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...Brien settled into the job, however, his neophyte weaknesses began to show. He leans into his guests (Tony Randall, Mary Matalin and Ed McMahon among others last week) like a high school kid on a job interview. His sidekick, Andy Richter, is a superfluous appendage. The prepared comedy bits have occasionally been funny (a takeoff on Letterman's Small-Town News in which the "real" items were faked) but more often tacky (bogus interviews with celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, with moving mouths superimposed on photos of them). O'Brien has decorated his rec-room set with pictures of TV personalities...
...noting a sudden dearth of mature behavior, 30 year-old O'Brien admonished sidekick Andy Ritchker: "We have to be professional. We can't act like people who are too young...
...city. Here lies a sprawling shantytown of 70 salvage yards, and journalists are about as welcome as the rusty mud after a heavy rain. "Is that your car?" barks the manager of one junkyard. "Leave it there a couple of hours, and see what ! happens to it." His sidekick, an unfriendly German shepherd, growls in agreement...
Along the way, Robin Hood meets up with Little John (Eric Allan Kramer) and Will Scarlet O'Hara (Matthew Porretta). He also has a blind sidekick Blinkin (Mark Blankfield). Basically, that's the whole plot...
When Clinton and his environmentalist sidekick, Al Gore, took office, they were already well aware that America's ecology was in crisis. From the spotted owls and salmon in the Northwest to woodpeckers and salamanders in the Southeast, many species were on the brink of extinction, and the implications were ominous. Says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, architect of the Administration's natural-resource policy: "This really isn't about just preserving strange species with incomprehensible names. In every single case, that species is the warning light about the decline in productivity of an ecosystem." In the past, the debate...