How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night
By Jennifer Wilson••The New Yorker
His show became the epicenter of early-nineties cool, with the decade’s biggest names, from Tom Cruise to Bill Clinton, stopping by to earn street cred. Jennifer Wilson reports.
Late night isnt just a time slot. Its a concept, a temporal metaphor for what we can get away with under the cloak of night, when the kids are asleep, when we can claim innocencenothing else was on! …