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...never thought I'd say this, but the David-Letterman-vs.-"Nightline" controversy has actually made me feel sorry for Michael Eisner...
...parent company Disney are being accused of selling out journalism itself - all for negotiating with the late-night talk-show host to jump from CBS and replace Ted Koppel. (Letterman draws younger viewers and so more advertiser's dollars, whereas news programs are traditionally a magnet for Metamucil ads.) The news sent New York's chattering class into a frenzy; as of this writing, this national crisis has prompted three front-page New York Times articles, and counting...
Though the turning point for America's moral agenda is surely Sept. 11, chroniclers of the arts and other leisure activities still observe the Julian calendar. Hence our annual review of cultural events, recalled with fondness or contempt. Except for the film Kandahar and David Letterman's TV show, the items cited here do not relate directly to the attacks on the U.S. But they do speak to our need to look back: to Greek myths (reinvented off-Broadway), to John Adams (in a new biography), to '70s punk (rekindled by the Strokes). We also look up (at the winged...
...DAVID LETTERMAN'S POST-SEPT. 11 RETURN Irony was dead, they said. Humor was unseemly. And late-night comics, those unacknowledged legislators of America, no longer had anything to say to us. Yet it took a late-night comic to voice, movingly and indelibly, how we felt. "We're told [the terrorists] were zealots fueled by religious fervor," said the subdued but resilient host. "If you live to be a thousand years old, will that make any sense to you? Will that make any goddam sense?" And just as important, he--and his counterparts at The Daily Show, South Park...
Joining Cavanaugh in the freshman class is Andrew Letterman, a center with considerable speed and playmaking potential who should eventually put up good scoring numbers. Size and toughness will hopefully be provided by winger Brendan Bernakevitch. Rounding out the foursome is Rob Flynn, a product of the U.S. under-18 national team whom Mazzoleni will utilize as a power forward...