David Letterman: This Thinking Person’s Talk Show Host
When I was a younger man I regularly watched Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show. Then, one day, a new show came on after Carson…Late Night with David Letterman. I watched it a few times…it was sort of weird, and the host was a gap-toothed former weatherman from Indiana with a very skewed, strange sense of humor, an acerbic manner, and a very low tolerance for self-important celebrities and BS, which was a very new (and seemingly counter-intuitive) concept for a talk show host.
He did strange things, like drop stuff off of buildings, run over stuff with steamrollers, and he put on a Velcro suit (and used a trampoline to launch himself up and stick to a wall), a suit of suet (and went into an enclosure and let birds feed off of him), and a suit of Alka Seltzer (and was lowered into a tank of water). He did
2001:A Space Odyssey and the iPad (or is it tamPod?)
Can We Stop Airline Terrorism?
Sherlock Holmes (***)
Paranormal Activity (***)
The Ruling Class (****)
Zombieland (***½)
The Informant! (***½)
Moon (***½)
Extract (***)
Asian Cajun Bar and Grill (***½)
Review of the BT Longhorn Saloon & Steakhouse (***½)
Wonderful Weagle
A Day in the Life of a Typical American, or how I learned to stop worrying and not be hypocritical about
District 9 (***½)
Michael Vick is Back in the NFL
