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- PEOPLE, Page 89The Talk-Show Host from Hell
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- By MICHAEL QUINN/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- The final hour of Johnny Carson has barely vanished into
- the ether, and already a major turf war is breaking out among
- the surviving lords of late night -- Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall,
- Dennis Miller, Larry Sanders . . . Larry Sanders? If that name
- is less familiar than the others, it's because Sanders is not
- only new -- he's nonexistent. Think of him as the evil twin of
- genial comedian GARRY SHANDLING, who will portray the ruthless,
- ratings-crazed talk-show host this summer in HBO's The Larry
- Sanders Show. In a typical episode, Sanders becomes so enamored
- of actress Mimi Rogers (playing herself) that he utterly ignores
- his other guest. Shandling, best known for an eponymous cable
- sitcom that reveled in its own fakery, will draw on his
- experience as a veteran of gabfest couches. "Guests were talked
- about like products. Who's hot. Who's not," recalls Shandling.
- "Hosts would say, `Please feel free to come back,' then yell to
- the producer, `Don't ever book them again!'"
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