The Ramones On “The Joe Franklin Show”
Joe Franklin, one of the great New York personalities and an indefatigable interviewer, has died at age 88. According to a hilarious N.Y. times obit, Franklin “presided over one of the most compellingly low-rent television programs in history, one that even [Franklin] acknowledged was an oddly long-running parade of has-beens and yet-to-bes interrupted from time to time by surprisingly famous guests.â€