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- From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu ()
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.letterman
- Subject: Re: New Tonight Show Theme....
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 14:05:47 GMT
- Organization: clearer than blir
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- References: <1992Dec29.132643.9321@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.132643.9321@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> it is written:
- >
- >Did everyone hear the "new" Tonight Show theme? It's much more
- >singable/hummable (one of the early criticisms of the jazz sound of the
- >"original" "new" theme), and features a vocalist...
- >
- >"Stand By Your Man"
- >
- >I'm serious. They did it yesterday during the monologue. I almost fell
- >down laughing, except that I was in bed so it wouldn't have been as far of
- >a fall. :-)
- >
- >Has he been doing stuff like this since the Letterman crises began?
-
- Yes. Middle of last week the phone behind his desk rang. The person on
- the other end was from CBS and was mistaking Leno for Dave. Actually
- it was a pretty poor bit, and seemed to bomb among the live audience,
- but I found it reasonably humorous.
-
- In general, Jay's been far from quiet on the issue. He also has
- complained in interviews that not *once* since he started has any NBC
- exec at any level, patted him on the back and said he was doing a good
- job. Or, "you're are man" or anything like that. He says that if NBC
- screws him, and he acts pretty sure they will, he's gone. Possibly
- even, he says, to CBS to compete against Dave if Dave stays with NBC.
- Weird.
-
- The thing with firing his manager, Kushnik, as executive producer
- already had him on edge (he was close to leaving just over that
- alone). So I'm not sure why people think he *wants* to stay even if
- NBC *doesn't* axe him. I don't think there will be a great Letterman
- vs. Leno ratings battle. No matter how it comes down, I just don't see
- it. NBC is already convinced, too late, that Leno has already lost the
- time slot if it's Leno against Dave. TV is too cynical to play with
- that even for a few weeks. Dave either stays and Leno goes. Or Dave
- leaves and Leno goes. That's how I see it. (Mark my words.)
- Dana Carvey could get the Tonight Show. Maybe the talk with him's
- been that direction all along. All kinds of strange stuff could happen,
- you guys just watch.
-
- But I'm with Dave all the way. I was with him when he was standup. I
- was with him in the morning. I was with him the first night Late Night
- went on, and for the first season when I'd say to people: "Have you
- caught Late Night? It's *funny*." and people didn't know what I was
- talking about.
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