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BY RANDY REIGER
THE GONGFARMER BY RANDY REGIER
New York-based talk shows struggle to find guests after terrorist attacks
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Since Sept. 11, television talk shows based in New York are having a tough time filling their couches.
The star-making machinery has been slowed by many celebrities' reluctance to travel, forcing many talk shows to cope with last-minute cancellations and invite guests who normally wouldn't get a second look.
Not that it's hurting too much: David Letterman's ratings are surging, and he's drawn some of the best reviews of his career for gently guiding the nation back to comedy in a tragic and anxious time.
Two California-based TV entertainment chiefs said they were having trouble persuading stars to trek east for promotion, something the shows have noticed.
"I've certainly heard of a lot of cancellations," said Hillary Kun, chief booker on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." "I know the other talk shows that are New York-based are having trouble. There's not as much selection as there normally would be."
Drew Barrymore and Heather Graham both backed out of scheduled appearances on Letterman's Late Show.
Barrymore was pressed into service as host of Saturday Night Live a week ahead of schedule when Ben Stiller canceled, putting her a few floors away from the NBC News headquarters in Rockefeller Center the week an anthrax exposure was reported. She fled the building, but was coaxed back to appear on the show.
Both Emeril Lagasse and Steve
Harvey backed out of Conan O'Brien's "Late Night" the day anthrax was reported, leaving only musical guest Tenacious D. O'Brien hurriedly booked NBC's Dr. Bob Arnott.
"The Rosie O'Donnell Show," which, like Late Night, is taped in NBC's building, canceled a full week of shows because of the anthrax scare. That prompted radio host Howard Stern to taunt O'Donnell for timidity when he appeared at the Madison Square Garden benefit concert.
Gradually, Kun said, the phones are ringing more.
"A lot of people are overcoming their fear," she said. "There are definitely more celebrities coming in. Not as many as normal, but a lot more than there were two weeks ago."
Crossword
ACROSS
1 Mr. Baba
4 Rascal
9 Stairway, in Milan
14 Edge
15 __ bear
16 Abodes
17 High mountain
18 Similar
19 Vibrant
20 Extaled poet
22 Induced insensibility to pain
24 Reconnoiter
26 Water pitchers
27 Rosary unit
29 Pie __ mode
30 Component
34 Significant period
36 Took an inside photograph
38 Toast topper
39 Interrogate after a mission
41 Upper limit
43 Out of work
44 Motionless
46 Bossy's comment
47 Drove (a nail) obliquely
48 Match unit for Venus
49 Durante feature
51 Pullman bed
53 Baseball teams
56 Best man's counterpart
61 Fret
62 Bucolic
63 Bitterly pungent
65 Exist
66 In the rigging
67 School composition
68 Tombstone letters
69 Fender flaws
70 "Steppenwolf" author
71 Thus far
DOWN
1 Some semites
2 Pinkish purple
3 Not likely
4 Health resort
5 Soft drink
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55
56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71
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6 Dress design
7 Allow to pass
8 Choose in advance
9 Former rulers of Iran
10 Composer Porter
11 "Lucky Jim" author
12 Jeans man Strauss
13 Cruising
21 Expected
23 Soon-to-be former car
25 Cab
28 Puts on clothes
30 D.C. old-timer
31 Providing nourishment
32 City on the Truckee
33 West African republic
34 Cut and splice
35 Make over
37 Consequence
40 Buttons of film
Solutions to yesterday's nuzzle
42 PC image
45 Diplomatic official
50 Bro's sibling
51 Big swigs
52 Employs
54 Uncanny
55 Used a broom
56 Golfer Faxon
57 Govern
58 Press
59 Crazy
60 Switches to low beams
64 Sandra of films
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