Thursday, December 28, 2006

THE READERS' POST for Thursday, December 28: Jay says he'll "take ambition over genius any day of the week"--but you don't have to talk about that

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Over the years, the press has generally favored Letterman, critically anointing him as the heir to Johnny Carson. Leno, meanwhile, has taken a more populist approach, telling TV Guide that he takes "a certain perverse pleasure" in knowing he works more weeks a year than Letterman, makes less money and turns out a more profitable show. "I'll take ambition over genius any day of the week," he said.
[from an L.A. Times piece by Brian Lowry]
In fairness, this maybe makes Leno sound worse than it should. He's actually responding to persistent reports that the ratings gap between him and his onetime friend gnaws at Letterman:

"You'd think after all this time it would be, 'Oh, well, he's successful, I'm successful, everybody is rich beyond their wildest dreams.' I don't know why there has to be such animosity. It just seems odd to me," Leno told TV Guide.


Anyway, this space is for you to talk--to us or among yourselves--about whatever is on your mind. READERS' POST Roundup on Saturday. (New POST on Sunday?)

2 Comments:

At 11:38 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just watched a very interesting forum on C-SPAN (best channel on t.v.) It was hosted by the Nixon Center and had an excellent panel. It you get a chance to see it in re-run do so.

David Rivkin was there. It was fun watching him squirm under the blistering criticism for the failed policies of this administration.

 
At 6:59 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I had no inkling that he was LOOKING for such a thing.

 

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