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Alistair Cooke, the urbane former host of "Masterpiece Theatre" who died Tuesday at age 95, liked to joke about how he would be remembered.
His immortality, he chuckled, would come not from his brief, cogent introductions to public television classics such as "Upstairs, Downstairs" but from the "Sesame Street" knockoff character Alistair Cookie, host of "Monsterpiece Theater."See the full content of this document
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Alistair Was 'Cookie' of a Tv Host
He recounted a story of a little girl coming up to him in an airport and asking if he was the real Alistair Cookie.
"Fifty years from now," he said, "when the names of all curre...See the full content of this document
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