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...typical response when things get bad is to flick on Letterman (or, heaven forbid, Conan O'Brien...
Poor baby! David Letterman should not have been shocked when Madonna socked it to him and used four-letter words on his late-night talk show ((PEOPLE, April 11)). He makes a living taking unflattering, even cruel shots at people who are not present, including Madonna, upon whom he regularly performs monologue muggings, so he should have been better prepared. The only thing he wasn't ready for was the way she did it -- in his face. But don't worry, Dave, it's not Karma, just show...
...DAVID LETTERMAN...
Newspapers -- remember them? They're where people used to get their infotainment before CNN, Hard Copy and the Letterman Top 10 list. Kids don't read them much anymore; newspapers are nostalgia items for the geriatric Gutenberg generation. And even more anachronistic are newspaper movies, which were nearly always about rapacious reporters chiseling bereaved losers out of their private dignity. Five Star Final, The Front Page (His Girl Friday in the Cary Grant edition) and Ace in the Hole were papers in nutshell, tabloid on celluloid. They gave you the headlines, the editorial and the funnies too. The subject...
...less important than a proper fund of sober intelligence. That's certainly the working philosophy of Bruce Handy. As the new senior editor of TIME's Chronicles section, Handy masterminds the pages that open each issue with an overview of the week that's part David Brinkley, part David Letterman...