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...Wellesley College Society has angered many students by reprinting a controversial Top 10 list from Late Night with David Letterman on its invitations for a Friday night social event...

Author: By Gady A. Epstein, | Title: Wellesley Organization Offends Students There | 11/5/1990 | See Source »

...whiz through titles like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the men are stumped by Jaws. But the Hollywood-meets-the-heartland satire falls a little flat. My Talk Show is too straitlaced and good-natured; it needs a bit of the rudeness of Late Night with David Letterman. Or at least some quirkier performers. Where have you gone, Louise Lasser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: My In-Law, The Housefly | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...LIFE (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. EDT). Chris Elliott, former Late Night with David Letterman cutup, plays a nerdy 30-year-old still living with his parents. Elliott's manic gooniness is an acquired taste, but this so-dumb- it's-funny sitcom could be his breakthrough to mainstream success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 22, 1990 | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN BOOK OF TOP TEN LISTS (Pocket Books; $8.95). Ever since they were introduced in 1985, Letterman's nightly Top 10 lists have been his show's most reliable laugh getters, a shrewd mix of topical satire and frat-house nuttiness. Recycled in book form, they are just as funny to read. Here again are Jim Bakker's Top 10 Pickup Lines ("Pray here often?"; "Your eyes are the same color as my leisure suit"), Princess Diana's Top 10 Complaints about Prince Charles (always calls Pizza Hut before we've decided on topping we want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 8, 1990 | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...Election Day Pauley had her first TV job: as a reporter at WISH-TV, the Indianapolis CBS affiliate. She specialized in farm stories, anchored a Saturday-night newscast, and found herself the butt of jokes by a local radio personality named David Letterman. After three years at the station, she caught the eye of executives at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, who were looking for someone to co-anchor the evening news. A few days after her audition, Pauley got a call from the station's news director, offering her the job and a salary more than triple what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JANE PAULEY: Surviving Nicely, Thanks | 8/20/1990 | See Source »

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