lazarus@ug.cs.dal.ca (Chuck Turner) (12/13/90)
I was waiting for Letterman, and just happened to be on ABC, when I saw an add for this show called 'Into the Night with Ricky Dees'. Tonight's big attraction was Patrick Stewart. So I watched it. [as an aside, if anyone has ever seen the show, is this guy always this assinine? I mean, I was cringing whenever he said something really stupid, and that was a lot of cringing in just 20 minutes! Also, is this the guy who used to do those adds for Time/Life 60's Greatest Hits on CD adds?] Anyway, he interviewed Patrick Stewart, and Stewart had to do ALL the talking because this guy Dees was just letting dead silence rule! He would ask a question, interrupt the answer, and then stop. Whenever Stewart got a laugh, the host would pick it up and kill whatever the line had been...over and over again! This Dees fellow chose to ask questions about the Borg, without knowing what they were called...the audience quickly corrected him (it looked as if Stewart was going to make him sweat it out). On the PLUS side: Mr. Dees congratulated Patrick on making baldness sexy again (scored big with the audience; Stewart asked Dees if *he* thought it was sexy) Showed clip from Reunion, in which Picard dresses down Worf (excellent choice: Patrick did the scene very well) Stewart read a couple of pages from his one-man show of A Christmas Carol--INCREDIBLE!!! All in all, Stewart turned an awkward interview into a success, and easily scored some points off of Dees. Dees: (talking about make-up) The episode I saw... Stewart: You've only seen ONE episode?!?! Ended off with the terrific reading. It would be interesting to find out what Patrick Stewart thought about the interview, himself. [Note - Mr. Dees is the man responsible for that 70's hit "Disco Duck" - ed.] -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by Jim "The Big Dweeb" Griffith - the official scapegoat for r.a.s.i. Email submissions to trek-info@dweeb.fx.com, and questions to trek-info-request@dweeb.fx.com