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Privately, insiders say that some of the hosts would be ready to go back on the air without writers - focusing more on guests and ad-libbed material - but are leery of the consequences. "My sense is that all the hosts would like to come back, but nobody wants to be first," says one late-night producer. They cannot have been encouraged by the experience of Ellen DeGeneres, who drew sharp criticism from the Writers Guild when she resumed her daytime talk show just one day after the strike began - and this week had to cancel a scheduled taping...
...first day of the strike - and would seem the least likely to reverse course and go back on the air. Yet Leno also seems more closely tied to his scripted material and might be less able to smoothly transition into an unscripted show than hosts who are more natural ad-libbers, like Letterman and O'Brien...
...hosts (who are also members of AFTRA, the union representing performers) are free to perform on their shows, but not to write material for themselves. Of course, the question of whether a wisecrack that Conan or Dave thinks up in advance should be regarded as written material or an ad-lib could be the subject of unending philosophical debate...
...wanted the Knot to deal with the stuff that traditional media companies wouldn't touch. They would never write about a Jewish girl bringing home a Jamaican boyfriend because they couldn't sell to ad agencies with an article like that. But the American wedding was changing. It was interfaith, intercultural, same-sex, plagued with family problems. Our brand said, Your best friends just planned a wedding, and they'll give you the inside scoop. It was an edgy attitude toward a category that had been staid for so long...
That leaves the states to keep pushing Washington. On the same day that the Midwest deal was signed, the green group Environmental Defense announced that it would begin airing a 30-sec. ad featuring three Western governors - Republican Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jon Huntsman Jr. of California and Utah, and Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana - calling on Congress to do something. The message is clear: America's state and local governments have done as much as they can on climate change. "In state after state, we're taking action," the governors say in the $3 million ads, which began...