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...with David Letterman made its debut on NBC in 1982, it was the prankish outsider, a subversive send-up of talk shows, television, the entertainment world in general. Letterman refused to fawn over guests; with the help of Vegas-obsessed bandleader Paul Shaffer, he took deadpan aim at show-biz phoniness. He griped about his NBC bosses, turned stagehands into stars, conducted elevator races in the hallway. His medium-twisting inventiveness was influenced by Ernie Kovacs, his man-on-the- street playfulness by Steve Allen. But Letterman seasoned them with his own sardonic, cranky, cooler-than-cool personality...
That was the kind of class that endeared Heidi to her clientele. Now, of course, the customers, said to be mainly show-biz celebrities and executives, are apoplectic with worry. Press agents last week were telling reporters that, oh sure, their clients have "met" Heidi but know nothing else about her. In a statement faxed to the press, Idol proclaimed, "I have never used ((Heidi's)) professional services, and, God knows, I don't need to. Fortunately, I've never had to pay for sex." The Los Angeles Times wrote that Heidi was sometimes paid for her services with corporate...
...Michael J. Fox in Life with Mikey: "I'm a show-biz agent, down on his pluck. I hope to make my fortune, and remake my life, with the help of a brash urchin who could be someone's beautiful daughter...
...treats you like he do when he's such a good man"). So, as she stands mute and trembling on the stage of the Apollo Theatre in 1965, Ike walks up to her and kisses her on the cheek. Softly. It's very sweet and utterly false -- pure show biz. It is also a warning: a kiss that could be a kick. Tears rushing down her face, Tina wails the song's first word. It is "Woe," and it sounds , like a moan from beneath the earth, from any woman who can't understand why her man treats her like...
SPECTATOR: The Clinton-Show-Biz Connection...