DAVID LETTERMAN IS COOL

Deadline Hollywood is reporting that David Letterman will pay the entire staff of "the Late Show" with his own money while the show is shut down during the writers strike.  CBS stopped paying the staff when the show halted production last week.  NBC is trying the same tactic to put pressure on the writers, and has threatened to lay off the entire staff of "the Tonight Show" unless the writers come back to work.  Deadline says Letterman has committed to pay them at least through the end of the year.

"Dave's not doing this to get good press, which is why it hasn't been reported for almost two days," a source tells me. "This is really significant because, as opposed to all of the other shows, this money comes out of Dave's own pocket."  

Dave Letterman is the fuckin coolest.  I like to think I would kind of do the same thing, that I would do my part to help the people who worked for me, but then it would occur to me – fuck those homos.  And then I'd roll around on the waterbed and throw a pile of hundreds at the naked teen models.