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Thanks to its grotesqueries, the Mutter is beginning to trade offbeat obscurity for popular renown. Five years ago, it drew just 4,300 visitors; this year's attendance will be nearly four times that. Says Worden, who has appeared on David Letterman's show three times: "We're getting better known because we're just so interesting." The museum's photo calendar, she adds, sells briskly. The first ones, issued in 1993, are now collector's items, at $40 apiece. Each picture, like each exhibit, is a memento mori, a ghoulish reminder of our own mortality, malevolently fascinating, weirdly beautiful...
Indeed, the North-Robb race has proved to be a rich source of comic material. David Letterman drew up a Top 10 List of mock campaign slogans for North. No. 7 was, "A man of convictions. None of them pending." (North's three convictions in the Iran-contra case were overturned on a technicality.) And Garry Trudeau featured North as arrogant and a chronic prevaricator in his syndicated Doonesbury comic strip last week...
...Letterman Returning...
Sure, there were judges and educators. But had any of them appeared on Letterman...
Finally, He sat next to me. What could I do but introduce myself? I did, and we had a little chat, which, in memory, seems to blend in with his Letterman appearance and the hushed secrets of the graduating class...