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Aug. 26, 1991: View Points:Television
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 26, 1991 Science Under Siege
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 63
TELEVISION
Son Burn
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<p>By Richard Corliss
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<p> Temperature's rising on late night TV, and the young
fellow with the thermometer--oh, it's a microphone--is Ron
Reagan, former ballet dancer, occasional journalist and
permanent son of the 40th President of the U.S. Gipperphiles
will tune in to THE RON REAGAN SHOW to see the host twit Kitty
Kelley, "who we know applies only the highest journalistic
standards to her work." Gipperphobes will be pleased to hear Ron
bad-mouth the policies of the Reagan Administration. He treads
the tightrope in Jimmy Stewart style, his aw-shucks ingenuity
tempered with wry skepticism. The kid needs both in this R-rated
melange of volatile guests (discussing steroids, Fundamentalism,
rap music, gay rage) and a rowdy, het-up audience. The result
is part encounter group, part bear baiting. And Ron seems
willing to play, not omniscient emcee, but human sacrifice. "I
used to be able to control this show," he quipped after both he
and his wife had been called gay, "but no more." It makes for
gruesome spectacle and, so far, nifty TV.
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