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...banter among Miller and colleagues Al Michaels and Dan Fouts was congenial, not to mention interactive. With Fouts, Miller was downright deferential, prefacing a query about a thing called a "two-gap" defense with the apology, "You know, Danny, I hate to do the Socratic method with you and ask you all these questions." After Miller deemed Canton the "Tigris and Euphrates of football history," Michaels elaborated, "This could be Three Rivers Stadium--the Tigris, the Euphrates and the Cuyahoga," sailing Miller's Mesopotamia one-liner to the New World. When Miller cooed he was having "so much fun!" Michaels...
...Regis and Kathie Lee's PG-rated cheeky banter also made me feel like I was doing something vaguely untoward; more than any show I've ever watched, "Live!" made me want to dust off an as-yet-unread volume of Proust and heave my television out the window. I never stayed with the program long enough to see the duo sit down with a guest (many of whom were folks I found deeply uninteresting, like Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson). But I wonder if most people didn't tune out the guest segments; after all, the first...
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) DCMT Contains an hour more of banter, such as the band's ruminations at Elvis' grave: "Why don't they make gravestones look cheerier?" "Probably because of that whole death thing involved with...
...told Conan that this was the kind of banter America loved to hear at 1 a.m. as they slept soundly. It seemed the only thing keeping me from the job was my previous experience on TV. When most people are asked to relate their most embarrassing moment, they inevitably tell some suspicious story about "accidentally" getting naked in public. At least they do in the kinds of magazines I read. But all my most embarrassing moments happened on television. There was the segment for Entertainment Tonight, when the interviewer asked me if Bruce and Demi's divorce would affect their...
...French beach. In Ryan, Spielberg's American soldiers are slaughtered as they de-boat on D-day in a rain of enemy fire. In Pauline a la plage, Eric Rohmer's protagonist probably wishes for shrapnel to off her, if only to spare her the pointless banter of her tacky, divorce cousin...