Word: letterman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Decades ago, Alfred Hitchcock said actors were cattle. Today celebrities are meat: junk food for tabloid headlines, canapes for cocktail-party surmise, fodder for Leno and Letterman raillery. Are the charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story...
...know, I think they've been distributed very evenly over the last 50 years, or unevenly I should say. I don't know--maybe in 1995 when I got so much attention for the show, Dr. Katz, but it could have been my debut on the Letterman show in 1985--that was very exciting. But Dr. Katz is doing much better than Jonathan Katz ever did in terms of fame...
...Yeah, when I was on the Letterman show and I went out the next day, I would stare at people probably a little too long giving them the opportunity to recognize me. I know what you're thinking..."Yes, you did see me on television last night...I was funny, yeah." But Dr. Katz is well known in many countries around the world...
...attitudes in pop culture, were to foster some repressive legislation. (Imagine the headlines: HIP-HOP AND HEAVY METAL BANNED! SOUTH PARK CREATORS IMPRISONED!) But the revolutionists who would bring these skeptical tribes together would have to be able to combine political activism with an irony as thick as David Letterman's. They would have to avoid simplistic sloganeering and embrace the creative use of media and technology. Finally, they would have to appeal to their tribalized constituent elements...
DIED. MARGARET MARY RAY, 46, deranged fan who became a punch line after repeatedly breaking into David Letterman's home; of suicide; in Colorado. Ray had been jailed and institutionalized over the years for stalking Letterman...