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- VIEW POINTS, Page 63TELEVISIONSon Burn
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- By Richard Corliss
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- Temperature's rising on late night TV, and the young
- fellow with the thermometer -- oh, it's a microphone -- is Ron
- Reagan, former ballet dancer, occasional journalist and
- permanent son of the 40th President of the U.S. Gipperphiles
- will tune in to THE RON REAGAN SHOW to see the host twit Kitty
- Kelley, "who we know applies only the highest journalistic
- standards to her work." Gipperphobes will be pleased to hear Ron
- bad-mouth the policies of the Reagan Administration. He treads
- the tightrope in Jimmy Stewart style, his aw-shucks ingenuity
- tempered with wry skepticism. The kid needs both in this R-rated
- melange of volatile guests (discussing steroids, Fundamentalism,
- rap music, gay rage) and a rowdy, het-up audience. The result
- is part encounter group, part bear baiting. And Ron seems
- willing to play, not omniscient emcee, but human sacrifice. "I
- used to be able to control this show," he quipped after both he
- and his wife had been called gay, "but no more." It makes for
- gruesome spectacle and, so far, nifty TV.
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