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Meanwhile, in a prescient stroke of network scheduling, Grant and Wednesday's other celebrity arrest -- former White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers -- were both slated to appear on the July 10 edition of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." No one knows whether Grant will show, but Myers -- as her publicist put it -- is "still booked...
...offered to put some of the Marines who rescued O'Grady on the David Letterman show along with him. "But we learned that the invitation to us for Letterman was only to sweeten the pot," a senior Marine officer said. "Because O'Grady already was slated to go on Leno, Letterman wouldn't take him unless the Pentagon could offer something extra, so the Air Force invited us to tag along to use as leverage to get Letterman to take him." The Marines refused to entertain the offer. It's gone that way all along between the two services...
...once known as Lambeth Marsh Lizzie, who escaped poverty by way of the London music halls, giving innocent performances of suggestive songs: I Don't Suppose He'll Do It Again for Months and Months and Months; Don't Stick It Out So Much. Under the tutelage of Dan Leno, London's most beloved comedian and a precursor of Charlie Chaplin, Lizzie became a star and eventually married the newly rich John Cree. In Ackroyd's opening chapter, she is shown being hanged for murdering her husband...
...political wisecracks are mostly on the level of bad Jay Leno. Suzanne appears on TV in a revealing dress, and someone comments, "I haven't seen a pair of boobs like that since Haldeman and Ehrlichman." All too often the producers -- who were openly angry about the way they were treated in Washington -- seem to be settling a personal score. When Suzanne, for example, wants to invite some of her show-business friends to a dinner party for the President, her stuffy aide objects: "We should be inviting people of quality and distinction -- not tan, happy people from Hollyood...
...Letterman's Late Show, an appearance that proved you can turn your head away from a train wreck. By the end of her bleepathon, even the studio audience was hooting her off the stage. She tried to salvage the p.r. disaster by acting like Little Bo Peep on Jay Leno's show and cooing with Dave at the MTV awards. No sale. Terumi Matthews in Madonna: Innocence Lost was more...