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...Liver," "The Hunt" and "Tweeter." Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen's old E-Street Band, is expected to lead the show's resident combo. O'Brien's wish list of guests includes Larry Bird, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Get Smart's Don Adams and biographer Robert Caro. But the star will be Conan, and the sizable shadow will be Dave's. "He did ; something innovative in the 12:30 time slot," O'Brien says. "And I'm inheriting this legacy. So I feel a responsibility both to do a good show and to try some different things...
...plots revolution. And a nice guy in clown shoes hopes the butcher's myopic daughter will see the goodness in his heart. Part circus, part zoo, the film's milieu is a nice metaphor for the rudderless morals of post-Everything Europe. Writer-directors Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro go in your face with baroque camera angles a la Citizen Kane and zillions ) of rude sight gags; the movie could be called Welles-apoppin. When style runs riot, it can be lots of fun. But Delicatessen's style finally exhausts itself, and the viewer...
Means of Ascent by Robert A. Caro. The second installment of what promises to be the longest and liveliest American political biography of modern times finds Lyndon Johnson transforming what were certainly not his finest hours into tarnished triumphs. To wit: avoiding World War II combat for as long as possible and then parlaying a few minutes under fire into a Silver Star; and stealing the 1948 Texas senatorial election with 87 questionable votes -- enough to earn him the nickname Landslide Lyndon...
MEANS OF ASCENT by Robert A. Caro (Knopf; $24.95). This second volume of an extended biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson offers a hair-raising, white- knuckle ride through the 1940s, when its hero-villain clawed, scrambled and cheated his way toward the political mountaintop...
...born the nickname -- Landslide Lyndon -- that even Johnson relished when he returned to Washington as a Senator. Surely such a tarnished human -- this Shakespearean assemblage of grand ideals, ambitions and flaws -- could not continue to thrive in the open air of democracy? That question must wait until Robert Caro tells what happened next...