Word: davids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When his late-night show debuted on NBC in 1982, David Letterman was a young stand-up comic known mainly for occasional stints as a Tonight show guest host. Now, as his own show prepares to celebrate its seventh anniversary, Letterman has established himself as the medium's most inventive * and influential comic. Like Saturday Night Live in the '70s, Late Night with David Letterman has defined the cutting edge of TV comedy in the '80s: hip, irreverent, self-parodying, both scornful of and fascinated by the cliches of show business. Sitting in his Rockefeller Center office recently after...
...Toole, director Lean was an inspiring teacher. "David doesn't play God," he says, "or if he does, he shares his godship. There wasn't a setup that he didn't invite me to look at through the camera. When he was editing, I'd sit on the cutting-room floor, watching." And at the end of the adventure, "we were shooting the last scene, and I was sitting in the jeep with my feet in a bucket of ice because it was so hot. David just shot it and shot it and shot it. He was amazingly reluctant...
...reunited last April when O'Toole joined Alec Guinness to dub parts of the restored film under Lean's direction. "It could have been macabre," he acknowledges, "but it wasn't. It was fun. For one thing, David and I could see Lawrence in a different light. We were more detached, and the way to capture those moments seemed clearer. It's the old story: actors play Hamlet in their late 20s and then realize in their mid-50s that they now know...
...David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia won seven Oscars and the hearts of a movie generation. Now the film that made Peter O'Toole a star is back, stronger and handsomer than ever...
INTERVIEW: David Letterman, host of TV's funniest talk show, gets serious -- sort of -- about his career and his comedy...