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...primetime special “Families Stand Together: Feeling Secure In Tough Times,” was an especially apt example of how Sesame Street offers both a message to children and the chance for adults to take a step back and reassess our thinking. Hosted by Al Roker, Deborah Roberts, and financial expert Jean Chatzky, the episode presented practical suggestions to families on how to discuss financial woes with children and weather the economic storm. It also emphasized that this country must face the current crisis with some sense of mutual cooperation...
More so than anything after graduation, this class needs to understand and handle adversity. Matt Lauer faces adversity every day. He has verbally grappled with the eloquent Ann Coulter, debated the high intellect of Tom Cruise, and, somehow, Matt Lauer goes to work with Al Roker EVERY DAY of the year. These battle scars may seem trite, but, in the annals of daytime television, they are nothing short of legendary. Just last week, the man survived a wild deer attack. No word on whether the deer was so fortunate...
...people of Scranton aren't bitter at all; in fact, they're downright enthused. The local tourist bureau hosted a massive Office convention last October that officials said drew more than 10,000 fans of the show to this city of about 75,000; the Today Show's Al Roker gave the weather report direct from the University of Scranton during the event. The bureau has just launched an official Office tour, featuring Poor Richard's Pub and other locations mentioned in the show. "It is still amazing to me how much press this has generated for us," says Tracy...
Balder men can be aldermen, even Governors and Senators. We seem to have a competitive advantage as late-night TV sidekicks (Paul Shaffer and Kevin Eubanks) and early-morning TV weathermen (Al Roker and Willard Scott...
...FORECAST: A BLACK SPELL OF WEATHER Al Roker in a windbreaker is no longer the height of meteorological comedy. Funnyman LEWIS BLACK is upping the ante, as the Daily Show correspondent becomes the first celebrity to deliver the forecast on the Weather Channel this week. "I'll just be doing what I do best, yelling and screaming about something no one has any control over," says Black, who appears on the cable network's Evening Edition. Black notes that David Letterman started as a weatherman in Indiana. "Both jobs," he says, "are about making palatable the fact that the next...