01/31/00- Updated 03:05 AM ET
Hang on for Meg Ryan; CNN's anniversary
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Larry King's People
I just had an advance screening of the Nora Ephron production Hanging Up, directed by Diane Keaton and featuring her, Lisa Kudrow, Meg Ryan and Walter Matthau.
To say the very least, this is Ryan's finest performance, and she'll have to be considered when awards time rolls around next year. The comedy/drama about three sisters and an aging father is funny, sad, quirky, uneven and brilliant. Matthau turns in a bravura performance and even (for the first time) sings. You will not soon forget Hanging Up, out Feb. 11. And again, Ryan is out of sight.
I'm a very busy boy. Tuesday, I head to New Hampshire, where we will again do two editions of Larry King Live featuring winners and losers, plus our regular panel of Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, Jeff Greenfield of CNN, 1996 vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp and former Texas governor Ann Richards.
Judy Woodruff told me after watching them in Iowa that they were the best political panel she'd seen on television. In South Carolina on Feb. 15, I will moderate a Republican debate, which will be the only get-together leading up to the primary there.
On the 19th, I head for South Africa, where I'm doing a week of visiting and speaking at the Investech International Road Show.
I'll be in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. The trip includes a private lunch with Nelson Mandela.
Having never been to that part of the world, I'm looking forward to it. It's a vacation week, but, knowing me, I'll probably file something to CNN.
My brother, Marty Zeiger, will accompany me. It's too long a hike for my pregnant wife, Shawn.
On June 1, CNN celebrates its 20th birthday. That night, Larry King Live celebrates its 15th birthday. On the evenings of June 1 and 2, I will host two-hour specials starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT, looking back at the history of both the network and our show. Ted Turner will co-host with me June 1. Earlier that evening, they're planning an all-star celebrity show at Philips Arena in Atlanta, and I'm going to emcee that.
Now get this: Canon Edward King is due about June 3. A plane will be standing by, engines revving, because I must be there for this one.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, who bowed out of the Republican primary picture, had a very funny line at one of his speeches. The veteran Utah lawmaker said, "I'm a Mormon. Do you know how hard it is to raise money from people who don't drink?"
Add to life's great annoyances: swallowing a drink the wrong way; button-fly jeans when you have to go to the men's room in a hurry (not fun!); having to sneeze and not being able to; hiccups; talking to machines; cell phones cutting out (I hate them in the first place; we'd have been better off without them).
Negotiation author and lecturer (and my oldest friend) Herb Cohen just inked two dates to appear at Tony Robbins' get-togethers in Detroit and Boston. It's his first time with Robbins, but once they see him work, it won't be the last.
Larry King Live appears nightly on CNN and on the Westwood One radio network.
This column appears every Monday.
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