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Dick Clark Flubs New Year's Countdown

It's admirable that Dick Clark, whose New Year's Rockin' Eve is a television institution, has continued to host the show even after a stroke robbed him of some of his speech abilities. So our hearts went out to him when he fumbled counting down from twenty into the start of a new year. But we felt even worse for Ryan Seacrest, who apparently had no one to kiss at midnight.

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It's admirable that Dick Clark, whose New Year's Rockin' Eve is a television institution, has continued to host the show even after a stroke robbed him of some of his speech abilities. So our hearts went out to him when he fumbled counting down from twenty into the start of a new year. But we felt even worse for Ryan Seacrest, who apparently had no one to kiss at midnight.