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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...
...still do. I didn't think I'd have a problem with interviews because I had hosted the Tonight show, and there, if you just sit and follow the notes that the staff has prepared for you, you can do a pretty good interview. But for some reason, on this show I had a lot of trouble. I think I just was frightened that suddenly I had to perform as the host of my own show. I was intimidated by guests. So it took a while to overcome that. I remember at one point having a major shift of attitude...
Finally, on more traditional ground, the council this semester will follow up on last fall's popular appearance by reggae star Jimmy Cliff with another campus concert. Last year, the council failed in repeated efforts to host concerts...
...group of 25 Soviet medical students arrived yesterday for a 10-day student-run exchange program. The students, from the Second Moscow Pirogov College of Medicine, will host Harvard Med students over spring break in Moscow...
...coming months, the University will announce plans for a new wing to the Fogg Art Museum, host a reunion of Radcliffe almunae filmmakers and celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Harvard Film Archive...