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Updated: Oct. 2, 2009 at 11:40 a.m. Confessions have become something of a staple for guests on late-night comedy shows. Stars as varied as Hugh Grant, Michael Richards and Kanye West have made appearances to talk about - and publicly apologize for - their mistakes. But the guy twisting in the spotlight on last night's Late Show with David Letterman was Letterman himself...
Reportedly, Halderman lived until recently with Stephanie Birkitt, Letterman's personal assistant and a sometime character on his show. In 2002 she told Entertainment Weekly "He's the best boss I've ever had." Extracts from her diaries were reportedly in the package in Letterman...
...screenplay about Letterman's affairs. "He's going to take all of the terrible stuff he knows about my life - and there seems to be quite a lot of terrible stuff he knows about - and he's going to put it in a movie," explained Letterman on the show. Still, the host was clearly unnerved. "I want to reiterate how terrifying this is," he said. "I am a seething mass of Lutheran Midwestern guilt." (See the top 10 late night jokes...
...Apparently neither the extortion attempt, nor the fact that Letterman slept with women on his show, were news to Letterman's wife of seven months, Regina Lasko, who had told Letterman's mother Dorothy Mengering about it earlier in the day. "I'm looking forward to seeing the show to see what he has to say," Mengering told the New York Daily News. "I really just found out today...
...Obama Administration had sought talks with Iran since taking office in January but had been rebuffed until now. Under growing pressure from Capitol Hill and allies in Europe and Israel to show results for his engagement strategy, Obama had warned Iran that failure to discuss international concerns over its nuclear program would be met with an escalation of sanctions. U.S. and European diplomats had taken great care to lower expectations for the Geneva meeting - the metric of success, they stressed, would be the tone of the meeting and Tehran's willingness to engage on the issues of most concern...