As for O'Brien, whose last Tonight show is tonight, he is taking the money ($33m for him, $12m for his staff) and exiting stage left – still raging.
It's all made up!" In his last "Tonight Show," Mr. O'Brien told young people to avoid cynicism, saying it "doesn't lead anywhere".
Ventura's homer was the last tonight, a three-run, pinch-hit shot wrapped around the right-field foul pole off Sun Woo Kim in the eighth.
The final announced performance hosted by Letterman, on his penultimate show on Tuesday night, was by Bob Dylan (the Foo Fighters are rumoured to be the last tonight).
It's a look he sported during his last Tonight Show appearance in October 2007, and given the public outcry over bonuses being paid to AIG, it's a look he should return to now.
But on Tuesday night at Bowery Ballroom (in the first of four sold-out New York performances, the last tonight at Warsaw in Brooklyn), the Montreal group Godspeed You Black Emperor! didn't sing any songs about peace.
Even this farewell tour – just four dates, the last tonight in Paris – has the ring of a band aching to put down their instruments so they can go back to bed.
It will face down-home competition from W. C. Clark, a bluesman from Austin, Tex., whose music has a streak of Memphis soul, and whose songs ask questions like "How Long Is a Heartache Supposed to Last?" Tonight at 7 30 and 10 30; tickets are $20 (Pareles).
But skating last tonight and in need of a remarkable effort to knock Yagudin out of first, Plushenko had to settle for mediocrity: downgrading his planned quadruple toe opener to a double, falling on his next quadruple attempt and failing to perform two planned spins, which left him with an unbalanced program.
*Fanfarlo play the Old Blue Last tonight.
What's on at The Old Blue Last tonight, you say?
