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   From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   allbell@ctc.net writes:   
      
   >On Dec 29, 4:14=A0pm, nebu...@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:   
      
   >> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 But there is some funny symmetry in Conan starting his Ne=   
   >w 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). =A0   
      
   >The bottom line: I hope Conan puts his money in a lot of wildly   
   >different pots. Don't let one Bernie Madoff kind of guy put all the   
   >money in one bad pot.   
      
   	Oh, yes, I'd hope so.  But then based on the glimpses we get   
   of Conan's True Personality I get the vibe that he's the kind of   
   investor who likes a stable yet unexciting return over something   
   faster but riskier.  He just feels like that sort of long-term,   
   bubble-averse guy.  Of course in his case it helps he's had a   
   multimillion-dollar salary for, what this entire decade, and is going   
   on to a kerspillion dollars a year come The Tonight Show.  Even if he   
   screwed up in an enormous way he's got time and resources to rebuild.   
      
   	His staff (creative and technical), well, that's probably the   
   whole universe of personality types and investments, so it's hard not   
   to suppose there are some hurting or very worried people there.  But   
   the creative people are probably secure in working for Conan once he   
   moves to Los Angeles, and I suppose the technical people are working   
   for That New Guy once he takes over Late Night, so they're as   
   well-supported as anyone working for NBC can be.  Maybe more so; it's   
   possible that Jimmy Fallon may flop catastrophically, but it's nearly   
   impossible that Late Night would be cancelled, just re-cast, and the   
   staff tied to Studio 6-A will still be needed.  They're not like the   
   people who produce New Knight Rider.   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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