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Each Monday night, Leno meets with several of his writers at his rather gloomy mock-Tudor house in Beverly Hills to piece together the Tonight show monologue. The sessions begin at 11 and usually run till 4 a.m. On one recent occasion the group that gathered around his kitchen table consisted of Jimmy Brogan, pale, scholarly-looking, wearing a blue baseball cap, a stand-up comedian admired by other comedians; Ron Richards, also a comedian, wry and pleasant; and Chuck Martin, a young stand-up and the only one not on Leno's payroll, sitting in like a rookie playing...
...million subscribers) and Showtime (7.3 million) are due in part to its campaign to educate the public to its full menu of programming, and in part to an aggressive price-cutting strategy. Morning and afternoon shows are dedicated to preschoolers, preteens and teens. Family programming airs from 6 p.m. till 9 p.m., when adult fare takes over...
...politics. The fall 1990 special issue Women: The Road Ahead won four citations: one as a whole, two for design and one for the story "The Lesbians Next Door." Now maybe we've bragged enough -- for the moment. The start we're off to in 1992 -- well, wait till this year...
...late for a key diplomatic meeting is bad form. But when British Defense Secretary Tom King and his Russian counterpart, Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, finally popped into 10 Downing Street last month, their sheepish explanation took bosses John Major and Boris Yeltsin by surprise. Seems they'd been up till all hours sampling a precious case of 1939 Crimean champagne. Major exclaimed at the extravagance, but Yeltsin just seemed to feel left out. Said he: "Good God! I thought all of that vintage had been drunk by Khrushchev...
...stumbled upon the remains of Tin Pan Alley: over there is the old upright piano on which Cy has scored most of his songs, and next to it the thousand- year-old desk, and everywhere theater posters and photographs ("He just keeps putting them up till the wall is full," says his secretary). And through the window pipe the New York City street noises that have inspired the American song ever since Irving Berlin first picked them up in the 1900s on the Lower East Side...