Jack and Steve

If the Fifties were such a cultural wasteland, why is it they had Steve Allen interviewing Jack Kerouac (Here's a video) and we have David Letterman interviewing Pamela Anderson?

Of course, the deprived Fifties also had Hemingway and Steinbeck but we've got...hold on, I'm sure some names will occur to me.

[HT: boingboing ]