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...news didn't get better. A day later, it was revealed that David Letterman, host of NBC's popular late-night show, had been offered more than $14 million a year from CBS to jump networks. NBC has a month to match the deal, but will be hard pressed to do so. The ratings last week showed NBC trailing CBS and ABC by a large margin. It all looked, as Letterman explained sardonically, like a grand plan to keep NBC in last place. (See related story on page...
...Gore's alleged failure to loosen up during public appearances bothers us because we expect our leaders to jump through hoops on Letterman's "Stupid Pet Tricks" to prove they're just average guys like the rest...
Even a cool shot of New England air can't cool off this lineup--Charlie Musselwhite on blues harmonica, Letterman keyboardist Paul Shaffer, and Memphis R&B maestro Eddie Floyd. Blues-inspired rockers Paul Rogers and Joe Walsh team up with the Blues Brothers Band for "Hold On I'm Coming" and "Soul Man," and Commitments lead singer Andrew Strong belts out "Mustang Sally," accompanied by Jason Starkey, Ringo Starr's son. Shortest, but not least, is "Monster" Mikey Welch, a thirteenyear-old blues guitar prodigy who plays with the savvy of a bluesman twice or three times...
...print a month after its publication date, The Way Things Ought to Be is the hottest hard-cover nonfiction title since Iacocca. Then he tries TV, and within a few weeks his late-night harangue is beating Whoopi Goldberg in the ratings and is up there with David Letterman and Arsenio Hall. These days, Rush is so busy that, as he lamented on the radio recently, "I don't even know what century I'm living...
Newsweek described the Lampoon, which hasproduced writers for "Saturday Night Live," "LateNight With David Letterman" and "The Simpsons," asHarvard's "college-humor factory...