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- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!att-out!cbnewsh!cbnewse!ronaldd
- From: ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis)
- Subject: Re: Letterman
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:49:03 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.164903.29947@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Nov14.232634.28747@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov14.232634.28747@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> mikenorw@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Michael Norwick) writes:
- >It's interesting how when Howard brought up David Letterman's contract
- >negotiations a few weeks ago on Late Night, Dave was treating Howard
- >as though he was some sort scum for even bringing it up.
- >
- >Since that time I've seen several guests bring it up, including Sam
- >Donaldson who read off a list of top five reasons Dave should come to
- >ABC and Connie Chung who was trying to convince him to go over to CBS
- >"It's 7 blocks closer to Connecticut," they joked.
- >
- >It's a given that when Howard came out, Dave's contract was the first
- >thing he started going into. But I don't understand why Dave can have
- >such a sense of humor about it with everyone else but Howard.
- >
- >It seems that Howard always gets in trouble for charting new territory
- >but then others follow his lead and it becomes mainstream.
- >
- mention of letterman's situation with nbc during stern's last appearance
- on late night does not exactly qualify as "charting new territory" since
- the story with letterman and nbc has been making the rounds for some time.
- in fact, it wasn't the first time that stern had made mention of the
- thing on letterman's show...
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