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This rather bizarre brush with death occurred when O’Donnell, then a writer for the “Late Show with David Letterman,” was testing out a sketch that would be performed on that evening’s show...
...comes off as a genuine jerk, he refuses to play it for laughs or sympathy. Besides being ornery, he's also highly-intelligent, and colorful. He's a working-class intellectual, a reactionary liberal, and a sympathetic jerk. (He is oddball enough to have appeared several times on David Letterman's old "Late Night" show.) It's a complex portrait, and consequently one of the most rewarding in the medium...
...portable radios blaring as the sound track for frantic wage slaves. If a teen isn't trussed to his headphones or plugged into a chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. America is running in place, in the spa or at work. And after Letterman and Clinton, nobody takes the world seriously; everything is up for laughs...
...Albert Einstein, reputedly his mother's boyfriend. A sort of West Coast Will Hunting, Gottleib worked as a janitor at Stanford, where he simultaneously beat 30 professors at chess. After his nightclub and TV appearances in the 1950s and '60s waned, he resurfaced on Late Night with David Letterman in the 1980s...
...portable radios blaring as the sound track for frantic wage slaves. If a teen isn't trussed to his headphones or plugged into a chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. America is running in place, in the spa or at work. And after Letterman and Clinton, nobody takes the world seriously; everything is up for laughs...