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Kilson, who is Black, wrote that Widner met him after a seminar discussion on March 2, 1990, demanding an "impromptu meeting" about a survey format she had prepared for a subcommittee chaired by the professor...
Remember back in junior high when your teacher gave you alternatives to writing academic exercises and instead let you format papers in fictional dialogues between famous people? Imagine what Cicero would have said to Karl Marx if they ever met on the street. Write a conversation between Dante and Magellan about sailing around the wold or under it, and so on. So along comes Steve Martin who went to school before teachers were this nice, and he decides to write a fictional meeting between two of the 20th century's most formative figures, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, not knowing...
...penchant for past-hipster 1950's graphics and classic Hollywood photo stills, and a first-rate jazz ensemble fading to commerical with bop-style selections. The peppering of slightly-off Lampoon humor and cutting-edge musical guests propels the show out of the starchy promotion-circuit interview format. After nearly nine months of gestating under constant media scrutiny of the now-hyper-commercialized late night niche, the energy at the tapings has perceptibly and sharply mounted to a proudly fevered level since times of leaner demand, which were as recent as January. A good portion of the throng mobbing...
When you started, you said that your vision of the show was less of a talk format, rather more in the style of a Steve Allen repertory variety hour. What do you think of the genesis of your show...
Even so, the format takes a little getting used to. Here, compiled with help from nutritionist Bonnie Liebman of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, are some pointers on how to read the labels and some examples of what they show...