Nell Scovell's Vanity Fair piece about working for Letterman hit me in the gut. For one, it teaches us just how thoroughly female-free the world of TV writing remains. For another, it reminded me of news magazines, my former and famously male-centric world. And I thought: come on. It's two-thousand-freaking-nine. We're still [...]

Nell Scovell, formerly of Late Night with David Letterman, offers up on VanityFair.com a great sketch of what it was like to work for Dave back in 1990 -- and why she left the opportunity of a lifetime.

Without naming names or digging up decades-old dirt, let’s address the [...]

Writing in The Daily Beast, Rebecca Dana contends that by avoiding the use of euphemisms in his announcement of his sexual affairs, David Letterman ``has perfected the art of disclosure.''

When David Letterman confessed last week to having had sex with women who work on his show, [...]

Sistagirl 1: Well, now we know. Ms Thang 2: Know what? Sistagirl 1: Why we were working in vain. Ms Thang 2: Oh, you mean all those late nights hunched over monologues? Sistagirl1: And all those lunches at our desks, swallowing our pride between gulps of coffee. Ms Thang2: Bad, burnt coffee at that... Sistagirl1: ...While [...]

It took a humiliating public scandal, but the student has, at long last, surpassed his teacher. It's long been known that Johnny Carson viewed Dave Letterman as the rightful heir to his Tonight Show throne. The two were tight in a way that Leno and Carson never were, and it showed [...]

David Letterman is treading a fine line. And while it's fascinating to watch, it's also uncomfortable. Apologies are one thing, jokes are another. Yes, Letterman apologized on the air last night for the publicity wringer he's put his staff through. And yes, he acknowledged that the affairs with staffers that lead [...]

David Letterman faced his public again last night wearing a rueful face. He began: “I got into my car this morning, and even the navigation lady wasn’t speaking to me.” And he did what I think he ought to have done in the beginning: apologize to his wife. Here it is: Okay, [...]

I guess it turns out that being on late night TV doesn't mean never having to say you're sorry. According to BreakingNewsOnline, funny man David Letterman will apologize to his wife and staffers during the taping of this evening's Late Show on CBS. Apologize for what, though remains unclear. Adultery? Creating [...]

Put aside the much-hyped shows on Oprah Winfrey, and the celestial ranking on bestseller lists, and what’s most noticeable about Mackenzie Phillips’ kiss-and-tell memoir, “High on Arrival,” is the predatory narcissism that was everywhere in her young life. Phillips’ out-of-control father, John, was just one of her surreal impediments. There [...]