I see where CNN is reprising this year with the team of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin at midnight. I always thought this was a strange match up and was disappointed that the potty-mouthed Griffin was back. Before there was Cooper/Griffin there was the ageless Dick Clark handling the countdown as the ball descended on Times Square. But I must be an old fogey as I recall an erudite gentleman named Ben Grauer, a seasoned broadcaster, wearing a black overcoat and homburg hat, who handled the mike solo and was never lost for words - in all kinds of weather. To paraphrase Adlai Stevenson, I found Grauer appealing and Griffin appalling - but each to his/her own taste. And at midnight the scene would shift to the Roosevelt Grill in Manhattan where Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians would be playing the sweetest music this side of heaven and the dancers actually touched each other. Happy New Year.
tjs
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