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   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   allbell@ctc.net writes:   
      
   >When Conan started his show, New York was still in the doldrums, it   
   >felt as if we were still in a terrible recession, and it wasn't really   
   >clear what was up with the Soviet Union.   
      
   >Then it seemed as if he came on strong and the Age of Aquarius started   
   >up.   
      
   >Then NBC announced the weird Leno-Conan succession plans and the world   
   >really went to hell.   
      
   >Now Conan is moving to Los Angeles. Maybe there's some kind of scary   
   >omen there . . .   
      
   	Oh, I don't know.  I think the really weird part of the Leno-   
   Conan succession plan (and isn't it a little silly to talk about a   
   succession plan for late night talk shows?) was just the creating of a   
   new 'late night' talk show slot for Leno.  Having Conan move to the   
   Tonight Show, sooner or later, was a lot less weird.   
      
   	It is a bit odd to think that when he leaves Late Night Conan   
   will only be in his third presidential administration as a talk show   
   host, even though the shorter-run Late Night With David Letterman had   
   the same three presidential administrations.   
      
   	But there is some funny symmetry in Conan starting his New York   
   talk show in remarkably unsettled times and with a young yet hopeful   
   presidential administration and then Conan starting in Los Angeles with   
   similar social conditions (although, for my money, these are more   
   worrying times; the collapse of the Soviet Union felt a lot more orderly   
   than the freezing up of the credit markets, maybe because there's more   
   experience with imploding political structures, maybe because I was   
   younger then and didn't know as well what to be scared of).   
      
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