Letterman Apologizes to His Wife
After half-heartedly joking about his extortion scandal in his opening monologue last night, David Letterman apologized to his wife, his staff...and Sarah Palin.
Apology Not Accepted
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Letterman has apologized, Palin has accepted, but for a band of right-wing fanatics outside the Late Show studio, the battle has just begun. Lloyd Grove tells them the war is over.
Talk Show Trainwrecks 2
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Right after Joaquin Phoenix's meltdown on the Late Show with David Letterman, we posted seven of our favorite other talk-show trainwrecks. You told us we'd missed a few and we agree: So here are seven more, featuring everything from a classic melee on Geraldo to a wasted literary icon to a repentant star of Seinfeld. Let the meltdowns begin...
Seven Great Talk-Show Trainwrecks
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Joaquin Phoenix wasn't the first star to lose it in late night-Farrah Fawcett, Andy Kaufman, Andy Dick and even Norman Mailer have all melted down before him. View some of the all-time best couch-tastrophes.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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