I love these quotes from that article:
“I've had direct contact with the old bastard (Art Linkletter) on three separate, one-on-one occasions, and he is -- without a single doubt -- the most obnoxious, disgusting, miserable and hateful SOB I have ever encountered in my 52 years on this Earth. As the flight attendant in tears told me as I opened the door of the aircraft on which he arrived during my O'Hare days: ‘No wonder his daughter jumped out of the window.’ And, he was every bit as miserable when I paged a curtain for him backstage in 1992. "
AND
"“It was 1968, a year before his daughter's suicide, I was 13 years old and discovered Art Linkletter sunning himself in front of the famous Royal Hawaiian Hotel. He was reading Variety. I was nervous, shy and had only the best of intentions. I got a pen and paper and said: "Excuse me, Mr. Linkletter, would you PLEASE sign my autograph?"
“‘FUCK OFF!’ was his reply.”