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...Update suggested by NBC-TV's David Letterman last week...
...want them to stick me with Rocky," Douglas told David Letterman. Still, this mild man from Columbus is stuck with a hero's biography. His father Bill was a sparky middleweight who funneled his dreams into young Buster. Another inspirer, Buster's manager John Johnson, helped steer his fighter through recent family tragedies -- especially the death of his mother Lula last month -- and toward a bout with Tyson. Boxing savants expected it to be one more anonymous sacrifice to the Kong of sport. But Douglas had strength, stamina and grace. And he lacked what other Tyson victims have brought into...
...Roger & Me is the rare documentary film that doesn't make viewers feel they are being force-fed a civics lesson. But perhaps the movie is no documentary. Its tone, which tempers populist anger with deadpan facetiousness, is heard in much modern comedy -- sort of Laid Off with David Letterman. Moore classifies the film as "a dark comedy, social satire, 'mockumentary...
...years major record companies like Columbia and RCA have < scrambled to hook up with rap labels. MTV, once criticized for ostracizing hip-hop videos, gives Yo! MTV Raps 30 minutes on its daily schedule. Master rappers D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince have appeared on the David Letterman show. The Grammy Awards got into the act last year when it created its first rap-music category. Meanwhile, mainstream musicians like pop producer and jazz trumpeter Quincy Jones are including rap tracks on their new albums...
Late Night with David Letterman (NBC, 1982- ). While waiting for Johnny Carson to retire, Dave went out and reinvented the talk show. After nearly eight years of NBC jokes, stupid pet tricks and Larry ("Bud") Melman, his video fun house is as inventive and fiercely funny as ever...