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...first Knicks game in 1963, when he was just 20 years old. Once strictly a New York sportscaster, Albert became an acquired taste for the nation in the 1980s after NBC placed him front and center for N.F.L., N.B.A. and Olympics telecasts. Over the years, he has been David Letterman's most frequent guest, usually presenting the Albert Achievement Awards. The title of his 1993 autobiography describes his career fairly well: I'd Love to but I Have a Game: Twenty-Seven Years Without a Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORTSCASTERS BEHAVING BADLY? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...both the Globe's sting operation and the news that his daughter Victoria, from his first marriage, is divorcing Michael Kennedy because Kennedy cheated on her with the family baby-sitter. Gifford surely doesn't deserve to be the subject of so many monologue jokes by Jay Leno and Letterman. Frank has to answer to Kathie Lee. Albert, on the other hand, has to answer to the Arlington authorities this week, when he is arraigned on the charges. One of the attorneys defending him will be John Q. Kelly, proving once again that this is a small world. Not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORTSCASTERS BEHAVING BADLY? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...speed." Still, her detractors say her behavior in the job has not helped her cause. They describe Tarses as both insecure and out of her depth, driving underlings hard and treating former friends and colleagues shabbily. She raised eyebrows by ordering two pilots co-produced by her boyfriend, former Letterman executive producer Robert Morton, and giving one of them, Over the Top (a sitcom starring Tim Curry), a choice Tuesday-night time period. Worse, from the standpoint of Hollywood's dealmakers, she is perceived as having been stripped of real power by her bosses, Iger and Disney chairman Michael Eisner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: WILL JAMIE GET WITH THE PROGRAM? | 6/2/1997 | See Source »

...immaculate confection" aside, the Holy Mother of Calcutta has asked Nashville coffeehouse owner Bob Bernstein to quit baking his famed buns, shaped in her image, for his Bongo Java coffeehouse. She?s thinking lawsuit. Bernstein, whose $1.89 pastry has attracted a barrage of international publicity, from the BBC to Letterman, has no intention of shutting down his ovens, arguing: "If it were sacrilege, we'd stop. But it's not." While the coffeehouse's Nun Bun web site (http://www.qecmedia.com/nunbun/index.html) portrays the original pastry as a "religious piece of dough" inadvertently discovered by a store employee, the selection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother Teresa Gets Tough | 5/22/1997 | See Source »

...call our late-night option, 'The Late-Show' and we thought of that name before David Letterman," Orefice says...

Author: By Lisa N. Brennan-jobs, | Title: Eat Your Heart Out | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

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