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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Phil" shoves the papers forward, almost rudely. "Come on honey," he drawls, "only one dollar." He blocks the passers-by. "Spare Change. Helping the homeless help themselves...

Author: By Sonna Moon, | Title: For the MOMENT | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...woman doesn't answer, shouldering her way past with a cursory glance and quick shuffle forward; she assumes an indifferent look. "Phil" answers with a growl and glare before resuming his business. "Hey beautiful, can you spare a little change?" His tone remains sarcastic...

Author: By Sonna Moon, | Title: For the MOMENT | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

HOST/SHOW Phil Cowan and Paul Robins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Few, We Happy Few, We Band of Nightly Talk-Show Flops | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

...Limbaugh's fans had been in Hartford, Connecticut, just three days earlier, they could have had their own dark, resentful suspicions confirmed. It was a symposium on infotainment featuring a quorum of the national media elite -- Sam Donaldson, Bernard Kalb, Phil Donahue. When Donaldson, who says he often listens to Limbaugh, slammed him for calling certain feminists "feminazis" and for "his ad hominem attacks and ghoulish humor," the audience of 2,000 erupted in approving hoots and applause. Mary Matalin, who managed George Bush's campaign last year, was also on the panel, and she asked how many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big Mouths | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

Stern is at heart a deeply perverse jester, and looks and sounds like one. When he chased Phil Donahue in order to kiss him (to Phil's extreme displeasure) on Donahue's show two weeks ago, he was being the pedal-to-the- metal performance artist one expects. And his unedited riffing can often be, as charged, disgusting: his jokes 11 years ago about his wife's miscarriage were inexcusable, his now defunct TV show's low-rent T&A spectacle a depressing glimpse into a New Jersey heart of darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big Mouths | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

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