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The Gilded Age premiere hides Letterman and Damon cameos

Damon wears a top hat and mustache and Letterman a bowler hat and beard in the premiere, filmed on the show's Long Island street set; neither is credited.

On air: Chip Darnell and Gloria Vance on BBN After Hours
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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorDavid Letterman and Matt Damon walk across East Sixty-First Street about eight minutes and forty-four seconds into the Gilded Age premiere, and HBO confirms it.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNobody speaks, and nobody's credited!

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorLetterman has wanted to be a background actor since a friend's cameo in Annie Hall in nineteen seventy-seven. He waited forty-nine years to be overlooked, and the network delivered.

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