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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This week's guest Annette Albright (just a friend...
...news came as a cultural shock. After nearly 22 years and some 800 programs, during which he had occupied 65 different armchairs in clubby library sets, Alistair Cooke, 84, was retiring as host of Masterpiece Theatre. For millions of PBS viewers, Cooke was like the guest they always hoped to meet at a party -- charming, informed but never overbearing as he steered them urbanely through such series as Upstairs, Downstairs, I, Claudius and The Jewel in the Crown, discoursing on Edwardian manners, the English public school or life in the sunlit empire...
...Like That There and Every Road Leads Back to You. Perhaps she was hurt by that failure; she sings nothing from the film in her current concert. If she had an unequivocal hit in this period, it was on May 21, 1992, as Johnny Carson's final Tonight Show guest, singing special lyrics to You Made Me Love You. This poignant spot made one think of another career for Midler: world's sassiest, most gifted talk-show host. No one could be better than Bette at keeping viewers up all night...
...Relgion with guest Green Day and Seaweed. Oct. 3, 4 p.m. Avalon, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. Call 931-2000 for more information and tickets...
...hype over his arrival with aplomb and good humor. In a taped opening bit, he was seen jauntily walking to work on D- day, as everyone from his apartment doorman to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw warned, "You'd better be good." When John Goodman appeared, the screen flashed FIRST GUEST and he was mobbed by photographers. When Drew Barrymore showed a provocative photo of herself in a Guess? jeans ad, O'Brien yelped with mock lust, then showed a cue card that read, OW! WOW! OWWW! "Everything's written down for me," he said. "The network is so scared...