Don Imus has died at age 79. Revisit our 2006 profile of the radio host from our VFArchive
"I have this moron from Vanity Fair with me," he says into his cell phone."He fucked me. Ordinarily I wouldn't take him."
What I wanted was access. Here in the limo on this Monday at the end of October, I have access. But he still has me offbalance, and I have to assume he likes that as well. Prick. Perverse. Smart. Savvy. Curious. Child-like. Moody. Mercurial. Out of it. Into it. Appealing. Asshole. During the week I spend with the legendary radio host listened to by millions on his nationally syndicated show, Imus in the Morning, my reactions to him swirl round and round in a game of emotional roulette.
"I don't feel well," he says in the limo. It's something he says a lot during the week, just as he groans a lot and sighs a lot and has coughing fits and screams that his ears hurt and utters"Oh, man" and"Oh, shit.
The 75-year-old Pearson, a specialist in pediatric hematology and oncology, is the former chief of pediatric service at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is also a professor emeritus at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he received the Gillman Award for teaching excellence. At the ranch, he was a paid physician in charge of the children's medical care, and, until that July, enjoyed a solid working relationship with the Imuses.
Imus doesn't seem particularly bothered by defamation suits, since, as he notes, he is indemnified by his employers, Viacom and NBC, for on-the-air comments.
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