Word: letterman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...call our late-night option, 'The Late-Show' and we thought of that name before David Letterman," Orefice says...
...motorcycle accident, are going to undertake 2 a.m. feedings and toilet training in their seventh decade. There aren't going to be many such mothers, but if medicine can help make it so, why not greet them with the same joy accorded Tony Randall, who appeared on David Letterman the same day news about the California mother broke. He had just had his first child at 77, without any fear that a doctor could tell...
...Files is the cultural touchstone of this millennial decade, as David Letterman was of the '80s. Letterman's withering facetiousness said that no institution was to be respected anymore--everything was up for laughs. The X-Files says there are things to believe in: the things the government suppresses and the traditional media don't dare reveal. The show is 60 Minutes for the reality-impaired; Mulder and Scully are the new Mike Wallace and Lesley Stahl...
...Barbra award for good sportsmanship: David Letterman, for making fun of his own panned stint as Oscar host...
...retrenching a bit and trying to reassert its hard-news credentials. Good Morning America, the No. 1-rated morning show for much of the '90s, has slipped into second place, well behind NBC's Today show. Of course the network still has the indispensable Nightline, which frequently beats both Letterman and Leno in the late-night ratings; two successful prime-time magazine shows in 20/20 and PrimeTime Live; and the most impressive array of news stars in television. But one of them, Diane Sawyer, could use a window in her contract to jump to CBS, while several others--Jennings, Barbara...