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Putting Harvard on the late night television map, O'Brien filled Late Night veteran David Letterman's 12:30 a.m. time slot...
...contemporaries," defined as plays written between 1856, the year of Shaw's birth, and 1950, when he died. Noel Coward has been produced 11 times, becoming a secondary focus, and Granville Barker is scheduled for the same treatment. The one-act Rococo will appear next season in a lunchtime slot on the schedule, traditionally reserved for short Shaw (such as this season's tiresome young-Napoleon foofaraw, The Man of Destiny). A full-length work, Waste or His Majesty, will appear the season after. The Shaw Festival's resurrection began with The Voysey Inheritance in 1988. It has since been...
...late-night drawling room has never been so crowded: Jay, Dave and Chevy competing for viewers with Arsenio Hall and Conan O'Brien, Dave's NBC replacement in the late-late slot. The new guys are joining a high-stakes poker game where Rick Dees, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak, Dennis Miller, Ron Reagan and Whoopi Goldberg have played and, expensively, folded. Arsenio's audience -- his rainbow coalition of young viewers, a high proportion of them women -- has ebbed recently, and will slip further when his syndicated show is bumped toward dawn on many CBS and Fox affiliates...
...combo. O'Brien's wish list of guests includes Larry Bird, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Get Smart's Don Adams and biographer Robert Caro. But the star will be Conan, and the sizable shadow will be Dave's. "He did ; something innovative in the 12:30 time slot," O'Brien says. "And I'm inheriting this legacy. So I feel a responsibility both to do a good show and to try some different things. I'd like to be proud of this...
Some academics, including Harvard's own Professor Stephen J. Gould, contend that it's worth putting a nickel into the SETI slot machine even if the odds are immense. There might be a huge payoff, but this is a billion dollar-nickel in times when the nation can least afford...