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Jewish home to ask questions and express himself. "The Jewish heritage teaches you to question," he explained. "It didn't ask us as children to accept what the rabbi said as gospel or even what the Old Testament said as gospel. It taught us to ask. We were urged to ask." But King, who changed his name from Larry Zeiger when he became an on-air personality, said his ability to interview isn't only cultural. "I think I was just born with curiosity. I'm always asking questions, always wondering about things," he explained. "I don't know how much of that is from being Jewish. It's part of my culture, part of my makeup, but not every Jew is a good question-asker. It certainly gave me an ingredient to be open to ask." On his late-night radio talk show, King interviews guests from all walks of life. Some subjects lend themselves to frivolity, others to highly serious matters. The first two hours are for the guest inter- view and listener questions. During the second two hours King expresses his opinions and fields questions and com- ments from listeners who call him. Often callers will suggest that his opinions are "a Jewish kind of thing (to say.)" "When someone says that, I don't know what that means, because I'm my own thinker, everybody is. I'm not guided by ' anything. I disagree with Israel a lot. In fact, a lot of Jewish people get mad at me?' "There's a part of me that thinks Zionism, sometimes, is a political movement that borders on the racist. And if I feel that way, I say it," King said. And although he under- stands the viewpoint that some Jews believe they must defend Israel because of the struggle that went into creating its statehood, King Audree P. Koenigsberg is creative services editor of The Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, from which this piece is reprinted. feels no allegiance to suppor- ting every move Israel makes. "I often disagree with policies and actions that have taken place there, especially in the last five years. But I don't necessarily defend America either. The stupidest statement I've ever heard about this country is 'my country, right or wrong.' That's insane. "If you believe that, then Goebbels had a right to do what Hitler told him to do, and so did Rommel and so did Goering. My country, right or wrong?" he said, questioning the phrase. "No, I don't sup- port Israel' out of hand." He holds other strong beliefs. "I have an extreme distaste for prejudice," said the 53-year-old King. "Judaism gave me that, so when I see a Jew who's pre- judiced, I'm extremely disap- pointed. More disappointed than with others, because I hold a Jew up higher to that?' It was growing up in Brooklyn that shaped his ideals and values. He remembers the borough as a "special place" where there was interdependence and loyalty throughout the ethnic mix of peple who lived there. King was 10 when his father died. His mother, whom he described as religious, raised his brother and himself in a kosher home. "I would say it was Conservative-leaning Or- thodox," he recalled. Today, however, King con- siders himself agnostic. "I don't know if there is a God. I go (to the synagogue) on Yom Kippur as respect to my parents; they're both dead now. I like the Jewish epic and concept, but the God of the Old Testament is incredi- ble to me," he said. Always a kid who voiced his opinion, King now gets the opportunity to share his thoughts through public speaking engagements where he enjoys making people laugh. King also writes a column in USA Today and hosts CNN's Larry King Live. A new book, Tell It to the King, will be out in the spring. In recent years, King's fame has grown tremendously. He said he never expected little Larry Zieger's life to run the course it has. "I knew he had the talent. But I never thought he'd get this far," King said. Copyright 1987, JTA, Inc. Versatile Mel Torme Swings Into Academy MICHAEL ELKIN Special to The Jewish News Others have always been able to make book on Mel Torme, whether asking him to enter- tain as a singer, pen a new song as a composer ("Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. . ."), drum up a storm as a drummer, or act up in film (Higher and Higher) and television (Night Court). Now, appropriately, Ibrme is making book on himself. "I'm just putting the finishing touches on my autobiography," says the - honey-voiced per- former known to his discomfort as the "Velvet Fog!' At 61, Torme, the Jewish music maven, hasn't lost a beat. "I'm in the process of arranging an orchestral tribute to Benny Goodman," says Torme, adding with nary a pause for a breath, "and I've just embarked on the biography of Buddy Rich!" Indeed, says 'Ibrme, "it was one of Buddy's last requests that I write the book about him. And, in between all that, I'll still have some time to Mel Torme devote to my gun collection!' Torme is a noted gun buff. There was a time when Torme was perceived as quick on the trigger, eager to fire back verbally at the slightest provocation. But that was years ago; it is not only the voice that has matured. But then not every youngster was under the gun like little Melvin Howard 'Ibrme, who sang his first song at 10 months