“Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie,” which airs 8 p.m. Thursday ... He tried early on a singing career but drifted instead into radio, honing his increasingly nasty style at various ...

who is Morton Downey Jr.'s father singing "Thanks a Million." And a reminder, you can follow WEEKEND EDITION on Facebook and on Twitter: NPRWeekend and I'm @NPRScottSimon - all one word.

But as “Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie” makes clear ... is the melancholy image of a onetime poet and liberal who longed to sing but in the end could only talk.

“Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie” tells the story of the son of an Irish crooner who turned to talk radio and television when his own dreams as a singer didn’t pan out. Downey’s ...

This article was corrected on March 19, 2001. Morton Downey Jr., songwriter and actor-turned-growling and opinionated TV talkshow host who shocked viewers from behind a haze of cigarette smoke ...

March 13 -- Once the biggest mouth on television, Morton Downey Jr. has been forever silenced. The lung cancer the former talk-show host has been suffering from for years, said daughter Tracey ...

Morton Downey Jr., the chain-smoking, combative talk-show host who reined over so-called "Trash TV" in the 1980s, has died, his daughter Tracey said Monday night. He was 67. The cause of death was ...