• Newsday, Tuesday, November 15, 2011 3:54 PM

It won’t have the impact of Oprah’s farewell, of course, but this Friday will mark Regis Philbin’s last syndicated outing on “Live with Regis and Kelly.” 

By last night, Google had already found some 125 recent news articles about Regis’s retirement, and we couldn’t look at them all.  So we’ll be spending this week reading (but alas, not sharing) Verne Gay’s series saluting “The King.”  In Part 1, he travels way back over 40 years to Reege’s days as a sidekick to late-night host Joey Bishop, including a rare video clip.

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