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...huge billboard, Jay Leno's battering-ram jaw juts out over Broadway. AMERICA IS STANDING UP FOR JAY, the sign says. Maybe NBC hopes the nation's insomniacs will take a loyalty oath to keep watching the Tonight Show, and repel alien threats from David Letterman on CBS and Chevy Chase on Fox. So who's standing up for these guys? Bosnia...
...lots is at stake around midnight: the usual nine digits of ad-revenue dollars and the hosts' fertile, fretful egos. But, as Leno acknowledges, the free world will survive. "Does anyone really lose?" he asks. "It's not like people go home broke and beaten. Everybody comes out of this a millionaire...
...Leno, he hopes just to keep sailing along. "With the Tonight Show," he says, "you don't make sharp turns. It's like trying to turn the Titanic around." The Titanic, Jay? Are you just a tad apprehensive about an iceberg named Dave? Next week, to counter Letterman, Tonight is running a spiffy lifeboat drill: guests include Bill Cosby, Luke Perry and Garth Brooks. But Leno is in the game for keeps. "With all these shows," Leno says, "it's not how good the show is, it's how long you can continue to make it good, every night...
Among his battles, Scanlon has locked horns with Tonight show host Jay Leno, who considers lawyers prime fodder for his monologues. Scanlon claims Leno has "apologized" after the image consultant called to complain. But Leno won't admit to taking back any flak. When asked about the lawyer-boosting campaign, Leno chortled, "I can't say anything until I speak to my attorney! I mean, come on. We're not advocating violence or the overthrow of the judicial system, we're just telling silly jokes...
...course, hopes he steals Leno's audience, whose numbers are about the same as Johnny Carson's were. And Leno, whatever his anxiety over competing with the talk-show host who made him famous, is happy to milk the story for sharp laughs. Last week he read an "NBC memo" regarding the intellectual properties Dave may not use on CBS: the letters N, B or C ("legally they're ours"); the term Letterman ("because it originated with the singing group who appeared on NBC's Kraft Music Hall with Eddy Arnold in 1970"); and the phrase "pinhead network executives" ("Pinhead...