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While the vast majority of the book can be grating to those readers who feel glutted after just one or two Merv Griffin Shows, the message one takes away can be quite moving. Embedded in the humor we find a barely suppressed fear: for Jack and Babette the reliance on machinery, drugs and quick answers spells an end to basic human dignity, and all they can think about is dying before they have really lived. And the Cracker-Jack Box prize, the incentive for late night page mongers is DeLillo's dialogue, especially between father and precocious son, or father...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Welcome to America! | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...show at a farm near Ocala that included 36 of his Arabians. The day before, the Armand Hammer Arabian Classic was run at Pompano Park. "Arabian horses are works of art," he says. "They are beautiful and lucrative." Hammer has been recommending them to friends. Talk Show Host Merv Griffin, 59, has already invested. Joked Griffin: "When Armand Hammer talks, E.F. Hutton listens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 16, 1984 | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

...hour talk show, Tom Cottle: Up Close, is syndicated on 50 stations around the country, usually in the daytime hours when the schedule is awash in soap operas. Typical guests include such stars as Liv Ullmann, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Sid Caesar, Phyllis Diller and Milton Berle. But a Merv Griffin he is not; no idle chitchat for Cottle, who oozes edge-of-the-chair empathy as he delves into his guests' hurts, histories, loves and divorces. Their upholstered chair might as well be a couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Detective of Heartache | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...epitomizes the idea of being famous for nothing other than being famous is for once moved. "I have always wanted to be a robot," says Warhol. "I can finally accept talk show invitations. The robot can go on for me." At last, the perfect match for Merv Griffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 15, 1982 | 11/15/1982 | See Source »

...logo is satanic and that Procter & Gamble is somehow involved in the worship of the devil. The talk first surfaced in January 1980, and reappeared two years later when the firm began getting thousands of phone calls about stories that company officials had confessed on the Phil Donahue and Merv Griffin television shows that Procter & Gamble and its top executives were supporting devil worship. There were never any such programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moon Wars | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

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