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“By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson.”

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Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.

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Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.

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In city after city, newspaper after newspaper has diminished its staff of critics, sometimes to zero. Film and T.V. critics have been dropped and…

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'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' occurred in real time and was a benign and bewitching example of pure television.

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Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted…

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Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of…

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Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host…

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Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined…

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For those who don't like Dave Letterman, there's Jay Leno; and for those who like neither, there's Craig Ferguson; and if you're still feeling…

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The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program…

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'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's celebrated Golden Age.

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The original and very basic 'Law & Order' series has always seemed to me to be 100-percent exposition, with no filler, no pesky nuances…

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I guess I've never really wanted to be anything else. I've never even thought about having another job.

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I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story.

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I never did drama at school. I did it for one term, when it was compulsory, and I hated it. Tennis was the main…

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We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible

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You know, I'm from Baltimore; nobody has anything. When somebody had talent, I was hiring my uncle, my cousin, you know? Getting people that…

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I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'

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I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

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