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...pioneer of the faux-Letterman gang was Australia's Steve Vizard, a lawyer turned comedian who was host of a late-night show down under for three years, starting in 1990. He had the Letterman repertoire down pat, introduc-ing bits with the same tongue-in-cheek flourish ("I have in my left hand... "). Staff members would even prep American guests on the show by telling them, "Just pretend you're on the Letterman show." Though critics hooted at the thievery, most Aussie viewers didn't get the references--until 1994, when the real Letterman show started airing in Australia...
Even the strong succumbed. Tulane Senior Andrew Hillery and his friend Patrick Vizard, both 22 and experienced duck hunters, went into the Louisiana marshes bundled in thermal underwear and parkas. "They were frozen in water that had splashed into the boat from the winds. They had to be chipped out," says Hugh Lambert, Vizard's brother...
...night before his death Vizard attended a meeting which decried the "climate of violence in Texas...
Reverend Richard Fernandez, co-director of Vietnam Summer, flew to Texas last night after demanding "an open and exhaustive investigation" into the shooting death of Austin peace worker George Vizard...
...Vizard was shot and killed at the Austin grocery store where he worked Monday morning...