This amusing Los Angeles Times article about how studios use Larry King’s one-line reviews to promote their movies features a hilarious blurb story. King says he doesn’t like to bad-mouth movies. If he doesn’t have anything nice to say, he doesn’t say anything at all. But …

… it turns out that King sometimes will even blurb a movie he didn’t like. At lunch, he told me of the time he and Shawn Southwick, his sixth wife, took their two boys to see “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.”

“I had no idea what was going on,” he says. “I turned to my wife and said, ‘What is this movie about? I don’t get it!'”

But when I dug up King’s old blurbs, guess who was at the top of the ad for the movie, enthusing: “Finally, a Movie Worth Seeing Over and Over Again!”

Larry! I thought you didn’t like the movie! “I didn’t,” he explained. “I told the CNN person to tell the studio, ‘I didn’t understand the damn movie at all. I’d have to see it over and over again to figure out what happened.’ And then they went and used it!”

Heh, heh. Man, would I love to have Larry King’s job. He doesn’t do research for his interviews. He doesn’t even have to write full-length reviews yet gets blurbed (and, presumably, paid) all over the place.