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...that. Delivered by satellite five nights a week to a syndicate of 124 stations, Thicke of the Night is a dizzy 90-minute circus with Alan Thicke as an amiable ringmaster. Heavily hyped in print ads and on billboards, the show was put together by ex-NBC President Fred Silverman, who is betting that Carson's bedside manner is growing passé for children of the TV generation...
...format devised by Silverman and Thicke seems designed to be all things to all young people. It attempts to combine the insouciance of David Letterman with Carson's unflappability, mixed with generous helpings of Saturday Night Lives repertory company and rock music, plus the shtiks and skits of SCTV. The show's symbolically apt set, with its crisscross scaffolding, tacky colors and potted ferns, is a hotel-lobby hodgepodge...
Filling up 90 minutes nightly is a Sisyphean task. Several times last week the final 15 minutes degenerated into a painful post-mortem of the previous hour and 15. Early shares in selected cities averaged about 8 compared with Carson's 20. Advertisers apparently remain confident: according to Silverman, national spots are already sold out through March. But to relieve late-night audience ennui, the show must first cure its own schizophrenia. Notes Thicke: "It will take about six to eight weeks to find a groove that is comfortable. Variety is fine, but we have a little too much...
...program, available for more than three decades, this year has more than 100,000 students enrolled. Recently, the range of materials it distributes to make TIME a more effective teaching tool has been greatly expanded. Says Program Manager Nanci Silverman: "We want to make it easy for teachers to use the magazine as a textbook, or in any other way they wish." Media Management Services Inc., a management consulting firm in Yardley, Pa., surveyed thousands of teachers for their reactions to the program and suggestions for materials. As a result, new research, writing and vocabulary skill-building units have been...
...drew 3,000 registrants, triple last year's attendance, when the sounds were still percolating in urban clubs. Along with performers sporting exploded haircuts, leather earrings and unisex makeup, the execs celebrated rock's sizzling summer with predictions about an even more lucrative fall. Said Organizer Tom Silverman of independent Tommy Boy Records: "People are all psyched up here. It's a changing of the guard. Instead of preaching, even the white-beards are listening." What they are hearing right now is bound to keep their toes, and their calculators, tapping to the beat...