European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse If Cuomo enters the race he could Lap democrats Fie Dandy Rooney the Winner of the democratic primary race could easily be none of the above. There does no to appear to be a Winner among the five candidates running in new Hampshire. When they play the world series i make an honest attempt to get interested in the teams even though in a not a baseball fan. When they have the new Hampshire primary every four years i try to get interested in the candidates even though politics Isnit my game either. Getting interested is some Job this year. Can you name the five democrats who Are running you can to name All five How about three then can you name two the five Are Thomas har Kin. Edmund Brown jr., Robert pc nov. William Clinton and Paul Tsongas. To sound More electable they Call themselves Tom. Jerry. Bob and Bill. Paul does t have a nickname. Tsongas May be the Best of the lot. Too. But As a speaker he makes George Bush sound like Demosthenes. Bill Clinton is fighting off a Story spread by a Man he fired that he slept with a miss America. He denies it and there s no smoking picture of her on his Lap As there was with Gary Hart and anyway it s better than a Story that he slept with one of the miss America losers. Kerrey a chief claim to being a presidential contender is that he a a War hero. Being a War hero is an honorable condition but it does t qualify anyone to be president. Whatever he May really be. Jerry Brown gives the impression of being a Bright nut. How does a major political party spend three years thinking about the next election and not come up with a real live charismatic contender to George Bush s throne some of these candidates Are Able and intelligent but its apparent that none of them has what it takes to give Bush a run for our Money. It s hard to believe Mario Cuomo wont be in there at the end. He has missed a lot of primary deadlines but he Hasni to missed new York new Jersey California and a lot of others. There is no Legal reason Why Mario Cuomo end up being the democratic candidate and there s As Good a Chance hell do that As there is that the Chicago bulls will repeat As Aba champs. Given the problems he has As governor of new York Cuomo was Wise to say he was t going to run. I think he meant it. Tiro. 1 done to think he had in mind entering the race after some of the primaries arc Over but it could happen. It must have crossed his mind. It makes too much sense for him not to do it. Given the Competition. He s the Only Democrat who has any Chance at All. He s probably not going to beat Bush but that s another contest. George Bush gets Nasty dirty during a Campaign. It got him elected last time but it May not help him this time. It worked against Dukakis but Cuomo in t Dukakis. Cuomo is smart and he knows How to fight dirty too. If he runs against Bush Bush May win but he s going to know he was in a Light which he did t know last time. Getting Nasty could Hurt Bush in november. He lashed out at the democrats recently and he did t look attractive doing it. He looked like a Petty vindictive. Do anything to win politician. 11 1 thought that several million other americans must have thought so too. The thing that a going to Hurt Bush the most Isu t even his fault. That seems fair in View of the unfair Way he ran his last Campaign a or allowed it to be run for him. What a going to Hurt him most is the depression we re in. The democrats ought to Start calling it a depression too instead of a recession. The word a a recession Means the act of receding. Well we be been recessed Long enough now to Call it a depression. Come out come out wherever you Are Mario Tribune Modla services Andy Rooney is a torpor stars and strips Oporto talk from Hall before the fall of retiring Ca Sonby James Endrst the Hartford courant its High noon in Hollywood and Arsenio Hall is getting ready for the big shootout. Quot i feel like this gunslinger. That everybody a coming to town to get a says the Host of the Arsenio Hull show. On this recent evening Hall 32, is putting in Couch time with a Small group of reporters backstage in the Green room after a taping of his syndicated show at Paramount studios in Hollywood. Sweeping into the room swirl with nervous Energy he is surrounded by a flashy female posse of executives and assistants. Elegantly dressed and almost sheepishly sunday school polite Hall takes care of introductions welcomes his guests sits Down and to borrow one of his favorite expressions gets Busy. Its time to talk about life after Johnny Carson. Carson Halls childhood idol and late nights top gun bows out in May after 30 years As Host of no cd a the tonight show. When that happens predicts late nights current no. 2, Quot the ratings will go Hall a the hip hop alternative for the 18-to 34-year-old crowd left cold by Carson a has no illusions about starting a similar talk show dynasty. Quot ill never be the next Johnny a says Hall the first Black to Host a successful late night talk show. A and this is not just to be modest but no one will Ever occupy the numbers he a occupied for 29 years. I think we re in a different Era now. All kinds of things Are changing. People Are making moves. Already things Are starting to a get Busy in the late night time period. Former saturday night live Star Dennis Miller for example launched his own syndicated talk show in january with great fanfare but so far shaky results. And More challengers wait in the wings. Arsenio Hall �?o111 never be the next Johnny Hall however does no to plan to change a thing. A i think the businessman inside of me knows that its stupid to do anything different a says the Cleveland native. A the night Jay Leno takes Over As Host of the tonight show wont do anything different than i did the night some of the big wheels at Paramount television a the people who produce the Arsenio Hall show a feel differently he admits. A a this is the Opportunity to Branch out and capture everything a a he says mimicking their Ultra White Collar voices. Hall disagrees. He does no to want to get greedy and even goes so far As to say he will retire from talk when his contract expires in three years to concentrate on movies and other projects. Quot As far As Carson leaving you know in a just Gonna keep doing what in a doing the Way i do it. We never battled in a numbers sense. I had mine. I be had his. I never really took Johnny a audience so him being there or not being there does no to necessarily make a difference with me other than the emotional Side of it. It s the end of a great Era. Johnny a , he says May be the anointed successor but he will never be Able to fill Johnny a Many Industry experts did t think the Arsenio Hall show had much of a Chance to fill anything but a few weeks of air time when it premiered in january 1989, something the Host has not forgotten. A with the exception of maybe one critic everybody pretty much had pronounced me dead on arrival Quot he recalls. A they just did no to think it could critics seemed far More willing at the time to buy into cd so Short lived Carson clone. The Tat Sajak show. They were wrong. Apparently they did no to realize a but Hall did a that the key to late night Success was to create a new audience not compete for Carson loyalists. Since then Hall has garnered More than his share of the pop spotlight with to guide covers which called him the to person of the year in 1990 and popularity polls including one from time can that named him favorite Fate night Host. He has won kudos too. For his work with Public service organizations such As dare drug abuse resistance education for which he was honoured last month with an a act image award. A Sec my show is kind of like this party that you re invited to a he says. A and a lot of people would never in their lives go to a party at a Black person s House. Its like they say goodbye in the parking lot of the Post office and that a it. I give them the Opportunity to say in the safety of their Home let me share this Lind out what Jim Brown is talking about in relationship to the gang situation in l.a., and at the same time other audiences get to meet people they would never listen to or talk to or whatever. I think its Good for this country. I May be taking myself too seriously but i think its Good Lor this not that any of Hall s crossover Appeal or Success came easily. A i think one thing was it might have appeared in tally that it was a private club and part of that also could have come from the fact that. I could Only Book the people that maybe i could get a hold of. You know it was a Long time Blore the Sylvester Stallones read White superstar business oriented actor came these Days just about everybody does Arsenio it they have any business sense and their target audience is Young. And the mix is decidedly Eclectic Black and White a place Lor rappers and yuppies. It s a place where the Madonnas of the world can throw a scene and Earvin Quot magic Quot Johnson can talk to a Friend and the world at the same Tim february 9 1992 sunday Page 7
