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...leave you any." The late Joseph Papp wishes for no more theater critics. Strom Thurmond advises a regimen of daily exercise. Howard Cosell, with his trademark bombast (we miss it), offers up a homily: "What is popular is not always right. What is right is not always popular." Oprah Winfrey explains that the things hanging from her ears are called earrings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Talk Show Without Egos THE CLASS OF THE 20TH CENTURY; A&E, Thursdays, 9 p.m. EST | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...ubiquitous sex talk. If it's not born-again transsexuals with psoriasis on Oprah and Phil or the latest investigative expose of swimsuits on A Current Affair, it's the R-rated dishing and dissing on Studs, the syndicated hit that is to the old Dating Game what Sodom was to Sparta. Call them all dirtysomething...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991: SHOW BUSINESS | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...ubiquitous sex talk. If it's not born-again transsexuals with psoriasis on Oprah and Phil or the latest investigative expose of swimsuits on A Current Affair, it's the R-rated dishing and dissing on Studs, the syndicated hit that is to the old Dating Game what Sodom was to Sparta. Call them all dirtysomething...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...stereotypes this time. No Cosby, Oprah, Willie Horton, Michael Jackson, Michael Jordan, Jesse Jackson. The black nominee was a conservative, not a predictable character with a predictable party line. What's this? Blacks are different from one another? Think different thoughts? Men and women, of whatever race, could not begin to search for the truth in the case without looking into themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truths In The Ruins | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...glut has never been so thick. Povich, former host of A Current Affair, is just one of half a dozen newcomers elbowing their way into a field already crowded with such long-distance runners-off-at-the-mouth as Phil Donahue, Oprah Winfrey, Geraldo Rivera, Sally Jessy Raphael, Joan Rivers and the irrepressible Regis & Kathie Lee. Stand-up comic Jenny Jones' new daytime show started off with a bigger initial lineup of stations than any syndicated talk show in history. Montel Williams, a former naval-intelligence officer and motivational speaker, emcees an issue-oriented program currently being test- marketed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Off at the Mouth | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

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