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...greets him by touching index fingers. (No old-fashioned high-fives on The Arsenio Hall Show.) He bounds in and out of the audience, paying special attention to the folks in the bad seats behind the band. By the end of his opening monologue, the crowd is wired. Johnny Carson signals the start of his show with a decorous golf swing. Hall launches the proceedings with a cry of "Let's . . . get . . . BUSY...
Since its debut last January, The Arsenio Hall Show has passed both Pat Sajak and David Letterman in the ratings, to take the No. 2 slot behind Carson's venerable Tonight show. Hall's show ranks No. 1 among the important under-35 audience. "I take the view that the public has elected me as a new late-night talk-show host," he says enthusiastically. "I've worked all my life preparing for it, putting together a platform -- my kind of guests, my kind of music, what I think is funny. I've been warming...
...viewers. Some urban contemporary radio stations have noticed a drop in their listenership when Hall is on the air. The inevitable TV imitators are starting to appear, notably The Byron Allen Show on CBS, a Saturday-night talk show with another black comic as host. Even fuddy-duddies like Carson and Sajak seem to be feeling the heat. Would rock acts like Simply Red and Stevie B. have been booked in the days before Hall...
This does not add to the story at all; it had already been stated that Wigglesworth Hall is easy to break into All this can possibly do is encourage "copycat crimes," where people see which other entryways and rooms will open with a credit card. Lawrence S. Carson...
...Lesley Carson...