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Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter, and longtime syndicated columnist for the ''New York Daily News''. He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program ''The Toast of the Town'', later popularly—and, eventually, officially—renamed ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history. "It was, by almost any measure, the last great TV show," proclaimed television critic David Hinckley. "It's one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories."〔Nachman (2009), Kindle location 7662-7670.〕
Sullivan was a broadcasting pioneer at many levels during television's infancy. As TV critic David Bianculli wrote, "Before MTV, Sullivan presented rock acts. Before Bravo, he presented jazz and classical music and theater. Before the Comedy Channel, even before there was ''the Tonight Show'', Sullivan discovered, anointed and popularized young comedians. Before there were 500 channels, before there was cable, Ed Sullivan was where the choice was. From the start, he was indeed 'the Toast of the Town'."〔Nachman (2009), Kindle location 7670.〕 In 1996 Sullivan was ranked No. 50 on ''TV Guides "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time".
==Early life and career==
Sullivan was born in Harlem, New York City, the son of Elizabeth F. (née Smith) and Peter Arthur Sullivan, a customs house employee, and grew up in Port Chester, New York. He was of Irish descent. A former boxer, Sullivan began his media work as a newspaper sportswriter for the ''New York Evening Graphic''.〔Yagoda, Ben (1981), "The True Story of Bernarr Macfadden," ''American Heritage'' 33(1), December 1981; reference used for this article was the online version,
〕 When Walter Winchell, one of the original gossip columnists and the most powerful entertainment reporter of his day, left the newspaper for the Hearst syndicate, Sullivan took over as theatre columnist. His theatre column was later carried in the ''New York Daily News''. His column, ''Little Old New York'', concentrated on Broadway shows and gossip, as Winchell's had and, like Winchell, he also did show business news broadcasts on radio. Again echoing Winchell, Sullivan took on yet another medium in 1933 by writing and starring in the film ''Mr. Broadway'', which has him guiding the audience around New York nightspots to meet entertainers and celebrities. Sullivan soon became a powerful starmaker in the entertainment world himself, becoming one of Winchell's main rivals, setting the El Morocco nightclub in New York as his unofficial headquarters against Winchell's seat of power at the nearby Stork Club. Sullivan continued writing for ''The News'' throughout his broadcasting career and his popularity long outlived that of Winchell.
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