Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crush of shows elbowing for space in the late-night arena is starting to look like the 5 p.m. commuter crowd at Penn Station. A year ago at this time, the field was largely the domain of NBC's Johnny Carson-David Letterman duo and ABC's Nightline. But Joan Rivers, who raucously departed as the Tonight show's permanent guest host last spring, has just launched her own syndicated talk show, telecast live at 11 p.m. EST and currently seen on 99 stations. Brenner's Nightlife, another syndicated entry, is now in its second month on 108 stations...
...none of the newcomers have come close to upending Carson, still the after-hours ratings king. The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, the flagship of Rupert Murdoch's new Fox Broadcasting Co., has done respectably in the ratings, but is well behind Carson, averaging a 4.9 rating in twelve prime urban markets, compared with Carson's 7.5. Brenner's numbers have been more disappointing, hovering around 2.4. Cavett and Breslin (whose shows are designed to air at midnight EST, but have been pushed later by several major , ABC affiliates to make room for Brenner's show) are lagging farther behind...
Screenwriter-Director Leon Marr (adapting a novel by Joan Barfoot) is a neat freak with images. Every shot is composed precisely enough to win Edna's approval. The cool, creepy, witty splendor of this Canadian psychodrama is that it resides simultaneously inside and outside Edna's pristine, pathetic mindscape, from her daft rapture over the perfectly made bed to the moment when she hears of her husband's infidelity and tears and saliva cascade down her face. Dancing in the Dark dares to be misunderstood as a case history; in fact, it is Heartburn with a haunting irregular heartbeat...
...Joan Buckley, a representative of the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers, told a meeting of the AFL/CIO in early October that "public funds should be spent on public schools...
Though the event was part of last weekend's celebration to open the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy, the panel discussion was also an intellectual event. The panelists raised several important questions, most of which Nordhaus ignored. For instance, the article focused on the $10 million fundraising campaign, Dean Graham Allison's pleasure that "Nowhere exists a center dedicated to expolring these powerful interactions [between government and the press]" and the new center's latest recruit. The article ignored most of the sharp and informative dialogue between Martin Linsky (author, journalist and politician) Al Hunt...