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...score. "We'd hand in a list of 50 guests, and he'd say no to 48," says a frustrated former booker. He is also notoriously moody and has last-minute pangs of self-doubt. "In the makeup room five minutes before the show," says head writer Rob Burnett, "Dave will suddenly say, 'This bit is not going to work.' Sometimes he needs to be almost pushed in front of the camera." After the show, he typically replays the videotape and broods about mistakes or bits that misfired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Letterman: New Dave Dawning | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...pizza that won't be delivered by the company's swift red-and-blue- uniformed workers; customers will have to cart the monster home themselves. Fighting it out for second place are Little Caesar's Big! Big! Cheese and Pizza Hut's Bigfoot, both roughly 2 sq. ft. Says Rob Doughty, a Pizza Hut vice president for marketing: "Consumers were giving us a very simple message: they wanted something bigger and more fun for their money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Fast-Food Pig-Out | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

When Jennifer Wilbert of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, developed schizophrenia at 16, she began a distressing odyssey through the mental-health-care system. Overwhelmed by dangerous delusions, terror and frequent bouts of depression, she needed immediate hospitalization. That is when her parents, Rob and Joan, discovered that their insurance would pay for only 30 days of care. It was not enough. Jennifer, who is now 21, was hospitalized at first for four months. To care for her daughter with constant supervision at home, Joan Wilbert took a leave of absence from her job as a clerk at the state department of revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Price Mental Health? | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

AUTHORS: MUSIC AND LYRICS BY MARK NUTTER; BOOK BY PETER BURNS, MARK NUTTER, ROB RILEY AND TOM WOLFE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restoring The Norm | 5/24/1993 | See Source »

...entirely uncritical movie, although a surprisingly likable one. Part of this quality derives from the lively innocence of Jason Scott Lee's performance, and the sweet spunkiness of Lauren Holly as the all-American coed Bruce marries in college. Part of it derives from the go-ahead conviction of Rob Cohen's direction. He foreshadows his hero's early death by having his dreams haunted by fate (giddily yet scarily represented as a warrior figure out of China's ancient past) and proposes that Lee ran so hard, so fast in an attempt to outdistance this grim stalker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Hard, Running Fast | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

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