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Hucksterism is a deeply American trait. P.T. Barnum was a truer man of his time and place than Henry James, and sharpies' 19th century land-promoting broadsides sucked more settlers west than any high-minded exhortations to manifest destiny. If England is a nation of shopkeepers, the U.S. is a...
Publishers have barreled down the same cynical, slippery slope. Not so long ago, readers of autobiographies were meant to understand that Sammy Davis or William Paley actually produced his memoir. About a decade ago, the pretense was dropped and ghostwriters' names went onto book jackets; nobody minded. Now comes an...
"This is an industry in which weird stuff happens," says Paine Webber analyst Alan Gottesman. Weirdness is fine. There are plenty of goofy-sounding new cable channels in the works -- a channel devoted entirely to food, another devoted entirely to golf -- but at least behind those are single-minded individuals...
Zoglin, who counts himself a "huge fan," has been following Letterman for more than a decade -- tuning in nearly every night since Late Night first aired in 1982. Zoglin arrived at TIME the next year, after four years as TV critic at the Atlanta Constitution. Since then he has watched...
Au contraire, says Thomas: "The people who are disturbed by it are those who think classical music ought to be way up on a pedestal, which is something my dad didn't believe in at all. He probably wouldn't have minded the T shirts a bit."