http://www.courantalumni.org/2012/08/28/larry-cohen-witty-and-original-dies-in-florida/ Where The Latest On Former Hartford Courant Employees Can Be Found Wed, 15 May 2013 19:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.courantalumni.org/2012/08/28/larry-cohen-witty-and-original-dies-in-florida/comment-page-1/#comment-6207 Larry Cohen, journalist | Colin McEnroe Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:28:45 +0000 http://www.courantalumni.org/?p=7272#comment-6207 [...] Larry Cohen and I did our last gig together last year at the Aqua Turf in Southington.  It was supposed to be some kind of onstage duel between a red meat conservative and creampuff liberal, but we were terrible at it because we enjoyed each other’s company.  It doesn’t work the way you think it works. If you’ve both been covering this stuff for decades, if you have senses of humor, if you have shareable war stories, then what you have in common trumps your differences by an enormous factor. [...] [...] Larry Cohen and I did our last gig together last year at the Aqua Turf in Southington.  It was supposed to be some kind of onstage duel between a red meat conservative and creampuff liberal, but we were terrible at it because we enjoyed each other’s company.  It doesn’t work the way you think it works. If you’ve both been covering this stuff for decades, if you have senses of humor, if you have shareable war stories, then what you have in common trumps your differences by an enormous factor. [...]

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