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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year, however, "we return 35 letterman with game experience," Coach Martyn Kingston says, "and that is a great platform to build on for the Championship. I'm confident in the team and they're confident in their play...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: Confidence | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

Talk so often leads to more talk. Perhaps that is why this fall, besides NBC's Johnny Carson and David Letterman, there will be entries from Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin on ABC, Joan Rivers on the new Fox network, David Brenner and Oprah Winfrey in syndication and Robert Klein on cable's USA Network. That spatter of patter may also be why a veteran of TV's talkfests is leaving the lists. This week, after 23 years, Merv Griffin, 61, broadcasts his / 5,520th and final show. "It's tough to say good-bye," said the genial, gee- whiz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 8, 1986 | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...stands 5 ft. tall, on point. His face has the canine cantankerousness of a mutt on David Letterman's Stupid Pet Tricks. He secured TV fame playing a gnomish cab dispatcher with a heart of gunk. Not, you might say, Hollywood's idea of a leading man, unless for a Muppet remake of Rumpelstiltskin. But in today's Hollywood, where the hottest teen idol is a 64-year-old named Rodney Dangerfield, anything is possible. So why not Danny DeVito as the topliner of the highly liked summer hit Ruthless People? Or as the scene stealer in a rock video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tinseltown's Tiny Terror | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

...show pioneer, yet the creator of a classic half an hour that included not a single line of dialogue. A TV "star" who never had a network series that lasted more than two seasons, yet who influenced video comedy for the next two decades, from Laugh-In to David Letterman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Celebrating a Comedy Composer | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

NEXT ARE STUDY breaks. The first one is for David Letterman--a man with just the "Far Side" mentality the Allnightist possesses, or soon will. Later, when slap-happy turns into bitterness at the sleeping, a quick water-gun, water-balloon raid on Store 24 is in order. Nothing lightens the prospect of six more hours without sleep like the sight of a dripping wet roommate stumbling and screaming downstairs to the laundry room, arms full of soggy flannel...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: The Right Stuff | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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