Category: Letterman

Clinton Promotes Book on ‘Late Show’
NEW YORK – Bill Clinton came to sell his book on “Late Show with David Letterman” Tuesday night but left a copy as a gift for Letterman’s son.
Reading aloud the inscription in his hefty 957-page memoir, the former president wished Harry Letterman (born to Dave and his girlfriend, Regina Lasko, Nov. 3) a happy 9-month birthday.
“With luck,” Clinton went on, “you will finish this by your 21st birthday. Meanwhile, carry it around and build more muscles than your dad has.”
Looking natty in a blue suit and pink tie, Clinton shared the bill with only musical guest Natalie Merchant. During his extended interview, he quickly moved from promoting “My Life” (which since its June 22 release has sold more than 1.5 million copies) to politics and global affairs.
Still, he managed to do a little more selling, putting in a few good words for Sen. John Kerry, the newly anointed Democratic presidential candidate.
“Of all the people I dealt with in Congress,” Clinton said in part, “he cared the most about trying to find programs that would keep young, inner-city minority kids out of trouble and out of jail and in school.
“There were no votes in this for John Kerry … He just did it cause he thought it was right.”
When asked whether the economy or the war in Iraq would be the deciding issue in the presidential election, Clinton replied, “I think the security question is a threshold question.
“I believe if the voters can get it fixed in their mind that they can trust Sen. Kerry to fight the war against terror and keep us safe at home, that it’s more likely than not he will win, because after 9-11 the Bush administration went way to the right on domestic policy.”
Mostly serious while interviewing Clinton, Letterman posed a mischievous question as their session neared an end.
“Tell me what you know about Sandy Berger sticking documents in his pants and walking out of the National Archives,” Letterman asked.
Clinton chuckled, then praised his former national security adviser, who is facing allegations of mishandling highly classified terrorism documents.
“Anybody that ever saw Sandy Berger’s office at the White House would not be surprised that he gets the papers mixed up or takes the wrong ones away,” Clinton grinned. “He’s got a well-organized mind and a disorganized desk.”
Clinton last appeared on Letterman’s CBS late-night show on Sept. 11, 2002, the first anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks. He is now mulling an offer from NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” to be a guest host in the coming season, according to anonymous sources quoted by TV Guide Online. A decision is expected this week.

Hilton Finally Visits ‘The Late Show’
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) – With the second season of “The Simple Life” about to kick off, Paris Hilton is at last getting around to chatting with David Letterman.
The hotel heiress and star of the FOX series is scheduled to visit Letterman’s “Late Show” Monday (June 14).
“They have a lot in common,” “Late Show” an executive producer notes of Hilton and Letterman. “She’s the heir to the Hilton Hotel fortune, and he’s the heir to the Stadium Motor Lodge fortune.”
Hilton was originally scheduled to appear on “The Late Show” in November, prior to “The Simple Life’s” first-season premiere. However, that interview — and most of her pre-show publicity — fell victim to the minor scandal surrounding the now-infamous sex tape of her and then-boyfriend Rick Salomon.
At the time, Letterman joked on the air that her “crisis management” team was doing the wrong thing by keeping Hilton out of public view.
“All I want to say to Paris is you’re being led down the wrong path,” he said shortly after the interview was cancelled. “You come on this show, by god, we’ll make you a hero.”
With the sex-tape escapades pretty much faded from view, Hilton and her handlers have no problem now getting the socialite back in front of the cameras, where she spends much of her time anyway.