Word: musics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Florida on how crack cocaine is made," announces the pretty blond co-anchor. "And verbal judo on the traffic stop: how you can defuse a volatile situation," intones her handsome male partner over a videotape clip of a police officer approaching a car. To the beat of trendy theme music, the camera pans the posh living-room stage set -- complete with sofas, coffee table and potted plants -- before zooming in again on the two radiant hosts...
...among the important under-35 audience. "I take the view that the public has elected me as a new late-night talk-show host," he says enthusiastically. "I've worked all my life preparing for it, putting together a platform -- my kind of guests, my kind of music, what I think is funny. I've been warming up in the '80s, but I'm really for the '90s. I'm the talk-show host for the MTV generation...
Hall has a new-generation approach to stardom as well: try to do it all. At 30, he is not only the headliner but also the executive producer of his show. He hires the staff, okays the guests and even wrote the theme music. (He has a substantial share of the show's profits.) He has recorded a comedy-music album, Large and In Charge, scheduled for release later this month. On it he performs in the persona of an alter ego, a fat rapper named Chunky A, whom Hall played as a "guest" on his show last...
Hall did not stay out of the talk-show ring for long. In 1986 he joined Marilyn McCoo as co-host of Solid Gold, a syndicated music show. Then he got a call from the Fox Network, asking him to be a last-minute replacement for Frank Zappa as fill-in host of The Late Show, which had just dumped Rivers, its original star. Hall's stint went so well that he was asked back twice the following week. Soon he was doing the program full time...
...MUSIC...