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. (CNN)When the first episode of NBC s Tonight show debuted in 1954, it had only one job: Be more interesting than watching nothing at all.
In those days, network television shows all ended around 11 o clock, explains veteran comedy writer David Pollock in CNN Original Series The Story of Late Night. Soon a flag would wave, a test pattern would emerge, and by the time the network went to static you knew it was time for bed.
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Movie studios have pushed their biggest bets all the way to the end of 2021 to avoid having to move them more than once. “When I looked at the available dates, there was a date in March that we were thinking about,” Grode says of
Dune. “There was a date in the end of May, or beginning of June. I figured March is probably too soon to really have a full return to this theater experience. People need to put their toe in the water and then they put their ankle, then they go up to their knee in order to kind of get back to daily life. That takes time.”
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Alto Reed, the saxophonist known as a longtime member of Bob Seger s Silver Bullet Band, died Wednesday after a battle with colon cancer. He was 72. Alto has been a part of our musical family, on and off stage, for nearly 50 years, Seger wrote in a statement published on social media. I first starting playing with Alto in 1971. He was amazing – he could play just about anything…he was funky, could scat and play tenor sax and alto sax at the same time.
Born Thomas Neal Cartmell in 1948, Reed was, like Seger, a Detroit native, and a member of the Silver Bullet Band from its earliest days. His most famous performances included the saxophone solo on Old Time Rock and Roll and the intro to the classic rock radio favorite Turn the Page.