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...news didn't surprise, but the forum sure did. Bob Dole has wanted to be President almost forever--this will be his third try--and an announcement was expected soon. But not last Friday night, and certainly not on David Letterman's Late Show. But why not? Richard Nixon said ``Sock it to me'' on Laugh-In in 1968, and later appraised his cameo as ``a stroke that helped people see I wasn't just that Tricky Dick, meanspirited son-of-a-bitch.'' So Dole took a page from the Nixon playbook, and for the same reason. If he feared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYES ON THE PRIZE | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

...Simpsons. Saturday Night Live. Letterman. Conan. Harvard is not only capable of consuming popular culture at a healthy clip, but the university also has a sneaky way of actually producing the "best" of the nighttime lineup. And thanks to Conan O'Brien, Harvard's connection to showbiz is now common knowledge, for better or for worse. Forget the alumni network in Washington or on Wall Street--Hollywood is the latest Crimson conquest...

Author: By Maika R. Pollack, | Title: The Gewanter Connection | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

Madonna. The Material Girl, rapidly running out of material, tried pouty intransigence and four-letter words on David Letterman's Late Show, an appearance that proved you can turn your head away from a train wreck. By the end of her bleepathon, even the studio audience was hooting her off the stage. She tried to salvage the p.r. disaster by acting like Little Bo Peep on Jay Leno's show and cooing with Dave at the MTV awards. No sale. Terumi Matthews in Madonna: Innocence Lost was more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Television of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...elect last night finally agreed to meet one-on-one with Giuliani, who broke GOP ranks to endorse Democratic incumbent Gov. Mario Cuomo this fall. The ice-breaker: Pataki relented on tight fiscal proposals affecting the city's public employees and schools. The standoff had caught the notice ofDavid Letterman, who listed as one of his "top 10 signs your new governor is nuts": "Won't return the phone call of the best damn mayor of the best damn city of the best damn country in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK MAYOR . . . PATAKI ON LINE ONE | 11/23/1994 | See Source »

...David Letterman hosts an hour-long CBS special with excerpts from previous shows. Monday. at 10 p.m. ET.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EARLY LATE SHOW | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

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