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...large, we reacted by wholeheartedly supporting the war against terrorism both at home and abroad. Editorials and op-eds embraced such liberal-media bugbears as ethnic profiling. Writers were fired for criticizing George W. Bush. Dan Rather- who once had an on-air run-in with Bush's father - now swore his fealty to Bush the Younger on David Letterman. We put flags on our video graphics, our covers and our lapels. TV networks accepted an unprecedented administration request that they limit their airing of al-Qaeda videotapes. Fox turned over an hour of prime-time (albeit by bumping...
...Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson; in Los Angeles. Before starting at the Tonight Show, De Cordova produced TV programs for George Burns and the Smothers Brothers, among others, and directed the 1951 chimp comedy Bedtime for Bonzo, co-starring Ronald Reagan. A frequent target of Carson's on-air jokes, De Cordova called his job "the best in television...
...much the same way that my late night hero, David Letterman could not bring himself to jump back into the merriment of stupid human tricks or cynical jokes about the Commander-in-Chief when his show went on-air again, I can’t justify spending time reading about the right way to flirt with a crush or why the red and pink two-piece combo is so last season. The alternating accounts of devastation and heroism that are a constant part of most conversations and news clips have made whimsical decisions and activities harder to enjoy...
Even though Drew’s car-of-choice is the oft-mentioned on-air Colt Vista, as a Harvard freshman there is little time for driving. He says that his father and uncle have been good mentors: “[my uncles are] trained in the art of BS. They always make their answers sound confident but the answers are only right 60-70% of the time.” From the garage to the Yard, Drew is cruising...
...Archie like a shambling, endangered silverback gorilla prowling and growling futilely around the carpeted perimeter of his living room. The values he developed through the depression and a war were fraying and decaying like his upholstered TV-watching throne. (The prominence of his other throne - the upstairs toilet whose on-air flushing was so shocking three decades ago - underscored the theme of Archie as an Astoria King Lear...