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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1987
Page
10
NBC writers Kathleen Ankers and Jeremy Conway design large scale gags for Late Night with David Letterman. They create giant drumsticks, meat maps, a gushing derrick on Jerry Lewis and a Velcro suit that sticks Letterman to a wall. They often work late after quick taping prep.
The article details the making of the NBC Late Night spectacle starring David Letterman including the yogurt dip and giant sponge suit. It notes designers Ankers Conway O'Donnell testing and adjusting costumes and props while describing mishaps and backstage humor with hamsters and magnets.
Prime time features Reagan delivering the State of the Union in a joint session with Congress in Washington with a Democratic response. Frontline launches a season on the space shuttle program with Judy Woodruff, James Reston Jr., and ABC's Peter Jennings. HBO airs Murphy's Romance at 10:15 PM starring Sally Field and James Garner as a small town druggist and a divorcee mother.
Nancy Reagan hosts Generation at Risk with Sam Waterston to broaden the anti-drug focus to school dropouts teen pregnancy and youth suicide. The program cites statistics such as one in four teens becoming problem drinkers in high school.
The piece notes Garry Shandling on NBC Tonight and its Showtime series It s Garry Shandling s Show. It lists outreach to viewers at Showtime New York address and questions the PTV outreach alliance program for its treatment of teen issues and proposed additions like smoking.
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