Date 05/05/2015 - News People
Inevitably, the Late Show's wind down has struck a heavily nostalgic tone, with clip reels and beloved frequent guests looking back rather than forward. (And don't forget that, in addition, last night CBS devoted 90 minutes of its primetime programming to a best-of retrospective, David Letterman: A Life on Television.) By contrast, Monday's show was a bit startling for how rooted in the here-and-now it was. That's not so surprising when you have the President of the United States on: The guy sitting in the Oval Office has too many fires to put out at any one time to waste a moment getting all misty-eyed about the past.??
