Larry King meets Wall Street

Talk about when worlds collide. Away from his Bev Hills haunts, the CNN talk show host presided over Nasdaq's opening bell this morning as part of a push for the Larry King Cardiac Foundation. A CNBC reporter asked him who tops the list of business types who have never done his show. King didn't hesitate - Kirk Kerkorian. "He's one of the most unusual people I've ever met," he said, noting that Kerkorian wants no part of the limelight. (Like Phil Anschutz, he just doesn't do interviews.) In describing how unassuming the Beverly Hills mega-billionaire is, King said "his phone number is something like" and then rattled off a bunch of numbers. The WSJ's Marketbeat figured it might be worth checking out the number in L.A., Vegas and NY. They all turned up dry, but one did connect to a Persian rug store.