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...movie ever. Docudramas that trot out actors to impersonate famous people, from Jackie O. to Roseanne, are pointless enough, but to re-create this TV-industry story for a mass audience seems the height of self-absorption. John Michael Higgins does a good job mimicking Letterman's cigar-chomping crankiness, but he's too energetic. Daniel Roebuck has the chin (with the help of prosthetics), but turns Leno into a simpering moron. Yet these characters, at least, will be recognizable to viewers. The rest of The Late Shift is a parade of TV executives known to few in the audience...
Penn once again came close, but the opposition emerged with the cigar. The Quakers lost to Yale 53-49 and Brown...
...than one might have expected, says TIME's Richard Zoglin. "The backstage network shenanigans have been deftly digested, and the movie gives a good picture, in broad strokes, of how the TV business runs: badly, most of the time. John Michael Higgins does a good job mimicking Letterman's cigar-chomping crankiness, but he's too energetic. Daniel Roebuck has the chin (with the help of prosthetics), but turns Leno into a simpering moron." But the fatal flaw of "The Late Shift" is that its recreation of an television insider story seems the height of self-absorption. "'The Late Shift...
Scalding hot soup, ice cream, a cookie and an El Producto cigar. That's the lunch diet that has kept GEORGE BURNS going for a century. For Burns, turning 100 this Saturday is no big deal. He'll be feted by Ann-Margret and her mother (among 250 others) at a function celebrating the opening of the Burns and Allen Research Center at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, but other than that, it's the quiet life. In his new memoir, 100 Years 100 Stories, the man who used to make jokes about his age, like "I hope...
...much classical music was originally made. Over the past 175 years, a dashing, Byronic image was eagerly sought after by many of the important figures in composition and performance. Franz Liszt, devastatingly handsome, was the most famous lover in Europe as well the greatest pianist; women fought over the cigar butts he left on the piano after a concert. Leopold Stokowski, the great conductor who shook Mickey Mouse's hand in Fantasia, used to ensure that the lighting at his concerts highlighted his aquiline countenance and halo of long hair. In short, sex has always sold. What...