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...hires the staff, okays the guests and even wrote the theme music. (He has a substantial share of the show's profits.) He has recorded a comedy-music album, Large and In Charge, scheduled for release later this month. On it he performs in the persona of an alter ego, a fat rapper named Chunky A, whom Hall played as a "guest" on his show last May. He has made a video as Chunky A, now airing on MTV. A movie career, meanwhile, has sprouted almost effortlessly. Last year Hall co-starred with his best pal Eddie Murphy in Coming...
...criticisms his show has received. "One critic accused me of fawning over second-rate talent. How dare he! In the ghetto the game is respect. If I book you, I'm committed to you. I'm an entertainer, not a tough interviewer. My philosophy is to leave my ego at the door and get the best out of my guests." Yet Hall concedes that his interviewing skills need work. He is currently being coached by New York City-based media consultant Virginia Sherwood. Among her tips: ask more follow-up questions and avoid overusing words like interesting...
Granted, these worrisome conclusions rest on totally unscientific research. A few recent mentions prompted an inspection of my ego folder of clippings going back several years. Some of the contents were unsettling. Having no reason to believe that I was being singled out for special hazing, I decided that purveyors of the I.L. have a larger point than the news business should tolerate...
...sake of balance, I must report that many clips in my ego folder are unexceptionable. National Review, for instance, recently hollered indignantly about the tilt of something I'd written. Fair enough; my prose was quoted accurately. Still other stories are both factually correct and somewhere between benign and laudatory. (These will be suitably framed and hung on my office wall as soon as time permits.) But there are enough unalloyed clinkers in this little collection to raise disturbing questions. If Washingtonian didn't get my pay right, how many other numbers in that story were wrong...
...Prince material is, well, batty. Several of his songs appear in the film, but Prince uses the album to retell the story and recast himself as the Dark Knight's alter ego. If that seems weird, no one seems bothered. The Batman sound track hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, and contains some of Prince's wildest and most soulful work since Purple Rain...