Word: letterman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed to tell Iranscam Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh about her NSC deeds in return for immunity from prosecution. When the deal became known last week, Hall suddenly found herself thrust into the media glare. Photographers followed her car, a red Fiero with license plates that read FAWN. David Letterman joked about her, the New York Post dubbed her "Iranscam Beauty," and pictures from her modeling days flashed across the network news shows. Said Hall: "One of my friends told me Andy Warhol said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. I kind of feel like that right...
...came next to a letter from some plebeian staff member at Late Night with David Letterman. Most of it was a typewritten form letter, with the usual blank spaces for personalization--like "Dear blank", "thank you for your interest blank", "thanks for your time blank", and "now get lost blank"--except for the handwritten note at the end of the letter, which read "as a result of your application Mr. Blank, we have decided to stop hiring graduates of the Harvard Lampoon until your publication can show that it is capable of producing people who are both funny...
INDIANA PROBABLY has a lot to offer. It brought us David Letterman, for instance. But if the creators of Hoosiers are to be believed, then every community in the state has nothing better to do for five months of the year than to follow its high school basketball team from quaint agrarian town to quaint agrarian town, living and dying by their every dribble...
Maher is this week's headliner. If his name doesn't ring a bell, his face probably will. A veteran of many appearences on the Carson and Letterman shows, Maher simply is a funny guy. A graduate of Cornell, a private college in upstate New York, Maher's slight lisp, devilish chuckle and sly grin are those of the eternal class clown. His 45-minute routine--which nonetheless seemed to end too soon--traversed all of the stock subjects of stand-up. But his observations and insights on life at home, life at college, getting older, drugs, politics...
Take, for instance, the person who had the misfortune to father comedian Jerry Seinfeld, veteran of The David Letterman Show and The Tonight Show and the featured performer last week at the just-opened comedy palace in Cambridge Catch A Rising Star, the Boston area branch of a well-known New York club...