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  • David Letterman: Bill Murray Will Be ‘Late Show’ Host’s Final Guest

    David Letterman will bid adieu to late night TV on Wednesday, May 20th, when he hangs up his hat on CBS’s Late Show. He will host his final guest the night before–May 19th–and it is the same person he hosted as his first guest 33 years ago.

    Bill Murray was David Letterman’s first guest and will soon be his last. He has appeared on Light Night and The Late Show 43 times in 33 years.

    During his first visit with David Letterman, Bill Murray said, “You got out of Indianapolis and didn’t look back. I’m just waiting for the other shoe to fall on you, man, and I want to be there when it hits the floor! I had a chance to strangle Richard Nixon and I didn’t—and I regret it!”

    Check out the first time Bill Murray was a guest on David Letterman’s show.

    Tom Hanks and singer Eddie Vedder will appear on The Late Show to wish David Letterman well on Monday.

    This Sunday, David Letterman will chat with Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday Morning. It is his only scheduled TV interview before hosting The Late Show for the final time.

    Are you finding it hard to believe that David Letterman is leaving late night TV next week? Despite the fabulous guests the talk show host will chat with, the coming days will be bittersweet for fans.

    Will you be checking out David Letterman as he chats with Tom Hanks on Monday, Bill Murray on Tuesday, and appears on his final show on Wednesday?

    CBS says the final show “will be an hour filled with surprises [and] memorable highlights.”

    David Letterman has made lots of memories over the past 33 years–for himself, his guests, and for his fans.

    Thanks for those memories, Dave.

  • Jane Pauley Talks Her New Calling

    Jane Pauley Talks Her New Calling

    Jane Pauley was only 25 years old when she walked into the spotlight of morning TV on the Today show. It’s been 25 years since her first day on the show and Pauley says that she now has a new calling. She opened up about her past, present and future to CBS and was happy to discuss her career.

    “I am 25 years old today, and some people say that is simply not old enough. Well, I’m inclined to think it makes precious little difference how old I am. At any rate, I can’t do anything about it but anticipate my 26th birthday upcoming in two weeks,” Pauley said during her first Today show.

    “I was so young,” Pauley said of her first day on the show. “I knew I didn’t belong there. And if you hear my little speech on that first day, I’m trying to talk like anchor people talk. You can hear me trying really hard, to both apologize for being too young but to sound mature? It’s painful!”

    Pauley lived most of her life in the spotlight and because she was so young when she started the show, she hit all of the major life milestones while working on it.

    Pauley said that she was grateful to have been given such an amazing opportunity at such a young age, but now that she is almost 65, she said that her new calling is to help others reinvent themselves no matter what age they are.

    “We are at a stage of life where we’re supposed to be planning for, or anticipating, or dreading retirement,” she said. “When after that artificial date, at the age of 65, we know we could live another decade, two, or three. What are we going to do?”

    “In our 60s, we develop a confidence based on the experience and skills we have,” she added. “We are more risk-takers.”

    To help people reinvent themselves she has written a new book, Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life.

    The book shares Pauley’s story of reinvention and empowerment as well as the stories of others who have found success later in life.

    She believes that it is never too late to reinvent yourself, follow a dream or become the person you want to be.

  • Jane Pauley Returns to Hometown of Indianapolis for the Opening of New Family Health Center

    Former Today show host Jane Pauley returned to her hometown of Indianapolis Monday for the opening the Jane Pauley Community Health Center.

    Pauley was on hand for the ribbon cutting ceremony at the new facility, which is located in the same Eastside neighborhood where the famed journalist grew up.

    “That’s just extraordinary,” Pauley said. “These are thousands of patients served, families taken care of.”

    Pauley said 16th Street holds plenty of memories for her. She recalled how her father had almost died in nearby Community Hospital East, but lived another 12 years after surgery at the hospital saved his life.

    “I grew up as far from 16th Street as I’m standing now,” Pauley told The Indianapolis Star. “This building dates back to the 1950s, and so do I.”

    This is just one of 12 Jane Pauley Community Health Centers that cater to people regardless of their insurance status. The first center, established in 2009, saw 1,500 patients in its first four months and now the centers see more than 25,000 patients a year.

    When Pauley was asked to lend her name to the collaboration with the hospital that would produce the health center, she said she didn’t hesitate.

    “I am in awe of what Community East has done for my neighborhood,” she said.

    One member of the neighborhood, 87-year-old Sue King, came out to pay tribute to her former neighbor. Having lived just across the street from the Pauley family for years, she remembers the little girl who would become a household name.

    “She was just a little girl,” she said, remembering the Jane Pauley with pigtails. “She’s still just common ‘Janey’ to me.”

  • Jane Pauley Gives Great Retirement Advice

    Jane Pauley Gives Great Retirement Advice

    It was reunion time for the “Today” show when Matt Lauer, Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley got together to report the news. It was the second time the trio was reunited recently, as the first time was on Monday, Dec. 30, 2013, when they joined weatherman Al Roker for a back-in-the-day themed show.

    Pauley was also there to promote her new book “Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life,” which is about people rediscovering themselves in their latter years. The book is based on Pauley’s occasional “Today” show segment entitled “Life Reimagined.”

    In an interview with USA Today, the veteran newscaster said while writing her book and doing the “Life Reimagined” segments, she learned that many Baby Boomers still want to work after retirement, but they want to do something completely different.

    “What many of us are looking for at the other side of retirement is more work, but a different kind of work,” she said. “It’s not starting up a new career necessarily, though some will. But we do want to stay productive, and some will need or desire a paycheck. Maybe we want to do it without a boss. There’s a lot of research about people our age as entrepreneurs.”

    Additionally, Pauley said that she’s okay with not being that famous anymore, due to the fact that fame means something entirely different these days.

    “Fame used to be something one earned after decades of achievement, exposure, expertise,” she noted. “And today it’s happening so young for people like Justin Bieber. I had young fame and I was uncomfortable with it because it didn’t feel earned. I’m not apologetic anymore, at 63. I’m fine with it [and] comfortable talking about ‘I used to be famous’ without the self-consciousness of the 33-year old me.”

    And Pauley said she likes the term “Reimagined” over “Reinvention,” when it comes to deciding what to do after retirement, because the latter sounds like you only have one shot at figuring out what you want to do, which isn’t the case. And she pointed to her own career as a good example.

    “I’m still on television but the stories I tell are very different, and the way I tell them is very different,” she said. “While I have partners, I don’t have a boss, and I really like that.”

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