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...quest for attention, but every time he was asked for specific numbers to back up his grandiose plans, he said he had left them at home. Seems he didn't expect journalists and talk show hosts to actually ask him questions. By the end of the summer, even Jay Leno was challenging Perot's jingoistic race-baiting...
This year Andy McDowell and James Garner made the same error on the Jay Leno Show. Boston Globe editor Marjorie Pritchard and Christian Science Monitor editor Alice Hume both misused the word at an appearance before a writer's group last year...
...cards, Bill Murray spray-painting furniture and Paul Newman looking for singing cats. It was all very gratifying to CBS executives, , especially after they saw the resulting numbers. Letterman's show delivered a huge 32% audience share the first night and 25% the next night. On Tuesday night, Jay Leno's Tonight Show tumbled to an all-time nonrepeat low rating of 3.5 with a 10% share. Advertisers are snapping up Late Show time, and on Wednesday CBS's stock leaped $19, or 8%, to $266, the highest of the year...
...surf from first to economy class during the takeoff of his plane, tossing out a chorus of James Brown's I Feel Good. He deals with the inevitable Wooden Al jokes by repeating them. "At a health- care meeting of 800 doctors," he says, rubbing his hands Jay Leno-like in his wing chair, "600 declared me dead...
...Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed the Sun. In the U.S. the baiting was a bit more genial. "Suddenly," Howard Stern told his nationwide radio audience, "Pee-wee Herman is an upright citizen." And Jay Leno on the Tonight Show noted, "Someone said when you hear the name Michael Jackson it epitomizes all that's kind and good. So did the name Heidi until a month...