From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   	Jim Ellwanger mentioned this but it's probably worth repeating   
   in my campaign to turn what had been a happy little newsgroup into my   
   private domain: the guest on -- Thursday? -- night who was both a   
   cheerleader and a probation officer was a curious choice, and really a   
   good deal more interesting than having whoever the supporting players   
   for ``Jack Nicholson And Morgan Freeman Earn A Paycheck'' come on to   
   explain how amazingly fantastic an experience it is working with them.   
      
   	Obviously the digging into oddball guests is a side effect of   
   the normal celebrities being unavailable or harder to coax into being   
   on the show for the strike.  But -- as with the introduction segments --   
   I hope the strike does serve as a reminder to Conan and evidence for   
   NBC that they can do really well when they reach outside the roster of   
   guests who'd normally have any chance of appearing on Late Night.   
      
   	The old-time bartender is another example of that, a guest who   
   might possibly make it onto the show under normal circumstances, but   
   who was interesting and had something to pay attention to.  Stuff to   
   pay attention to is better, artistically, for the show than celebrity   
   status is.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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