dream that can become reality it's an everyday life. so you've got people watching the show who feel like they could become that next american idol as well. >> larry: do you watch it? >> i watch it occasionally. i like to see what it do because it's always some new talent that's hot. the four or five people that i've seen that won on the show are still doing well. the ruben studdard, fantasia

. >> larry: so it's -- sinatra told me once it's still a kick. >> yes. >> larry: to go on that stage? >> yes. yeah, i knew him. he was a good buddy. >> larry: a good guy. >> yeah. >> larry: if he liked you. >> yeah, yeah. >> larry: your new cd is called "country music," which seems funny to me because who is more associated with country music than you that we have to put that title on. so give me your definition of country music. >> well, this album made up of fiddles, steels, guitars and songs like "house of gold" and "satisfied mind," which to me are really country music standards. this is the stardust of country music. and these songs in their time were just as famous and just as good and soul like stardust and moonlight. >> larry: so they're all famous. to country fans, they would all know "man with blues," seaman's blues," "gotta walk alone," "my baby's gone," "pistol packin' mama," we all know that. "lay your pistol down," "drinking champagne," and "house of gold," all favorite songs. "i am a pilgrim." >> "i am a pilgrim" is a merle travis song, an

he has seen it all in his career, touring and managing so many from elvis presley to frank sinatra to george clooney. i asked him how the business has changed and how to stay successful today. >> i was told when i was a very young kid in the business by two men, lew wasserman was one of them, who ran mca, and another was a guy named steve ross, who ran time warner, and these two guys said to me, stay in the content business, don't go in the hardware business, don't try to build hardware. you're a creative guy, you communicate well with writers and directors and artists. do that. because no matter what the delivery system becomes, there has to be content. and as you know, being in this business and as successful as you are, it's very, very difficult to fill all the time on all these channels and all these cable channels and everything that's going on in the industry. >> so you need content. >> you need content. you always need content. no matter what the -- they can build ipads, ipods, gpods, qpods, whatever steve jobs comes up with next. >> they need something to put on it. >> need so

if you scroll up, you will see, sinatra, two.do is log on to cnn.com/larryking, pick your moments and see who comes up with their best and their favorites, then you'll broadcast them, the top five on your show. back to you in the studio. >> larry: thank you, ryan! also when you go to cnn.com/larryking, you can sign up for our larry king live 25 sweepstakes, a chance to win a trip to los angeles, meet me, and see the show in person. we'll have dinner too. in the coming weeks, we'll be showing you all the top 25 moments you can vote on, but to kick it off tonight, we thought it would be fun to go back to how it all began. ♪ >> larry: my name is larry king and this is the premiere edition of "larry king live." every night at this time, we'll be here for one hour. we'll meet fascinating people from all walks of life. we hope that you enjoy this kind of alternative to prime-time programming rather than murder, mayhem, sex, violence. we'll bring you all of those, but disguised as talk with questions. boy, did that turn out to be true.

kitty kelley who has done books on jackie o., elizabeth taylor, frank sinatra, nancy reagan, the bushamily, and the british royals is out this week with her 500-page take on the talk show queen. and kitty kelley joins me now in the studio to talk about the book called "oprah: a biography" and it's already stirring controversy. welcome. >> hi, howie. >> you say that lots of major tv programs have refused to have you on to talk about this book because oprah is such a powerful figure, but you were on the "today" show this week. >> exactly. the broadcasting boycott has really been overplayed, i think, by the media. >> you've talked about it. you said barbara walters, larry king won't have me on. >> several. >> how do you know that they're intimidated by oprah winfrey? >> well, because their producers said to the publisher that they just couldn't afford to rupture their relations with oprah. but you're right, certainly not the "today" show, certainly not fox news, and certainly not cnn. i've had a lot -- >> larry king says he hasn't talked to you in five years, so he wouldn't have been inv

she has written an unauthorized biographies for jacqueline kennedy, frank sinatra, and nancy reagan. she has had some trouble booking other interviews to try to omote the book. some say they don't want to ruffle any feathers with anyone who might be from the oprah winfrey camp. she has not gotten any word from oprah winfrey or any of her frends. >> thank you very much. it's 5:17. >> anything going on out there? >> this light traffic and getting in and of the city. there were two wrecks on the beltway, but everything is moving smoothly. now to the weather center. >> good morning. we have a few clouds streaming in today. temperatures dropped. yesterday we were in the upper 50's. this morning its 45 in fredericksburg, 45 in maryland, 48 in herndon. let's look at the maps. clouds will be sinking in. there will be a little early morning sunshine. if we will go to mostly cloudy skies through the midmorning. around lunchtime if we will have light rain. showers through southwestern pennsylvania and there are showers in cleveland this morning. they will be light in nature. the front that work

going to save you wracking your brain over which of my leading men i spent time, dean martin, frank sinatran mcshane, richard burton and i'm thinking -- >> anybody there? well that's why i left it open. >> neil: so -- i kept reading on, okay, ... you just threw it out there like a fox teas. >> yes, it is and i've been called a tease before, you know the expression, we're not going to say it here. >> neil: no, no, no, you do look great. it's amazing how good you look and i'm trying to be calm because my wife's watching. you have -- no salt, no sugar, no caffeine. i'm thinking this administration would love you because they're trying to get this preventative type behavior, eat right, publish your men use. >> you know, this is my job, to look like raquel with welch fors long as i can. other people don't have to go to a yoga class at 5:30. >> ooh relentless. >> i am because it's kind of built into my chromosomes. when i was 7-year-old i started classical ballet. it was like a calling for me because i thought i was going to be a dancer and express myself through movement and my body but it doesn

going to start making records, he said willow, this is the man who helped and produced frank i is sinatrahis little nine-year-old looked up at me and said you knew elvis presley, you worked with elvis presley? i said, yes. she said you must be 150 years old! i loved it. >> very nice. and coming up, geraldo is back live in afghanistan with the the 2-in-1 swiffer sweeper does two jobs. the dry cloths clean better than a broom, and the wet cloths clean better than a mop. so you'll dump your old broom and your old mop. but don't worry -- they'll always have each other. ♪ who's that lady? ♪ who's that lady? ♪ sexy lady ♪ who's that lady? [ female announcer ] the 2-in-1 swiffer sweeper does it all. the electrostatic dry cloths trap and lock dirt, dust, and hair and clean 50% more than a broom. ♪ ♪ real fine lady [ female announcer ] and swiffer wet mopping cloths are premoistened with built-in cleansers that trap and lock dirt deep into the cloth to clean better than a mop. the better sweeping, better mopping swiffer sweeper. gives cleaning a 2-in-1 meaning. winner of the good housekeeping very

biographies about some of america's most celebrated icons from elizabeth taylor, nancy reagan, frank sinatra among them. her latest is about the queen of talk, called "oprah the biography." it is an unauthorized detail of oprah winfrey's story. kitty kelly, thanks for coming back. you spent four years researching this book. you say you interviewed more than 800 people. what do you see really as the headline then that comes out to some of oprah's biography? >> we think we know everything about oprah winfrey because she appears to be so open and spontaneous, even uninhibited about her life. but i found with these four years, we don't at all. this is a woman who's got real secrets in her life. now some of her secrets real ly one has helped millions of women, and that was the taboo secret of her sexual molestation. i think that is the signature issue of oprah winfrey's show. and what she really -- a legacy she's going to leave. >> are you saying in this day and age of all the tmzs and vast media outlets in this world and where everything goes public almost instantaneously on twitter, that oprah

so do you -- larry, sing some sinatra for us. >> larry: he is building up the tension. >> 35.e go. >> larry: and where does he live? >> portland, oregon. what time is it there? >> larry: our time here. >> hello, this is paul. >> paul, this is michael moore. you're live on the "larry king". >> larry: why you laughing? that's not funny. it's a serious show. >> that was a laugh of joy. >> it was. >> you are the winner. you found the $100 penalty. >> well, thank you. >> and i just explained the first part of it. so tell them exactly after you. >> larry: did you did you find it. >> where did you finally find it? >> well, i am segregated from the television. so i didn't see your explanation. but what i found was that the $100 fine is not actually in the health care reform bill. in fact, what the health care reform bill does is to modify some existing code, u.s. code 42. and there is a very obscure amendment in the hcr bill. >> i read all those subparts. >> okay. so it just -- i had to go look -- first, i had to find code 42. and then i had to look in there to find where there were p

she's well known, she did liz taylor's autobiography, she did sinatra's biography.y as well. so right now, it's number three on amazon's best-seller list. oprah is saying -- >> take it with a grain of salt. >> right. >> yeah. a lot of people want to know about oprah's life, that's for sure. seems producers of the new bond movie are shaken and stirred and they don't know what to do and they're not going to put the movie out just yet. they were in production but it's been put on hold over uncertainty over the future of mgm studios. this is what, like the 23rd installment of the bond series. but mgm is $3.7 billion in debt. they're trying to sell or restructure the debt. the movie's supposed to be released in 2011 or '12. right now it's on hold. daniel craig says he has full faith this thing will resume. right now money troubles are putting it on the back shelf. >> i hope so. he's my favorite bond by far. >> he rocks, he's good. >> really good. add this story to the gag pile. sharon osbourne has 34dd implants. monday she was on the "today" show, talking about the impla