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			Tuesday, April 02, 2002 Show #1781
			By Michael Z. McIntee	Change Text Color: Black \| White


	Tim Robbins; Jimmie Walker; and the cast of the Broadway musical "Oklahoma!". PLUS: *Coach Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers; the Late Show* Celebrity X-Ray Challenge; and who's helping with the drought in New York City.** Dave is excited to have the cast of Oklahoma! on our show tonight. Some of Dave's favorite show tunes come from that American favorite musical. How can one resist singing, "Oklahoma, Where the waving wheat can sure smell sweet, when the wind comes right behind the rain. Oklahoma!" Or, "Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day. I got a beautiful feeling Everything's going my way." Last night's NCAA Basketball Championship game found the Maryland Terrapins defeating the Indiana Hoosiers, 64-52. It was pretty much an uneventful game but something odd did happen when Maryland began to pull away late in the game. Did you see it? Dave calls for the clip. We see Coach Bob Knight angrily yelling at his players, pushing one during his tantrum. Does he know he doesn't even coach them anymore? LATE SHOW CELEBRITY X-RAY CHALLENGE: How do we play? Rupert has the X-Ray of a celebrity on a light box in his Hello Deli. He finds a contestant from 53rd Street. The contestant can ask the secret celebrity, who is on Rupert's phone, 10 questions to determine to whom the X-Ray belongs. Before we begin, Dave can't get the Oklahoma! show tunes out of his head. Instead of Dave just singing the songs and looking like a fool, he suggests that Rupert moves his mouth as if singing while Dave sings the actual song. What seemed like a silly idea turned out to be brilliant fun. I found it a hoot. Rupert goes out to 53rd Street and finds Natalie from Hawaii. (This brings me to something I've always wondered: Where do people from Hawaii go on their honeymoon?) Natalie says she is from Maui. Dave follows with his standard Hawaii question, "Is that the 'Big Island'?" No, it isn't. Here to explain what the X-Ray shows is famed physician, Dr. Lou Aronne. Dr. Lou examines the X-Ray and detects an arthritic condition of the foot and signs of a bone spur. The remedy? Ice it and stay off it. Alan tells us who the secret celebrity is. Alan: "Dave, tonight's Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge Celebrity is actor/producer/director Danny DeVito." It's time to begin. Natalie begins to ask the secret celebrity questions over the phone, questions I miss since I was talking about my fantasy baseball team with a co-worker. My team, The Wahoo's, is in first place after two days into the season. Dave has a card-counter he flips after each question. After 5 or so questions, Dave says he will have to turn over the rest of the cards and Natalie must now make a guess. She says she has no idea. Dave asks, "How about you, Rupert. Do you have an idea?" Rupert shrugs and says, "Don Rickles?" Over the phone you can hear Danny DeVito yell, "Don Rickles? You schmuck!" With that, Rupert "accidentally" hangs up the phone and so Dave has to reveal the identity of the Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge celebrity. It is Danny DeVito. But there are no losers on the Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge. In come the models and Dr. Lou Aronne with a lovely Hello Deli deli platter for Natalie. Dave asks for a close-up of the tomato.. I "Played the Foley" as I expected the camera man to be directed by our director Jerry Foley to zoom in on one of the models, but it wasn't to be. We got the actual tomato. By now you are probably aware of the drought we are suffering in New York. Everybody is doing their share to help out. Even the Mafia. Instead of dumping bodies in the Hudson River, they now are dumping their bodies in New Jersey. "The Mafia - Working for You." TIM ROBBINS: Dressed in all black. Tim is a big baseball fan, more a Met fan than a fan of that other New York team. He did go to one Yankee game. It was the David Wells perfect game a few years back. The guy knows how to picks a game, doesn't he? I have two best baseball games in my book. 1) 1984 - Dave Righetti's no-hitter vs the Red Sox on the 4th of July. 2) Game 6 of the 1996 World Series - the Yankees defeat the Braves to win the World Series. Oh yeah, one more. 3) 1995 - Playoff Game 2, Yankees vs. Seattle. Jimmy Leyritz hits a game winning home run in the 15th inning. How about one more. 4) 1968 (?) - Yankee outfielder Rocky Colavito pitches 3 shutout innings against the Tigers for the win. Tim's movie, Human Nature opens Friday, April 12. Tim plays a Behavioral Scientists attempting to teach mice good table manners. We see a clip. Tim looks like Jerry Springer and acts like George Costanza. An interesting scene. Tim is also opening in a play called The Guys right after our show. It's a two-person show (Tim and Swoozie Kurtz) and is a true account of a fire captain who lost 8 men on September 11th. He is faced with the daunting task of writing 8 eulogies. The show was previously performed by Bill Murray and Sigorney Weaver, and Susan Sarandon and Anthony LaPaglia. It is showing at "The Flea" theater in the Tribeca section of Manhattan. JIMMIE WALKER: Kid-Dynomite! I want to know who does his ties. You know what they say about a man with a short tie -- he doesn't know how to tie a tie. Jimmie says he feels extra loose tonight. "I am so loose they call me Ex-lax Man." Jimmie was going a mile a minute and it was hard to keep up, so I checked out his website at www.dynomitejj.com. There's an interesting photo in there you may be interested in. Jimmie is performing this Thursday at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, and on April 20th he will be at McGuire's on Long Island. During the audience shot, Alan Kalter announces, "If you are a celebrity and have an X-Ray you'd like to see on Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge, send it to: Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge c/o Late Show 1697 Broadway New York, New York 10019" *OKLAHOMA!* - The cast performs "Oh What A Beautiful Morning" and "Oklahoma!" You can see Oklahoma! at the Gershwin Theater at 222 West 51st Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue. At the close of the show, not one audience member can walk out without humming or singing one of those two songs. And that was our show for Tuesday April 2, 2002. Wahoo EXTRA! I'm about to have my basement done over so I have to move everything out of the basement and into the garage or attic or closet or anywhere there is space. The past two night immediately after work I rush home to continue the move. I then sit and write this after midnight. Right now I'm thinking what to write next to fill up space. I have nothing. (See what I'm doing? I'm filling up space) I'm not sure but I think Biff at Yankee Spring Training is scheduled for Wednesday or Thursday. Check your local listings. Congratulations to the University of Maryland for winning the NCAA Basketball Championship. And congratulations to your fans for behaving like a bunch of yahoos in their destructive celebration. How come big bad New York knows how to behave when they win a championship and the more "civilized" towns like those in Maryland behave so poorly? Yankees are a game out of first, and one in the "all-important" loss column. You don't want to fall behind too far too early. Tim Robbins; Jimmie Walker; and the cast of the Broadway musical "Oklahoma!". PLUS: *Coach Bob Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers; the Late Show* Celebrity X-Ray Challenge; and who's helping with the drought in New York City.** Dave is excited to have the cast of Oklahoma! on our show tonight. Some of Dave's favorite show tunes come from that American favorite musical. How can one resist singing, "Oklahoma, Where the waving wheat can sure smell sweet, when the wind comes right behind the rain. Oklahoma!" Or, "Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day. I got a beautiful feeling Everything's going my way." Last night's NCAA Basketball Championship game found the Maryland Terrapins defeating the Indiana Hoosiers, 64-52. It was pretty much an uneventful game but something odd did happen when Maryland began to pull away late in the game. Did you see it? Dave calls for the clip. We see Coach Bob Knight angrily yelling at his players, pushing one during his tantrum. Does he know he doesn't even coach them anymore? LATE SHOW CELEBRITY X-RAY CHALLENGE: How do we play? Rupert has the X-Ray of a celebrity on a light box in his Hello Deli. He finds a contestant from 53rd Street. The contestant can ask the secret celebrity, who is on Rupert's phone, 10 questions to determine to whom the X-Ray belongs. Before we begin, Dave can't get the Oklahoma! show tunes out of his head. Instead of Dave just singing the songs and looking like a fool, he suggests that Rupert moves his mouth as if singing while Dave sings the actual song. What seemed like a silly idea turned out to be brilliant fun. I found it a hoot. Rupert goes out to 53rd Street and finds Natalie from Hawaii. (This brings me to something I've always wondered: Where do people from Hawaii go on their honeymoon?) Natalie says she is from Maui. Dave follows with his standard Hawaii question, "Is that the 'Big Island'?" No, it isn't. Here to explain what the X-Ray shows is famed physician, Dr. Lou Aronne. Dr. Lou examines the X-Ray and detects an arthritic condition of the foot and signs of a bone spur. The remedy? Ice it and stay off it. Alan tells us who the secret celebrity is. Alan: "Dave, tonight's Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge Celebrity is actor/producer/director Danny DeVito." It's time to begin. Natalie begins to ask the secret celebrity questions over the phone, questions I miss since I was talking about my fantasy baseball team with a co-worker. My team, The Wahoo's, is in first place after two days into the season. Dave has a card-counter he flips after each question. After 5 or so questions, Dave says he will have to turn over the rest of the cards and Natalie must now make a guess. She says she has no idea. Dave asks, "How about you, Rupert. Do you have an idea?" Rupert shrugs and says, "Don Rickles?" Over the phone you can hear Danny DeVito yell, "Don Rickles? You schmuck!" With that, Rupert "accidentally" hangs up the phone and so Dave has to reveal the identity of the Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge celebrity. It is Danny DeVito. But there are no losers on the Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge. In come the models and Dr. Lou Aronne with a lovely Hello Deli deli platter for Natalie. Dave asks for a close-up of the tomato.. I "Played the Foley" as I expected the camera man to be directed by our director Jerry Foley to zoom in on one of the models, but it wasn't to be. We got the actual tomato. By now you are probably aware of the drought we are suffering in New York. Everybody is doing their share to help out. Even the Mafia. Instead of dumping bodies in the Hudson River, they now are dumping their bodies in New Jersey. "The Mafia - Working for You." TIM ROBBINS: Dressed in all black. Tim is a big baseball fan, more a Met fan than a fan of that other New York team. He did go to one Yankee game. It was the David Wells perfect game a few years back. The guy knows how to picks a game, doesn't he? I have two best baseball games in my book. 1) 1984 - Dave Righetti's no-hitter vs the Red Sox on the 4th of July. 2) Game 6 of the 1996 World Series - the Yankees defeat the Braves to win the World Series. Oh yeah, one more. 3) 1995 - Playoff Game 2, Yankees vs. Seattle. Jimmy Leyritz hits a game winning home run in the 15th inning. How about one more. 4) 1968 (?) - Yankee outfielder Rocky Colavito pitches 3 shutout innings against the Tigers for the win. Tim's movie, Human Nature opens Friday, April 12. Tim plays a Behavioral Scientists attempting to teach mice good table manners. We see a clip. Tim looks like Jerry Springer and acts like George Costanza. An interesting scene. Tim is also opening in a play called The Guys right after our show. It's a two-person show (Tim and Swoozie Kurtz) and is a true account of a fire captain who lost 8 men on September 11th. He is faced with the daunting task of writing 8 eulogies. The show was previously performed by Bill Murray and Sigorney Weaver, and Susan Sarandon and Anthony LaPaglia. It is showing at "The Flea" theater in the Tribeca section of Manhattan. JIMMIE WALKER: Kid-Dynomite! I want to know who does his ties. You know what they say about a man with a short tie -- he doesn't know how to tie a tie. Jimmie says he feels extra loose tonight. "I am so loose they call me Ex-lax Man." Jimmie was going a mile a minute and it was hard to keep up, so I checked out his website at www.dynomitejj.com. There's an interesting photo in there you may be interested in. Jimmie is performing this Thursday at the University of Memphis in Tennessee, and on April 20th he will be at McGuire's on Long Island. During the audience shot, Alan Kalter announces, "If you are a celebrity and have an X-Ray you'd like to see on Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge, send it to: Late Show Celebrity X-Ray Challenge c/o Late Show 1697 Broadway New York, New York 10019" *OKLAHOMA!* - The cast performs "Oh What A Beautiful Morning" and "Oklahoma!" You can see Oklahoma! at the Gershwin Theater at 222 West 51st Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue. At the close of the show, not one audience member can walk out without humming or singing one of those two songs. And that was our show for Tuesday April 2, 2002. Wahoo EXTRA! I'm about to have my basement done over so I have to move everything out of the basement and into the garage or attic or closet or anywhere there is space. The past two night immediately after work I rush home to continue the move. I then sit and write this after midnight. Right now I'm thinking what to write next to fill up space. I have nothing. (See what I'm doing? I'm filling up space) I'm not sure but I think Biff at Yankee Spring Training is scheduled for Wednesday or Thursday. Check your local listings. Congratulations to the University of Maryland for winning the NCAA Basketball Championship. And congratulations to your fans for behaving like a bunch of yahoos in their destructive celebration. How come big bad New York knows how to behave when they win a championship and the more "civilized" towns like those in Maryland behave so poorly? Yankees are a game out of first, and one in the "all-important" loss column. You don't want to fall behind too far too early.


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