Word: letterman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list could go on. But I tire of creation. Just remember, David Letterman has legitimized playful destruction on national television--playing with his hydraulic steam compactor, dropping things off five story buildings. So don't feel timid: take heart, go forth and destroy...
Criticizing The Morning Program as fluff is unfair, almost like blaming Late Night with David Letterman for not running news inserts. The show's main problem seems to be a failure of nerve. It tries to break from the morning mold but retains enough Today-like elements to make the entertainment features jarring. Another sort of host -- a folksy Arthur Godfrey type, perhaps -- might have made the format more palatable. Even Smith and Hartley could eventually relax and turn into pleasant morning companions. Right now they are working too hard at chemistry to notice that the ingredients are not jelling...
Remember Jesse James? He was the outlaw who knocked off trains, shot innumerable law men and stars in movies that air after Letterman...
...MOST VISIBLE FREE-FOR-ALL The battle that followed the late news, as Joan Rivers, David Brenner, Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin fought for the insomniac talk-show audience claimed by Johnny Carson and David Letterman...
...David Letterman, the Late Night King...