Word: letterman
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...television celebrities. Substantively, the panelists did have something to offer, or at least Carville did. But that is probably not what prompted the worker to become so interested in these Washington players. More likely it was his having seen their lovely mugs on TV: Carville hawking his book on Letterman, McCurry explaining away the President's foibles on C-Span...
...drag." Where else can you see a chorus line reminiscent of Radio City Music Hall with men who, in high heels and bustiers, can pass for mildly attractive women? Where but the Pudding can you understand the cultural significance of Howard Stern's promoting his new movie on David Letterman wearing a blond wig and nylons? Where else but the Pudding, a Harvard institution by dint of being an institution and the nation's oldest the atrical company? Eat well (for the Hasty Pudding recipe, check out Lydia Maria Child's The Frugal Housewife, 1832), drink liberally and enjoy...
...kept up his earnestly ingratiating style at a pre-Rosie O'Donnell moment in pop-cultural history when sunny-eyed kindness wasn't all the rage. Going against the grain, he used niceness to build a hit show at a time--the late '80s and early '90s--when David Letterman's ironic distance set the standard for talk-show cool and a subversive little sitcom called The Simpsons first made its way onto the must-watch list of hipsters, secretaries and six-year-olds alike...
...power triumvirate (along with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen) at the DreamWorks studio. Katzenberg, who, without a hint of irony in his voice, refers to Hall as a "national treasure," decided to lure the comic back to TV after catching his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman in November 1995. The mogul's first step was to dissuade Hall from doing a film he had conceived in which the comic would have starred as a two-faced rap impresario. "It was like Nino Brown meets Shecky Green," Hall explains. "Jeffrey didn't think it was right...
...catchphrase ever tasted so sweet and soured so quickly? Since Jerry Maguire was released in December, its signature phrase, "Show me the money!," has been used more than 300 times in newspapers and magazines. David Letterman noted it in his Top 10. Senator Frank Lautenberg uttered it in budget discussions. Lance Alstodt shouted it when he kicked the $1 million field goal during the Pro Bowl. And, now, alas, a rash of new incarnations...