Prom: David Carr Weighs In

Mr. Little, a one-man time machine, obliged by dialing the room back decades to a time when Uncle Walter told us that’s the way it is, Johnny Carson tucked us all in and a bit about Richard Nixon singing “My Way” was considered naughty fun. A painful piano ditty that would not pass muster in the Catskills made fun, not of the president, but of something we can all get behind: Osama bin Laden’s turban.