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Best remembered for his 1971 spoken word smash "Desiderata," Les Crane was born Lester Stein in San Francisco in 1935; after first rising to local success as a rock and roll DJ at Bay Area station ~KKYA, he moved to ~KKGO, where station manager Don Curran gave him the new surname Crane and tapped him to host a late-night talk show. Crane's program quickly became a hit, its star's growing notoriety further enhanced by his marriage to actress Tina Louise; in 1964, ~ABC television signed him to host #Nightlife, one of the network's many failed attempts to combat NBC's #The Tonight Show. #The Les Crane Show followed -- the Rolling Stones made their American television debut on the program on June 2, 1964 -- and in 1966 he made his feature film debut in the little-seen #An American Dream.

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