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Article: TV legend Steve Allen dead
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Steve Allen-who left Chicago as a young man and went on to become
the first host of TV's "Tonight Show" as well as something of a 20th
century Renaissance man-has died at age 78.
A comedian, jazz pianist, novelist, poet, essayist, dramatist,
actor, recording artist, political activist and philanthropist, Mr.
Allen suffered an apparent heart attack Monday night at the suburban
Los Angeles home of his youngest son, Bill.
"Sometimes," Steve Allen told the Chicago Daily News in 1967, "I
think I'm a man with no profession and 12 sidelines."
Mr. Allen, who was married to actress Jayne Meadows, had a career
as a star of TV, movies, stage and cabaret. He was credited with
writing 40 books and more ...