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Published Letters: 4
of their own accord?
I am loath to slash Heather's sad pre-review of Leno's show.
Is there one funny line in her takedown of Leno? It seems that she never watched Johnny Carson -- does she think Carson was some urbane, ironic, counter-culture hero? Carnac? Art Fern? Maybe in Heather's universe; not mine.
Funny doesn't lie. You laugh or you don't. Leno's monologue, headlines and all-stars make me laugh. Letterman and Conan - a little less so. Heather -- not at all.
I believe the name of Viktor Frankl's psychoanalytic classic is "Man's Search for Meaning" rather than "Man's Quest for Meaning."
Nice article but I have to quibble over one point. I can't speak about the "record collections of [your] white friends" but AM radio was integrated by black artists long before Michael Jackson came along. I too am Jackson's age and remember well -- before the Jackson 5 came along - the many black Motown (and Atlantic and Chess) artists who were all over AM radio in the 1960's/early '70s right alongside white artists. It was later when radio (FM at that point), unlike many other aspects of life, became more segregated. Give Jackson credit for breaking the race barrier at MTV perhaps, but he most certainly did not integrate AM radio.
