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Originally Posted by BlackArcher101
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I've heard about that movie before and its been mentioned a few times in this thread so I finally watched er yesterday. Pretty good movie actually, and lots of parallels to the current Conan/Leno situation. Does anyone know how close to reality that movie actually is? Did Letterman actually have the chance to take the show from Leno after a few months? That's actually scary how close that is to the current situation.
Also, I'm assuming because both men especially then were still very much still in show business so the movie makers did their best to make both Leno and Letterman look very much clean and separate from the whole ugly situation. While I don't doubt it was mostly an NBC execs fiasco, I couldn't fully buy that Leno was quite that "Aw shucks, mister" about the whole thing, and Letterman was just a goofy, fun, but socially awkward guy who didn't want to step on anyone's toes.