(Reuters) - Veteran tv set commentator Andy Rooney , who previous this month at age 92 took his / her finalized ribbon and bow on the CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes," has become hospitalized thanks to difficulties from surgery, the network said about Tuesday.
" Andy Rooney have minor surgical procedures the other day and also sustained serious complications," CBS claimed inside a statement. "For this reason, he / she remains in the hospital, although his / her condition can be stable. The Rooney spouse and children requests that their particular solitude be reputed at that difficult time."
No further particulars were being available.
Rooney, a curmudgeonly commentator in whose TV essays remarked on features regarding each day life, claimed numerous awards in the course of his prolonged career with journalism.
On October 2, his final "60 Minutes" segment titled, "A Few Minutes by using Andy Rooney ," capped some sort of 33-year run in which Rooney famously left a comment on from trivial things often showing collection agencies of family members possessions, needed along with dangerous to societal issues.
Rooney began their 70-year journalism career on the U.S. Army's "Stars as well as Stripes" newspaper, plus became a member of CBS in 1949 being a copy writer with regard to "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.
In his finalized "60 Minutes" segment, Rooney observed he / she under no circumstances regarded as himself a TV style but usually ended up being some sort of writer.
"I'm not retiring," he said. "Writers will not retire, and also I'll continually be a writer."
(Reporting by Bob Tourtellotte; Editing by simply Cynthia Johnston)
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