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...when it is all over, Diana will be laid to rest on a small island within the Spencer family estate itself ? allowing her sons to visit her in private, and giving her a peace she rarely knew in life...
That statement, from an interview published just last week, is now tragic, and piercingly sour. In trying to be a woman, she remained a target. Because of the hungry economics of voyeurism, her sons have no mother. At 36, of fame and fatal injuries, Lady Diana Spencer is dead...
Neither host is an expert interviewer, and Spencer can be particularly awkward, but both are fairly relaxed and pleasant presences. Each has his mildly funny moments, mining the same vein of racial humor. Spencer's joke about his show in his first monologue--"How often can a brother go into a million homes without getting arrested?"--is typical. Wayans does more comedy bits than Spencer, and while not overly original, his overdubbing of a Japanese martial-arts film with hip-hop dialogue and singing was amusing. Nothing he has done so far, though, is nearly as clever as the best...
Preliminary ratings last week for both shows were good--Wayans averaged a 3.6 over his first four nights, while Spencer measured 3.0. Leno, meanwhile, pulled a 5.9, Letterman a 3.8. Both newcomers may be able to survive, since despite going head to head in New York City and L.A., they are not seen at the same time in most markets and since advertisers yearn to reach young adults. Whether they both should survive is another question. There's a place for late-night programming that reaches out to bring fresh faces to TV. But who's going to watch...
...writes that just before shooting began on Champion, the Lardner boxing story that would make Kirk Douglas a star, the actor got a nose job and said that in the fight scenes he couldn't get hit in the face. Kramer says he resented Harry Cohn and loved Spencer Tracy. But his telling is juiceless; there's not much life in this life...