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...serves as his Manhattan pied-a-terre, Diller is restless even in repose. His is a singular physical presence, his fine-boned body at odds with his rock of a head and a gap-toothed grin that is both wary and omnivorous (actually, he looks a lot like David Letterman minus the hair). As Diller talks, he twists himself into ligament-straining positions on the couch. He fidgets with his socks, gets up again and again to fiddle with the thermostat--it's as if he can't help exuding nervous energy...
...condominium apartments along its noisy track and decided to sell them for $90,000 and up, it looked like someone had come up with another Edsel. The acoustically overendowed condos--mere feet away from high-performance cars screaming by at 170 m.p.h.--were even the butt of a David Letterman routine. But the gags are dying away as the trackside units are being resold to wealthy fans of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing and interested corporations for up to $575,000. Says speedway president H.A. ("Humpy") Wheeler: "Our only mistake was that we sold them too cheap...
...RETROSPECT, IT SEEMS A STRANGE cultural aberration. Or maybe a temporary virus. For a couple of years there, David Letterman was the toast of television. After toiling in the wee hours for more than a decade, the host of NBC's Late Night had been passed over for the job as Johnny Carson's successor on the Tonight Show. But he parlayed that slight into a lucrative new contract at CBS and his own 11:30 p.m. show to compete with Jay Leno. The crowds that jammed his studio audience gave him standing ovations every night; his Top 10 lists...
...anymore. Letterman's show has dropped to third place in the ratings, behind both Tonight and ABC's Nightline, and his surly, subversive comedy has gone back to being a minority taste. Leno, after a rocky start, has the hot hand, with newsmaking guests (Hugh Grant, Magic Johnson), big-event ambiance (traveling to the Super Bowl) and the most relentlessly flogged O.J. bits on TV. Now Jay is the one getting the nightly ovations...
Celebrities, yes. Portly fruit-loving professional bridge players, no. Jane Bronstein was the focus of a lot of DAVID LETTERMAN's attention last September after she was filmed vigorously eating a peach at the U.S. Open. The Late Show aired the clip of the "seductive temptress" often, and put it on the Times Square Jumbotron with the caption if this is you...call now! Instead Letterman heard from her lawyer. He stopped showing the tape, but wouldn't pay damages. So Bronstein, who suffers from a thyroid condition, is taking Letterman to court for invasion of privacy. Does Dick Assman...