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Larry King Crop Circle
Aired February 13, 2003 - 06:56 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: OK, time for some laughs and giggles and smiles, at least we hope so. It's 5:56 Eastern time. A little treat for you "Larry King Live" fans. When you see what an artist did with Larry, well, it could just grow on you. This is a story that first surfaced last summer, but now it's cropped up again.
CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So to speak.
COSTELLO: Oh, so to speak, right.
Our Jeanne Moos has this update.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's been plastered on billboards, even reproduced in wax. But this past summer, Larry King got even bigger in certain circles -- crop circles. How's it feel to be tops in your field, a farmer's field?
LARRY KING, HOST, "THE LARRY KING SHOW": You know, it's interesting you ask that, because I always wanted to be a crop circle.
MOOS: Larry showed the crop circle on his show this past August while he was interviewing Matthew Perry.
MATTHEW PERRY: Daniel, you might want to do something better with your free time, my friend.
MOOS: Oh, he has now. Bulgarian born artist Daniel Bozhkov has brought the plywood he used to stomp out Larry's face to a New York art gallery, The Andrew Kreps Gallery. Visitors sit on a couch and view videos of the project, called...
DANIEL BOZHKOV: Learn how to fly over a very large lorry.
MOOS: Because that's what Daniel did. Took a few flying lessons to get a bird's eye view of his handiwork near East Madison, Maine. Daniel isn't some obsessed fan. He sees Larry as a global disseminator of American culture.
BOZHKOV: This way he's part of the landscape, which he is anyway.
MOOS: A very large Larry was timed to coincide with the release of the movie "Signs." The scariest thing about this king sized crop sign was the size of Larry's suspenders.
BOZHKOV: This is like 40 feet.
MOOS: Larry ended up giving his suspenders to Matthew Perry and that's the moment Daniel captured in this painting.
(on camera): Larry, Larry, $5,800 someone spent on this painting of you.
KING: Who's the wacko that bought it?
MOOS (voice-over): It was an MTV executive, who prefers to remain anonymous. And speaking of hanging Larry's picture...
KING: The jelly, Jelly Belly jelly bean company made a picture of me made entirely of jelly beans and I have it framed at home. My children look at it and go, "Eat daddy."
MOOS: Jelly bean king. The crop sign exhibit includes examples of plants like milkweed, timothy and bull thistle, that make up very large Larry. It gives a whole new meaning to...
KING: On "Larry King Live"...
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired February 13, 2003 - 06:56 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: OK, time for some laughs and giggles and smiles, at least we hope so. It's 5:56 Eastern time. A little treat for you "Larry King Live" fans. When you see what an artist did with Larry, well, it could just grow on you. This is a story that first surfaced last summer, but now it's cropped up again.
CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So to speak.
COSTELLO: Oh, so to speak, right.
Our Jeanne Moos has this update.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's been plastered on billboards, even reproduced in wax. But this past summer, Larry King got even bigger in certain circles -- crop circles. How's it feel to be tops in your field, a farmer's field?
LARRY KING, HOST, "THE LARRY KING SHOW": You know, it's interesting you ask that, because I always wanted to be a crop circle.
MOOS: Larry showed the crop circle on his show this past August while he was interviewing Matthew Perry.
MATTHEW PERRY: Daniel, you might want to do something better with your free time, my friend.
MOOS: Oh, he has now. Bulgarian born artist Daniel Bozhkov has brought the plywood he used to stomp out Larry's face to a New York art gallery, The Andrew Kreps Gallery. Visitors sit on a couch and view videos of the project, called...
DANIEL BOZHKOV: Learn how to fly over a very large lorry.
MOOS: Because that's what Daniel did. Took a few flying lessons to get a bird's eye view of his handiwork near East Madison, Maine. Daniel isn't some obsessed fan. He sees Larry as a global disseminator of American culture.
BOZHKOV: This way he's part of the landscape, which he is anyway.
MOOS: A very large Larry was timed to coincide with the release of the movie "Signs." The scariest thing about this king sized crop sign was the size of Larry's suspenders.
BOZHKOV: This is like 40 feet.
MOOS: Larry ended up giving his suspenders to Matthew Perry and that's the moment Daniel captured in this painting.
(on camera): Larry, Larry, $5,800 someone spent on this painting of you.
KING: Who's the wacko that bought it?
MOOS (voice-over): It was an MTV executive, who prefers to remain anonymous. And speaking of hanging Larry's picture...
KING: The jelly, Jelly Belly jelly bean company made a picture of me made entirely of jelly beans and I have it framed at home. My children look at it and go, "Eat daddy."
MOOS: Jelly bean king. The crop sign exhibit includes examples of plants like milkweed, timothy and bull thistle, that make up very large Larry. It gives a whole new meaning to...
KING: On "Larry King Live"...
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
