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...stations. Viacom hopes O&A can duplicate their ratings success in New York, where they are often No. 1 in their prime demographic-- men 25 to 49. Gregg (Opie) Hughes (he looks like Opie from The Andy Griffith Show), 36, and Anthony Cumia, 39, are the descendants of Howard Stern, replacing his sour trangressiveness with male realpolitik: while Stern interviews strippers, O&A just want them to take off their clothes...
Viacom also syndicates the flagging Stern, who is no fan of O&A. And vice versa. "He's been working off the same formula for a long time: Here's a girl, get naked, hoo hoo hoo," says Opie. "It's the same midgets, the same pinheads. For today's society, you have to keep things interesting." Interesting isn't always tasteful, as when Jay Mohr, the actor, comedian and frequent guest, sang the song Full Blown AIDS, making fun of AIDS patients...
...what O&A are most famous for is "Whip 'em Out Wednesdays," when women are encouraged to flash guys who have WOW bumper stickers on their cars, or even just the staff of a live Today show, as a listener did last summer. And while Stern has to import porn stars, O&A have little trouble finding young women to play along. "I think it gives women some power," Opie explains. When asked what he means by that, he leans his chair back against the conference-room window and says, "That's a good question. What do I mean...
They are among the most foreshortened landscapes ever painted, and they have a weird if harmless sense of danger to them, as though all those ticky-tack houses and stern, vertical condos and loops of thruway were about to slide down the canvas and rumple up in heaps at the bottom--fulfilling, in miniature, the prophecy that has always been made for the quake zone. But this prospect feels remote. Thiebaud has never tried to read a sense of Expressionist angst into the California coast...
...against the slate-gray Baltic skyline, the Finnfighter has neither the smooth horizontal lines of a conventional freighter nor the bulk of a passenger ferryboat. It combines elements of both, as if a cargo ship had slowly crunched its stern flat against an iceberg. It's the latest in a new line of ships to roll out of Dry Dock No. 1 in the industrial port city of Gdynia. It's also a rare economic success story to emerge from the tatters of communist rule...