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Show a ASIMOV The Salt Lake Tribune TV/FEATURES Saturday, February24, 1996 STEREOWA siML meal mesa ey | : Subject: THE NAME GAME , Combine the two clues to revealthe -hame. 02-24 KUTV. Ki: [FRESHMAN LEVEL 7:00 | 7:30 8:00 | for the cable channe's, consult Sunday TribuneTVlistings. 8:30 | an Angel “Lost& Found aangelgon 9:00 po nt te tee | in 10:00 10:30 | 14:00 vie White 1991, Davi A tipson!i Beat Sah eal as City Limits “The Allman a Red Dwarf “The Brothers Band performs songs droid inA pirate a TheLegendary Journeys : “GRADUATE LEVEL | [News a Guild honor the work of their colleagues: ( * Miane r :3.Christmas + onelacking courage. | Answer ‘4A malecat+ ocean trip, ‘Answer 9:30 ovate. Walker ages as a] sty operation. (Part 2of 2)19 a [sateSe : "2. A communist+ clothing fasteners. | [* er, Texas Ranger an ex-cop’s search for missing children. 9 <i. Ball-shaped gem + male deer. Rinewer ‘5: Wealthy + small. 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East exsafely with his diamond king and group - ae had to ruff. South’s last chance as to finesse dummy’s club nine and ae that failed, he was one down. Was tall bad luck? ‘UHF ‘ ‘nbawimeorersanen “The Late Shift’ Gives Short Shrift to Its Sources Inding some luck in clubs; he c have vital cinched the ekesr bareful play. siasion ot frianing Hy earths a ck one, South should have let East ac F o and that’s not Johnny, and no amount of Scene NBCPeacock logos is goi hange that. ; TELEVISION TALK S H OWS SE Ean GATURDAY fin (West's lead was unlikely to be a sreleton* East ae ae a ane ene Sa aws the Peercied aid impressively presented retelling of the series of miscalculations that left NBC with a struggling Jay Lenoasits Of the movie's cast, only ‘Misery’ actress Kathy Bates truly ae well. Bates’ scene-stealing portrayal of former Leno Today: (5) 6 am — chef Paul Prudhomme oe een: Widepedim Jim eer day Journal: dies his lastPalananon dummy's heart ace and ruffs adiamond. A trump ing the rewards of David Letterman's “Late Show.” coarse, rapid-fire, endlessly profane glory — gives “The Late Shift” its best se- NationalPress Club: (CSPAN) 4 pm America and the Courts: (CSPAN) § pm bade the ae a sueNee 1 Rt _With his 1994 book The Late Shift, New York Times seer vile ware gave a page-turning, thoroughly re- “Tonight Show” host hile CBS was reap- manager Helen Kushnick — in all her to dummy’s jack allows South to ruff The book was effective on a variety of y's last diamond and East is levels, especially for fans of the stars in- luo to dummy and covers West's Gard to finish East. East wins cheaply, hut he has no safe return. He must offer a sluff and ruff or concede acluband tainment industry. Carter compellingly grew charactersketchesof the two driven, perfectionist and once-friendly comedians "7 ono as the gladhanding sycophant, Let- s JOHN YOUNGREN feat Seine NORTH AAIT84 $ VA83 terman as the manic-depressive neurotic — and portrayed, aboveall else, NBC’sineptitude when dealing with the talents and insecurities of these two late-night talents. Nowhereis this more apparent than with Daniel Roebuck, who plays Leno with what ooks to be about 17 pounds of prosthetics on his face. Roebuck, younger than Leno, ae oe cooked, Finally, South leads 02-28 @A75 #KI9 EAST a52 ¥QJ1092 : ‘WEST *O3 #764 10642 3653 - 5 eKQ9 #AQ 10 SOUTH 4KQ 10976 ae WKS 3 083 rae e742 . Nulnerable: Neither ae "Bie bidding: eg a Bast 2 South West 223 ae pak ju eotoal *; ee Sening lead: Heart seven aaa y Butif Carter's book was delicious —and commercially successful — his HBO television movie, ‘The Late Shift” (debuting tonightat 9), is not, muchto the chagrin ofall concerned. Letterman,for one, has uttered a series of negative comments about the Scenes in “The Late Shift” in which the character is all but unintelligible, so obsessed is Roebuck with talking through his cotton-stuffed nose while trying to re-create Leno’s patter. i eae better in oe wee eels interviewers, and has parodied Leno’s nasally whine. Therearesome Leno volving Letterman — who is shown feel- TOAD FOR SUNDAY Brewis Jom C/E aati OD ohhh Reopen cata ‘Blight ofthe black sore munity in today’s society at the Ford Hall Forum in Boston.(Part 2 of2) from NBC. All ofthat is faithfully re-created in the movie. Pop-culturaljunkies unfa- 6 am Sunday Journal: (CSPAN) 6 am — Live eae (5) Tam— singer-songwriter Oleta Ad- jnijjar with the process mayget something outof the storyline. Butthatstill doesn’t makeit any easier to get past the two key portrayals in “The BuideMerino: (28 a= ciepotoneco: nomic conditionsin the Philippines; a iribute fo singer Roland Hayes; interview with Dan Acco Seents Pe eee [ate Shift,” thoseof the two distinctively recognizable and familiar men, both of whom beam into millions of American living rooms everynight. Leno and Letterman aye become icons of American culture, and both arestill in their prime, meaning actors like Roebuck and Higgins were behindin the score from thestart. Furthermore, recent events have tinkered with Carter's original thesis — that NBCerredgreatlyin letting Letterman get away, especially when his CBS “Late Show” was winning ratings(it beat Leno's pect cidecaqaiogling bay perenne Pat Buchanan's campaign; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, a supporter of Bob Dole, and . Minit chiet consultantto the ee ioe ea oercuekanonchy4 the, Repubicon Pony. Guest Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, Utah 1996: (4) 9:30 am — Today the Vanocur Soe eee, oe nae This Week with Dovid Brinkley: (4) 10 om — Cass n theRepublican Party? Guests:Mi liam Bennett of Empower America, chair- penes ial “The Late Shift” anis pro. Letterman even bumped the actor ing frustrated and depressed as he is spurned for the “Tonight Show chair, the “Tonight Show” ie 90 straight weeks) and acclaim as the hot show oflate night. With CCacorn GEGIRGChl Zochonmen Dass Bo. “Late Show” (although the fact that the real Dave was enjoyinga particularly flir- to Dave—exceptin the hairline, where the movie's producers seem to have gone for heat many evenings nationally — it’s not necessarily accurate to look back from a sore e Peo lie oe eee tatious banter with prime guest Julia Roberts may have had something to do with that, too). more of a Ted Koppel look. But in scenes with Letterman onstage, doing hisol4 NBC “Late Night” shtick, Higgins fails miser- 1996 perspective and claim the Peacock Network was wrongin its decisions (the movie's producers tryto get around that by 60 Minutes: (2) 6 pm — Howeasy Is it forscom artists to fectmoney fromyour socount use yourcredit cards, in ef steal your Postal Service makes it even easier. Also, for the first time in this country, a son wentto court fo get custody ofhis Alzheimer’s-strickoa to ae 5 e ve mother who “plays” Dave (John Michael Higgins) from a guest appearance on Tuesday’s job he had dreamed of since childhood. Andthe actor bears a passing resemblance Leno's morerecentrise to the frontof the ratings race — the two showsrun in a dead dent campaign; and Terry Jettrey, national campaign manager for Pat Buchanan's hoe previewing “The Late Shift,” Ihad ably, particularly when trying to mimic addinga series of lame epilogue explana- ~t~ BID WITH THE ACES South holds: ze 452 . . QJ1092 little trouble understanding why Letterman or anyoneelse connected to the events that gave Leno Johnny Carson's “Tonight Show”chair in the spring of 1992 would be disgusted. Because,as translated to televi- various Letterman tics and other comedic habits (the phony, overstretched laugh; the tongue-in-cheek showbiz gestures). While “The Late Shift” producers have done an admirable job in re-creating ward- tions, but they fall flat and don’t do the story justice). So, while there's somein-the-know irony in “The Late Shift,” and Carter's script is deftly written, the bottom lineis,the acting Aenmara legumn) cean wron ate: #AQ10 North South ae 29 ta ? = “ANSWER: 7 “s}Ms piqui ay; ut senjeazUeT!@9 sion, Carter's work — the author co-wrote the movie script, which was directed for HBO by“Hill Street Blues” alumnus Betty Thomas — losesits cool sense of detached narrative,its journalistically styled integrity. Instead, the movie plays like some bad, robes, sets and other nuances (although Letterman wore moresubtle sneakers with _his suits, Leno's original “Touight Show” audience could handle more than i3 people and Carson wasconsiderably thinner than the heayily made-up Rich Little, doesn’t do the material justice, and the conclusions, as presented. are out-of-date. _Forthis is story thatisstill unfolding, one in which the two key performers involved arestill working those respectivelate shifts of their own ble-foting crusader becomes both community hero and arson suspect for buming he cibeleeseedbares = ne Geakerieae pe wath nigh Sioa scab cook bs bane epee ‘clubs in the Sat Lake Distict, Mike & Maly:(4) 2:05 am — members of o “Sohjea prq-Bujuado poos MOUS “dwinay-ou sand which the actors rely more on broad carieatheend,the effect is moredistraction: It’s ture than’en genuine technique. {obvious that’s not Dave and that’s not ¥v John Youngren works in advertising in Salt LakeCity. t rs; ake eee led to Carson's retirement, Leno's ascension and Letterman’s ultimate departure does bear some physical resemblance to the “Tonight show” host, but that’s where the similarities end. Not only does Roebuck 0t have Leno's comedictiming,or intelligence, but he seems at a loss to capture hind-the-scenes temper tantrum. 5 Byall accounts, Carter's The Late Shift wasan accurate chronicleof the events that The Late Shift read, at times, more like fiction than fact — particularly when Leno's forgetful, cautious nice-guy nature was being described, or the sometimes-insolent Letterman was throwing another be- i North * quences. yolved and othersinterested in the enter- eee Weekly Radio Adaiees;SAN eK Qs eS pue pmsyreay preo-aay 8 WMA aa Fay.too-long “Saturday NightLive” skit in whoplays Johnnyin a fewkey scenes), in oS eeeeinaadaamenn: women's hockey team; game show host Wink Martindale. + + : |