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Time: 11-15-2007 13:51 User: Ibarker PubDate: 11-16-2007 Zone: KY Page Name: 6 Color: Htapbnta Custom TV Schedule Create your own customized TV schedule online at www.courier-journal.comtvlistings 1 lOIllgQl FRIDAY TV RADIO PICKS www.courier-iournal.com NOVEMBER 16, 2007 SMITH Era ends as host leaves political-discussion forum 'Comment on Kentucky' memoir about life and politics in Kentucky. He also wants to help Cross, who is director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, maintain and strengthen smalltown newspapers, which hold a big place in Smith's heart. "The job is to be honest and informative," he said, "to keep the doors open for different opinions and ideas to be expressed and to face the person whose ideas you are debating to live next door to them and to have your child marry their child. That's the interesting part of small-town life, and I loved it. It's been a great ride." Continued from El an often divided state they had a lot in common Beyond all the professional compliments, Hebert said Smith is "the nicest guy on the planet very generous with his time and his money.

If you're a friend of Al Smith's, you're a friend for life. If you get mad at him, he'll still stay your friend," Hebert said. Smith has acquired a wealth of friends across the state since he first arrived in Kentucky in 1958. It had been a bumpy ride to the Bluegrass State for Smith, and he had his hat in hand back then. He was born in Florida but moved to Tennessee with his family as a child.

He joined the Army at 17 and served at Fort Knox. His dad had a drinking problem. The son picked up the bad habit. Drinking and not showing up for classes caused him to leave Vanderbilt University, according to a profile in Kentucky Monthly magazine. He drifted to New Orleans, where he worked on two major daily newspapers and tossed away that future too.

"I had a good career in New Orleans until I blew it away with a bottle," he said in a recent phone interview. The city was a wide-open town where you tined for the big time, but he began to see the world differently in Russellville. "When I figured out that Russellville was a miniature of the world, I got my head on straight," he said. "Everything that went on in the bigger world was there in the little world. The police, the schools, the fire department, the need for jobs, for health every issue was right on my desk every day for a country editor to think and write about." But it was interacting one on one with his readers that he loved.

"The people involved were right there at the Rotary Club and the church with you, playing ball with your kids," he said. "There was no barrier between you and the people you were writing about. They would come right in off the street and tell you what they thought. If you wrote about a school principal, you were sitting with him the next day at the Lions Club breakfast eating pancakes." Then in 1974 the phone rang. O.

Leonard Press, the founder of KET, was on the line looking for a journalist to start a new program on the state network. "He turned the lights on for me," said Smith. Suddenly Smith had a megaphone that could be heard across the whole state. "This state has enormous the mountains to small towns and cities, sold his papers and moved to Lexington in 1985 with wife Martha Helen. He went on to become the senior statesman of Kentucky broadcast journalists.

He's seen lots of changes in more than half a century of re-porting. Smith has watched people go from sole reliance on newspapers for all their information, to radio, to television and now to the Internet. "Journalism has become more Wal-Marted by conglomerate ownership," he said. "Everything is part of a chain now." Smith doesn't think that's all bad and believes many newspapers are better now than before. But there are also some downsides.

"Stock-market ownership means when the market goes down, they start cutting newsroom staff," he said. Even with all the information we have, there's still not enough getting down to the grass roots." Smith is leaving the program because he thinks at 80 it's time to relinquish the chair. KET will use guest hosts until a successor is named. "Those who follow simply stand on his shoulders," said KET executive director Malcolm Wall in a press statement. Smith won't retire to a rocking chair.

He wants to finish his could drink around the clock, which is what Smith did for a decade until he got fired. Drinking may have also cost him to miss out on following in the footsteps of a famous broadcaster. It happened when NBC in Chicago called Smith in 1957. "They said, 'We got this kid named John Chancellor who is going to New York and will give you a chance (at his job), but you'll have to do a screen Smith recalled. He couldn't make it.

"I had the shakes so bad I couldn't have gotten on the bus to go to Chicago without a pint of whiskey in my pocket, but I don't regret it because that's what brought me to Kentucky." A friend had told him of a job on the then-News Democrat in Russellville, but the bottle soon followed. That's when a friend invited him to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. "I stopped drinking," Smith said. "It saved my life, but I don't get up on a soapbox about it." "The people who knew me when I was at my worst stuck with me when I changed," he said. He wound up owning the paper and several others.

The outspoken editor also made a name for himself. The Courier-Journal once dubbed him the "devil and the darling of Russellville." Smith always felt he was des In the news Insight cable will add its National Football League channel to the HD lineup Thursday. The company has also indicated that TBS and others will follow. Also tonight There's a wedding on "Men in Trees" at 8 on ABC. One of the members of the "Women's Murder Club" is abducted at 9 on ABC.

Tom Dorsey's column runs Monday through Saturday. Call him at (502) 582-4474 or e-mail him at Online: Ask Tom a question at For three decades, "Comment on Kentucky" gave Al Smith a megaphone that could be heard across the state every week. barriers between the different regions," said Wellman, but he believes Smith's program managed to break through them. Wherever Wellman went reporting, from small towns to county courthouses, people would mention Smith's show. "It was the one source of information people could rely on across the entire length of the state every week.

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They become friendly with their captor, he feeds them well, and they play checkers and talk. Their captor enjoys their company so much he "forgets" to tell them the war is over. Any ideas? Is it on video or DVD? C.Y., Louisville Dear C.Y.: That's the 1965 film "Situation Hopeless But Not Serious," with Alec Guinness as the captor and two youngsters, Robert Redford and Mike Connors, as the paratroopers. It's not on video or DVD. Freelance writer David Inman's column appears daily.

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