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Expert: Doomsayers May Be Premature
 (CBS) Some Hollywood types are predicting bluntly that comedian Michael Richards ruined his career Friday night when he lashed out with a string of racial slurs at two hecklers during a standup performance.
Monday night, the former "Seinfeld" star went on "The Late Show with David Letterman" and apologized, saying, "I'm really busted up over this, and I am very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites, everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage."
But is that apology enough to save Richards' career?
Media crisis expert Sally Stewart says probably not, but that doesn't mean Richards should give up.
"It certainly came across like he was, as he said, busted up about it," Stewart told The Early Show co-anchor Hannah Storm Wednesday, "but it probably wasn't enough to satisfy the American people. … It was very good of him to apologize immediately and to go on the Letterman show, but, in actuality, the Letterman show is kind of a very friendly environment for a comedian. I think that, if I had been advising Michael Richards, I might have steered him more toward 60 Minutes or perhaps even a Black Entertainment Television.
"I think there's an opportunity here for him to increase his career, not ruin it, as a lot of other people in Hollywood think he has."
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