Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 18 September, 2001

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Tuesday

18 September, 2001

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Late Night TV

Dave #1

Dave!

A somber David Letterman dispensed with comedy to pay tribute to his adopted hometown Monday while his guest, Dan Rather, twice broke down in tears.

His voice halting, Letterman opened his ``Late Show'' seated behind his desk with a non-comic, five-minute monologue. The Indianapolis native, who has worked in New York for 20 years, paid tribute to the city's police and firefighters and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

``If you didn't know how to behave, all you had to do at any moment was watch the mayor,'' he said. ``Rudolph Giuliani is the personification of courage.''

Rather, the CBS News anchor, pledged allegiance to President Bush as the president decides what to do next. ``Wherever he wants me to line up, tell me where,'' Rather said.

The veteran anchorman broke down and held hands with Letterman as he tried to explain what it was like at the crash site. Letterman quickly broke for a commercial. Rather again started crying when reciting a verse of ``America the Beautiful'' and explaining how Americans will never hear the lyrics the same way again.

The ``Late Show'' wasn't entirely comedy-free. Guest Regis Philbin tried to allay Letterman's stated doubts that he had come back on the air too soon.

On ABC's ``Politically Incorrect'' on Monday, producers kept one of the talk show's four guest chairs empty in honor of conservative commentator Barbara Olson, who died in one of the ill-fated planes last week.

``Things have changed in America, so we're going to change our show a little bit,'' host Bill Maher said. ``It's going to be a little more serious. I think that's OK. It's OK with you?'' he said, drawing applause from a Los Angeles studio audience.

But Maher added that humor could be appropriate and necessary.

``We've lived through shock, anger, grief, fear. We're going to live through some more of it. But you know what? We need a release, too,'' he said.

Comedy Central has kept ``The Daily Show,'' a satirical show that runs four times weekly at 11 p.m. Eastern, on reruns since the attack. The network decided Monday not to bring the show back live this week, spokesman Tony Fox said.

Comedy Central also removed reruns of its sitcom about Bush, ``That's My Bush!'' from the air and has painstakingly gone through its tapes to make sure it is not showing anything insensitive, Fox said.

The humor magazine The Onion also said it would publish no new material this week, instead putting out a ``rerun issue'' of light articles that were previously released.

NBC's ``Tonight'' show with Jay Leno and ``Late Night'' with Conan O'Brien return to the air Tuesday.

Dave #1

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Late Night TV

Dave #2

dan

Veteran newsman Dan Rather showed the strain of reporting last week's devastating attacks on America as he choked back tears during a guest appearance on Monday on comedian David Letterman's late-night TV show.

Rather, who averaged about 15 hours a day in the CBS News anchor chair during four days of round-the-clock news coverage of last week's tragedy, became visibly choked up while he spoke about the attacks.

As the seasoned newsman paused to regain his composure, Letterman put his hand on Rather's arm, telling him, ``I know you're a great newsman, Dan, but you're also a human being,'' according to an account related by Rather's spokeswoman.

Letterman's only other guest for the show was fellow talk show personality and friend Regis Philbin, who hosts the ABC game show ``Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.''

Letterman, who was on a regularly scheduled production hiatus last week, decided to return Monday in response, in part, to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's appeal for New Yorkers to get back to their routines, executive producer Rob Burnett said.

``Late Show'' producers were especially sensitive about doing anything that would offend a studio audience presumably still shell-shocked by last week's events. The show is taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in midtown Manhattan, about 2-1/2 miles from the devastation downtown.

On NBC, Letterman's chief rival, ``The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,'' planned to return to the airwaves Tuesday with a show that will also be more subdued in tone, according to insiders. Leno's guests his first night back will be Arizona Senator John McCain and the veteran rock trio Crosby, Stills & Nash, who are slated to perform on the show.

NBC is a unit of General Electric Corp. CBS is a unit of Viacom Inc. ABC is a unit of the Walt Disney Co.

Dave #2

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Entertainment News

Alex's Entertainment Report

Alex

Madonna will donate the proceeds of her concerts in Los Angeles, believed to be about $1.4 million (£1 million), to children orphaned in the wake of the disasters that have beset America. Other fashion designers and pop stars have now followed in her path, and the music industry is said to be considering a transatlantic charity concert similar to 1985's Live Aid. Leading fans in a prayer for peace, the 43-year-old said, "Violence begets violence, and I don't know about you, but I want to live a long and happy life, and I want my kids to live a long and happy life. We're not doing these shows because we want people to forget, we're doing this because we want people to remember how precious life is." Among fellow celebrities to make pledges, American designer Tommy Hillfiger has donated $9,800 to the 911 Fund launched by the Duchess of York, and The Backstreet Boys have promised to make donations from future concerts to disaster charities.

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William Baldwin helped to comfort a firefighter's son whose father is still lost among the rubble of the World Trade Center. Seven-year-old Skylar Marcado is praying that his father Steven, a 14-year New York Fire Department veteran, will be found. William turned up at Steven's fire company 40, ladder 35, to offer help as Skylar played with his dad's colleagues as they waited for any news. He was asked to help raise the morale of Skylar and is family instead. Baldwin said, "It is so very sad, look at the little guy. " The company is missing 11 fire fighters. Baldwin is planning to help clear the building debris that have scarred downtown Manhattan forever later in the week.

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William Daniels, president of Screen Actors Guild, announced Thursday that the SAG Foundation is donating $50,000 to New York state to assist in disaster relief. "This is one of the first sizable donations to be received from a union," Daniels said in a letter to members. Daniels also noted that some SAG members were passengers aboard the hijacked planes and added, "We need to know the names of members who lost their lives, were injured, or lost family members [in the New York attack] to assess the impact upon our membership in order to help us determine an appropriate response."

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Julie Andrews, Barbara Hershey, Anthony Lapaglia and Mira Sorvino are among the celebrities who have informed the San Sebastian International Film Festival in Spain that they are canceling their planned trips to the festival. Andrews, who was scheduled to receive the Donostia Award, sent a message to the festival through a spokesperson saying that "while the entire world is in mourning it would be an expression of insensibility on her part to participate in a festive act."

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A group of pop stars led by Michael Jackson plan to record a new song to raise $50 million for survivors and families of victims in Tuesday's terror attack. Jackson, Destiny's Child and Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys all plan to record a new song, titled ``What More Can I Give,'' that Jackson will produce personally, according to a statement on Sunday. Other singers committed to the effort include pop sensation Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake of 'N Sync and Mya.


~~ Alex

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Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

Class Of 2001

Ramones
Joey, Marky, C. J., & Johnny

Punk innovators the Ramones and the Sex Pistols lead the ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2001.

The list, released Monday, also includes such pioneering acts as new-wave funkmeisters Talking Heads, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, easy-rocking singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, as well as notable holdovers like Patti Smith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC and, yes, Black Sabbath.

Others up for enshrinement include super-cool soul man Isaac Hayes ("Shaft"), '50s girl group the Chantels ("Maybe"), doo-woppers the Dells ("Stay in My Corner," "Oh, What a Night") and "5" Royales ("Baby Don't Do It" and "Help Me Somebody"), melodramatic '60s popster Gene Pitney ("Town Without Pity," "Only Love Can Break a Heart") and influential country-rocker Gram Parsons, who was a member of both the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Smith, Lynyrd Skynyrd, AC/DC and Brenda Lee were also-rans last year who are up again this year.

Among the eligible acts failing to make the ballot: Alice Cooper, KISS, Lou Reed, Bob Seger and Iggy Pop's Stooges.

Last year's crop of inductees included Michael Jackson and Paul Simon (for their solo work), Steely Dan, Ritchie Valens, Aerosmith, Queen and Solomon Burke.

R&R Hall Of Fame

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In The News

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``I was the Britney Spears of my time.''

-- TONY BENNETT, performing his hits at a Los Angeles concert Saturday.


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In The News

Kurt Vonnegut


Page Six is reporting......"One of America's greatest living writers is expressing his respect and esteem for the brave men and women who risk their lives toiling in the smoking ruins of the World Trade Center.

When Page Six asked "Breakfast of Champions" author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. to comment on the tragedy, he reflected, "The most stirring symbol of man's humanity toward man that I can think of is a fire truck."

Anyone familiar with Vonnegut will understand just how deep that sentiment runs for the author. As a prisoner of war in WWII, Vonnegut witnessed the firebombing of Dresden, Germany, in which a single night's raid left at least 135,000 dead, mostly civilian.

The apocalyptic scene so affected Vonnegut that he depicted it again and again throughout his career in novels such as "Slaughterhouse Five" and "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater." In "Rosewater" the protagonist is so tortured over unwittingly killing a German firefighter during the war that upon his return home, he is compelled to fund volunteer fire departments all over the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

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Book News

A Book She Is Not Reading


Ellen DeGeneres says she won't read her former girlfriend Anne Heche's book, ``Call Me Crazy,'' because she's not interested in Heche's interpretation of their life together.

``I don't really care,'' DeGeneres told the Los Angeles Times in Sunday's newspaper. ``Her truth is her truth. I would also like to get to the point that I'm not referenced in everything she does.''

``What I don't mind saying is, it was the first time I ever had my heart broken,'' DeGeneres said. ``I'd always been the one to leave relationships ... and it was the one time I really believed this is forever.''

Even though the character she plays also is a lesbian, that part of the story line will be subdued since the show is scheduled to air at 8 p.m. ET on Fridays.

Ellen DeGeneres

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TV News

Telethon Friday Night?


At a time when the major networks usually would rather eat sheep eyeballs than band together with their opposition, CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox are reportedly planning to air an unprecedented industrywide telethon Friday night to raise money for relief and recovery efforts following last week's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.

There's still no official word that the telethon is happening, but publicists for both Jim Carrey and George Clooney confirmed to E! Online Monday that the actors will take part in the benefit.

After networks postponed their premiere-week schedules in the wake of attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the plane crash Pennsylvania, industry sources told the Associated Press Monday that plans were forming for a two-hour prime-time telethon, with the goal being to air it simultaneously on as many broadcast and cable networks as possible.

The telethon will likely include a host of other big-name celebs (stars rumored to be participating Monday included Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Clint Eastwood and Billy Joel, among others), but their attendance hasn't been confirmed.

Telethon?

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Radio News

Ira Glass On Howard Stern


At present, Ira Glass' life is indeed big and open and interesting and exciting. It has been for some time.

In early July, none other than Time magazine, grandpappy of prestigious glossies, named him America's Best Radio Host. Chicago-born playwright David Mamet penned the essay praising Glass' talents.

"I have to say, when this Time magazine thing came out naming me radio host of the year, like the main thought I had was, I'm not America's best radio host. Like, Howard Stern is, clearly. Like, there's no question. I think we do a very nice show, a really, really good show. But just as a straight-up radio host, I feel like he's so far ahead of me. It's a beautifully formatted show, like the Jack Benny Show, where there's a set of characters who you come to know. And then, over the course of five hours, he just creates one situation after another for them to react to. This American Life is like a movie. There are characters and you get involved with a conflict and you just stick around to find out what happens. It's a much different approach to radio than what Howard's doing, which is way more suited to being live."

Ira Glass

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First Person Diary

Ray Berry


Ray has (temporarily, I hope) suspended 'Bush-Toons'. In its place, he has put his daily diary of life in Manhattan since Tuesday.

Ray has great observational abilities, a way with words, and has still been able to keep his sense of humor.

To visit & read, www.bush-toons.com

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Michael Dare

WWW.WAR


As the nation prepares for a long hard war, the Internet has risen to the occasion with important alternatives to the copycat coverage of the major news organizations rallying behind the party line. While the TV showed a world rallying behind George W. Bush, the Internet told a different story. The TV showed patriotism expressed as trust in our country's values and our leadership. The Internet showed patriotism expressed as trust in our country's values despite our leadership.

Go surfing or open your e-mail and you'll certainly find pictures of the World Trade Center rebuilt even taller than before, inevitably leading to the picture of five new World Trade Centers shaped like a human hand with the middle finger raised. The middle finger actually figured quite prominently in the Internet reaction to the terrorist attack, with a picture of the Statue of Liberty giving the finger, saying "We're coming to get you, motherfuckers," spreading like a virus. War fervor was countered by historians, and anyone who thinks there are going to be any easy answers better get themselves over to "What does Osama bin Laden Want?" at Slate.

There are supposedly un-doctored pictures of the devil hidden in the smoke of the collapsing tower, and numerous comparisons between this war and the war on drugs, both with no clearcut end. One of the most popular pages is at clkober.com and for good reason. It shows more than 50 pictures of the global reaction to the tragedy, taking forever to download but well worth it. Type it into your browser, then leave the room and come back in 10 minutes to see an overwhelming display of emotional support from unlikely places. Thousands of flowers. Thousands of candles. Thousands of people crying.

Go to chat rooms and you find people who simply do not believe what they are being told by the mass media, spreading rumors that can be shot down as easily as, well, let's forget that metaphor. One of the most persistent rumors was that the plane that went down in Pennsylvania was actually shot down to prevent it from reaching its destination. It's become pretty clear the plane was somehow diverted from its mission by the passengers.

TV reported that Air Force One was a target of the attacks, a dubious proposition that seemed to be meant only to rally sympathy for the president. How exactly were they going to target another airplane? Were they going to chase it in the air? Were they that skilled? Since the fourth plane was on it's way to Camp David when it crashed, exactly where is the phantom 5th plane that was targeting Air Force One? Nobody on TV bothered to ask questions, they just reported it as fact.

I picked a random quote floating around, "Our very first priority has to be incoming missiles," supposedly said by an Oklahoma Senator, and checked the actual congressional record. The only Oklahoma Senator to have made a speech about missile defense was Nickles, and what he actually said was "The number one priority of the Federal Government should be the protection of our people, the protection of our freedom. We need to have the capability to destroy incoming missiles from whatever source." Obviously a much more reasonable statement than the one attributed to him. So much for the supposed end of non- partisan politics. Who else is being misquoted and why?

For some reason an e-mail is circulating claiming Nostradamus said "The third big war will begin when the big city is burning." Why bother making up nonsense when what Nostradamus ACTUALLY said is scary enough… "When those of the Northern Pole are united together, In the East will be great fear and dread. One day the two great leaders will be friends." Some think they already are.

Nostradamus predicted the coming of Mabus, the anti-Christ, a prediction that entered the realm of the bizarre when Ray Mabus was named the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia in 1996. He resigned months later and was last seen at a McDonalds in Vegas with Elvis.

Since Nostradamus predicted Hitler as Hister, and since Mabus doesn't sound at all like bin Laden, there are those in the psychic world trying to turn Mr. Bush into Mabus. Nostradamus followers aren't the only ones convinced George W. Bush is the anti-Christ. Type "George W. Bush" and "anti-Christ" into Google and get 1,020 listings. Type in "impeach George W. Bush" and get a mere 117. Using arithmetic from hell, that leaves 903 who think Bush is the anti-Christ but SHOULDN'T be impeached.

More persuasive arguments are being made about Bush, arguments backed by fact that are harder to ignore. Earlier this year, he was presented the Hart-Rudman Commission, a three year, multi-million dollar, world-wide study warning him precisely about terrorist acts like this and offering several viable preventative measures. Bush not only shelved it, possibly because it was commissioned by his predecessor, but he then went ahead and gave $43 million to the Taliban in May. (verifiable at Here, And Here, And Here, Too, and thousands of other news sources on the web) The very next day, the Taliban's religious police — The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice — raided a hospital in Kabul, claiming that male and female personnel were "mixing" illegally.

This isn't like those rumors that surfaced years later about Roosevelt having been warned about Pearl Harbor. It's not some wacko conspiracy theory. These are verifiable facts reported by major papers when they happened, facts that are now being left out of the major media coverage entirely.

In a case of historical amnesia worthy of George Orwell, the media has failed to ask the following questions floating all over the Net.

What happened to the $43 million? Is it just a coincidence that the Taliban helped commit the heinous act of 9/11 just months after the U.S. gave them the check? Did any of that money go to bin Laden? Are we due some sort of accounting from the Taliban concerning where the money was spent, or did we just hand it to them saying taa-taa, have a nice day? If we discovered that Bill Gates gave the Taliban $43 million just a couple months ago, wouldn't he be one of our prime suspects for collaborating with the enemy? Why is George W. Bush getting a free ride for this heinous act? Isn't supporting the enemy an impeachable offense? Can he claim he didn't know they were the enemy? Only if he's an idiot. After the Taliban gave sanctuary to bin Laden, after they went on a rampage destroying priceless national relics, after they arrested Red Cross workers for carrying bibles, who didn't know they were the enemy?

These legitimate questions inevitably lead to the wacko conspiracy question. Were we paying terrorists to commit some minor act, thinking it would just be a skirmish where Bush could show a little of his might like his daddy did, only to have the deal backfire when the people he was dealing with went behind his back and pulled off something bigger than his brains could imagine?

If someone else were leading the charge, I'd be behind them 100% because I am 100% behind America on this thing. I would have rallied behind Roosevelt. Hell, I would have rallied behind Nixon if something like this had happened, and I hated his guts. Funny, but I've never heard of any multi-million dollar checks made out from Roosevelt to Japan just before Pearl Harbor or from Nixon to Hanoi just before the Tet Offensive.

Hitler's army wanted to take over the world. We beat them because, among other things, they wanted to live.

Hussein's army wanted to take over Kuwait. We beat them because, among other things, they wanted to live.

But bin Laden's army doesn't want to live. Their goal, as they couldn't have made clearer, is to die while taking as many infidels with them as possible.

How do you defeat someone who wants to die, whose ultimate goal is martyrdom? If you kill them, they win. You're giving them what they want. The only way to win is to deny them the pleasure, to keep them alive, in a cage, on display as the ultimate freaks of nature.

Don't underestimate the brains of bin Laden. He is a chess player. He's working out his moves several steps ahead. The WTC was only one move, one guaranteed to elicit a certain response. He knows what that response is going to be, and everyone saying he has no idea about the wrath of America is fooling themselves. He WANTS the response we're giving him because he's got something else up his sleeve.

So I ask you, what would you do if your goal was to die while taking as many infidels with you as possible? You'd commit a terrorist act in their country. You'd let them know where you were, knowing they would send a massive force to get you. You would wait until the most possible foreign soldiers were on your soil, then you'd kill the entire country with some weapon of mass destruction.

It's possible we're walking into a trap. It's possible everyone going to Afghanistan is going to die.

But bin Laden will escape. Everyone's making a big deal of this alliance with Pakistan, forgetting that Afghanistan also shares a border with China, who have a long history of harboring people like bin Laden. If China hides bin Laden, Bush has de facto declared war against them, and we're looking at the potential end of the world.

If the flag stands for freedom, the single most important principle on earth, if it stands for a society that lets me stand on my little pulpit and blab my mouth off, then a flag cannot be built large enough for me to fly. But if it stands for the mighty ship of our beloved state no matter who's behind the wheel, well, that's just stupid.

We've entered a time when it will be difficult to display patriotism as anything other than faith in our leaders rather than faith in our principles. We didn't win WW2 because we were stronger, we won it because we were smarter. If our leadership isn't smart, we won't win.

One way to win is to prove our moral superiority by bringing the perpetrators to trial instead of killing them. The Taliban are insane no matter how you define the word. We don't kill the insane. If they're dangerous, we incapacitate them, we incarcerate them, but we don't kill them. If we want to show the world we're better than our enemy, that we don't kill randomly, that we didn't deserve this treatment, then we've got to imagine a response where nobody gets killed. Is it such a far-fetched goal to capture them rather than assassinate them? They number in the hundreds, not the thousands. They can be surgically removed, alive, and tried before the world. Like NATO said, this wasn't just an attack on the U.S., it was an attack on the world, on the very premise of freedom itself. The Taliban doesn't want anyone to be free. They want us all to be like them. Ain't gonna happen. We're quite rightly going to route them out. Please, let's put them on trial and show the world what happens to those who commit crimes against the world.

The conspiracy theorists think Bush wants bin Laden and the Taliban dead because he doesn't want them to expose the fact it was a deal gone bad. He's got a chance to prove them wrong.


Michael Dare

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In Memory

Samuel Z. Arkoff


Samuel Z. Arkoff, a maverick Hollywood producer who churned out more than 500 low-budget -- and often hugely profitable -- cult movies, died of natural causes on Sunday, his son Louis said. He was 83.

Arkoff, who said movies were no good unless they titillated audiences, tapped into the youth culture long before the major studios took notice of the lucrative demographic.

Among his best-known releases were the Michael Caine thriller ``Dressed To Kill,'' ``The Amityville Horror,'' ``I Was a Teen-Age Werewolf'' and the ``Beach Blanket'' series starring teen idol Frankie Avalon and ``Mickey Mouse Club'' belle Annette Funicello.

With the late Jim Nicholson, Arkoff co-founded American International Pictures in 1954 and hit pay dirt that year by distributing ``The Fast and the Furious,'' a gritty action film directed by future B-movie king Roger Corman. The $60,000 film grossed $250,000.

Perhaps more important than most of the films themselves, AIP provided early springboards for the likes of directors Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, Woody Allen, Ivan Reitman and Brian De Palma and actors Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Peter Fonda and Melanie Griffith.

In addition to his son, Louis, Arkoff is survived by a daughter, Donna Arkoff, who is married to producer Joe Roth. Arkoff died at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California. Funeral services are set for Thursday.

Samuel Z. Arkoff

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In Memory

Fred De Cordova

Fred De Cordova

Fred De Cordova, who produced ``The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' for 22 years and called it ``the best job in television,'' has died. He was 90.

A suave, elegant man who remained strikingly handsome in his 80s, De Cordova proved the perfect overseer for Carson's brand of entertainment. De Cordova could make split-second decisions to keep the show moving. He kept a close eye on the broadcast from his station offstage, where he was often seen on camera answering Carson's questions or serving as the butt of a joke.

He started his show business career in the theater, then came to Hollywood in 1942 as a dialogue director at Warner Bros. He moved up to director in 1945, but most of his films involved medium-size budgets and lesser stars.

His 1951 comedy ``Bedtime for Bonzo,'' with Ronald Reagan as a college professor who experiments with raising a chimpanzee, became a target for satirists when Reagan turned to politics.

He began as producer of ``The Tonight Show'' in 1970, eight years after Carson became the show's star, and became executive producer in 1984. After Carson retired in 1992, De Cordova remained as executive consultant for Jay Leno.

Over the years De Cordova and his wife, Janet, remained highly popular in Hollywood society. Expectably, he had little derogatory to say in his autobiography about any of the stars he worked with, and certainly not Carson.

Fred De Cordova

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