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NAME: Al ("the Roke") Roker OCCUPATION: Serving weather with a smile BEST PUNCH: On the Today show, Roker named theme restaurants as the worst fad of the '90s, saying, "They were basically a reason to foist really bad food and cheap merchandise on Americans and tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 13, 1999 | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...have a video camera instead of a torch. And she would welcome them all to Manhattan--the huddled, sign-hoisting, body-painted masses yearning to be filmed. At the crack of dawn, they're at Rockefeller Plaza, peering into the NBC Today show's glass-walled studios, pestering Al Roker for a chance to say hi to Aunt Connie in Flat Rock. By afternoon, they're choking Times Square sidewalks outside MTV's fishbowl studio in hopes of getting into a crowd shot on Total Request Live. At various other times, they might hit either site for an open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Living in Glass Houses | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Nobody scores more points than King. The only one who can challenge him is Al Roker, only because he scores in so many categories. If Roker ever puts out a music album, it's over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jon Stewart | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...ROKER President tells weathermen they're not just airheads, plus they get White House lawn stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 13, 1997 | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...some reason, the bats and balls do not enthrall, there are other things. On Wednesday, 100 weathermen blew into Washington, D.C. to give the President his annual tribute of Al Roker's weight in gold--and basically to yak about global warming, which, as Al said, "we don't like." They should have all watched Soylent Green (1973): Chuck Heston in a classic 'open your eyes, dammit!' film with a conscience, in which pollution, overpopulation, and the greenhouse effect have conspired to cram 40 million people into New York, where it is 95 degrees year-round. A very sweaty movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When It Was a Couch Potato | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

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