He was on Letterman last night -- not that I saw it -- but here are some highlights:
Olbermann appeared to be engaging in some reputation rehab by appearing self-deprecating on the show.
"I screwed up really big on this. It's my fault that it didn't succeed, in the sense that I didn't think the whole thing through."
Olbermann compared himself to a $10 million chandelier. "I didn't say, 'You know, if you buy a $10 million chandelier, you should have a house to put it in.' Just walking around with a $10 million chandelier isn't going to do anybody a lot of good."
"You're the chandelier?" Letterman said.
Um, yeah. Olbermann is suggesting that someone of his renown ("EGO") shouldn't have signed up with the lowly "Current" in the first place.
As I said earlier, once he ran down the block of thinking people really valued his opinion on any topic, the die was cast.
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And speaking of casts and dying, there is this tidbit out of Vienna:
Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality
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An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one.
Daniel Hoevels, 30, slumped over with blood pouring from his neck while the audience broke into applause at the "special effect". Police are investigating whether the knife was a mistake or a murder plot. They are questioning the rest of the cast, and backstage hands with access to props; they will also carry out DNA tests.
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It was only when he did not get up to take a bow that anyone realised something had gone wrong.
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Though bleeding profusely, Hoevels survived because the knife missed the carotid artery as it sliced into his neck. Wolfgang Lenz, a doctor who treated him, said: "Just a little bit deeper and he would have been drowning in his own blood."
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After emergency treatment at a hospital, Hoevels declared that the show must go on, and returned to the stage on Sunday night...
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