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...good an impression of David Letterman as you'll find outside Saturday Night Live. And this one is way outside. The Dave clone is Harald Schmidt, host of a German late-night talk show that runs four days a week on SAT 1, a channel seen not only in Germany but also in several other European countries from Switzerland to Slovakia. His references to the American talk-show host are sometimes obvious and self-conscious: in one recurring bit, a postman drops off letters and Schmidt greets him, "Oh, look, the letterman." More often he simply copies Letterman's style...
Letterman was also the model for Thomas Koschwitz, a roly-poly German host whose RTL Nightshow copied Dave's bits but not his success: it was canceled in 1995 because of low ratings. Schmidt, 40, a former actor who sports steel-rimmed glasses and designer suits, has done a better job of capturing Letterman's deadpan charisma, and The Harald Schmidt Show is now seen by 1 million Germans a night, a sizable 10% share of the viewing audience. His sometimes off-color jokes and frequent ethnic put-downs have earned Schmidt the nickname "Dirty Harry." For his advocates, however...
Houston (Reynolds 8-10) at Cincinnati (Mercker 8-11), 12:35 p.m. St. Louis (Morris 11-8) at Pittsburgh (Schmidt 9-8), 6:05 p.m. N. Y. Mets (Jones 14-9) at Florida (Hernandez 9-2), 7:05 p.m. Montreal (Valdes 4-4) at Atlanta (Maddux 19-4), 7:40 p.m. San Fran. (Rueter 13-6) at San Diego (Ashby...
...Novell has a big geek of its own. Sun Microsystems' house genius, Eric Schmidt, 41, is going to head up the struggling company. Schmidt is credited with helping build Sun (1996 sales: $7 billion) into a hardware behemoth. Soft-spoken and given to windy though usually hysterical jokes, he has a long trail of success: millions in the bank, oodles of patents, the respect of the industry. Why jump to Novell? Friends say there's only one other thing he wants: Bill Gates' scalp...
...When the U.S. Army closed in on Germany, my father succeeded in escaping, but other family members, along with other prisoners, were shot. You mentioned that 30,000 Jewish refugees were turned away at the Swiss border. An equal number of political refugees must have shared that fate. HELMUT SCHMIDT Orgeval, France...