David Letterman & Bette Davis

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Filmed about 6 months before Ms. Davis' death.
Sometime you forget just how Dave's been at it - it's hard to believe these two crossed paths on TV:

[marble falls]

1. His afternoon on ABC in the early 80's was the bext thing ever on TV.

[mucifer]

2. Yeah, that show was great. But, he did learn a lot from Steve Allen.

He should have gotten Johnny's spot. But, I don't know that the older audience would have liked his humor the way they did with Leno. Now we are getting to be the older audience and they are hiring younger people.

[marble falls]

3. I grew up watching Allen and Paar, I think Allen's show was more of a houseparty or club show...

but no doubt Stevorino's best and youngest fan was me. Paar was more of the first adults having good conversation that I was welcomed to listen to. Carson I was watching from his game show,"Who Do You Trust?" Leno really is a distant 4th place.

[maddiemom]

4. Bette Davis's daughter, then known as B.D. Merrill, attended the Grier School in central

Pennsylvania. It was a horse related school and had at least one yearly show. I never competed against B.D. myself, but remember seeing her show . She didn't show elsewhere that I knew of. Certainly Bette was never hanging on the rail as a "horse show mom," Everyone was aware of who her daughter was, of course.