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...Around this time I became aware that the endless line and being grilled by me were not the only endurance tests these brave individuals were facing. Many were also having to survive that ultimate stress - an on-camera interview with Jay Leno. It seems that the prospect of creating one of his trademark "people-in-the-street" segments with this many disturbed people to choose from was irresistible to the "Tonight Show" host, who was wending his way through the crowd...
...Next I encountered Balloon-Man. His real name was Sean, but since he'd fashioned exotic headgear for himself out of a number of colored balloons, I gave him his tag. Do you think the balloons will work for you? I asked. "Well, it got your attention, and Jay Leno's attention." Touché. We media types fall for this every time. Sean is a self-described "street performer and children's entertainer." He thinks he'd be a good show contestant because he'd be the court jester. And because he had a recipe for barbecuing penguins...
BattleBots got a huge boost when Jay Leno--a longtime machine buff and tinkerer with an extensive motorcycle collection--began plugging it on the Tonight Show, and last fall he became the show's first celebrity contestant. Chin-Killa, built and operated for Leno by NBC technicians, was fronted with a metal facsimile of Leno's face and used his legendary protruding chin as a battering ram to defeat Ginsu, a rival BattleBot wielding a nasty set of rotary saw blades. "I like anything that rolls and explodes," Leno says. "And it seems like a good outlet for kids...
...course Washington is talking about Dick Cheney's power. But like Leno and Letterman, the capital is also buzzing about his health. After all, the man has had four heart attacks, and though he's only 5 1/2 years older than Dubya (Cheney turned 60 last week), his physique is decidedly old school--more like former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's than our gym-addicted President's. Does he have the stamina to be the most powerful Veep in history...
...past seven years, Wechsler has appeared on "Nightline," "20/20," "Good Morning America," and the "NBC Morning Show." Garry Trudeau wrote about him in his "Doonesbury" comic strip, and Jay Leno quipped that it "took a Harvard researcher to find that college students drink...