Word: ricky
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebrity quiver. This spring brings the debut of several children's authors, including playwright WENDY WASSERSTEIN, radio host Garrison Keillor and New Age guru MARIANNE WILLIAMSON. Jamie Lee Curtis' and TIM BURTON's next books are due out in the fall; and Julie Andrews (pen name: Julie Edwards) and RICKI LAKE both have publishers expecting manuscripts. Why children's books? "I think it's a boomer thing--a group of people recapturing their youth," says Wasserstein, whose book is about a girl's first theater visit. Plus, they're easier than autobiographies, although the inspiration for most of them...
Politics--as we vaguely remember every four years--is the most important of the nation's public places. There, of course, the tradition of shamelessness goes back almost to the beginning, spanning the period roughly between the Enlightenment and Ricki Lake...
...spectacle could just as easily turn up on European TV, where nudity, sex and tastelessness are also unavoidable. Consider The Word, a lewd late-night variety show that aired on Britain's Channel 4 for five years and once depicted a viewer eating other peoples' scabs. (Don't tell Ricki Lake...
...shows introduced last year with great fanfare--or at least as much fanfare as could be drummed up for programs built around former stars of Beverly Hills, 90210 and The Partridge Family--only four remain; all are struggling. Even the more established shows have seen their ratings fall. Ricki Lake, whose success prompted the current batch of trash-talking clones, has seen her ratings fall 10% since 1994. Rivera's numbers have dropped even more steeply, 20%, which may indicate that his conversion is not 100% altruistic. Other shows in similar straits--including Mark Walberg's and Jerry Springer...
...teenager, he was host on a show on Armed Forces Radio before returning to the States and attending the University of Arizona. He worked for the deadly B-movie studio Empire Pictures, flunked a veejay audition at mtv, then became a cult fave by making sly mock of Geraldo, Ricki and the rest of the wackpack on Talk Soup. He's been at Later for almost two years...