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DIED. David Janssen, 48, craggily handsome actor who played tough, terse, but vulnerable heroes like the wrongly convicted doctor who pursued his wife's killer for four years in the ABC-TV hit series The Fugitive; of a heart attack; in Malibu, Calif...
While the rest of the world stares at ABC-TV and the story of the hostages day 92, Paul says people in his part of the world are more concerned with inflation, with energy. "People say a loaf of bread is 89 cents, they talk about the way oil is up --those are the real things," he says. The woodstove business in the area is booming, cordwood increasingly hard to find. And almost every front door has been abandoned. People insulate the opening with a sheet of plastic and walk around back to enter through the kitchen...
Considering the credits, it could almost be called All in the Family: Paul Newman, director; Wife Joanne Woodward, star; Daughter Susan Newman, coproducer. Actually, it's The Shadow Box, an ABC-TV movie adaptation of the prizewinning play about three terminally ill patients and their families. Valerie Harper, the fun ny Ms. Nutzy of the Rhoda series, plays the deadly serious wife of a fast-fading truck driver. Woodward is a boozing broad who sleeps with anyone. That was the director's idea. Says Newman, who last directed his wife twelve years ago in Rachel, Rachel...
...Utah murderer who refused to appeal his conviction and death sentence and demanded that the state kill him. Utah obliged, but only after a ritual that turned Gilmore into a grotesque celebrity. Shortly before the prisoner was seated in front of a dirty mattress to face the firing squad, ABC-TV's Geraldo Rivera was screaming into his mike to his producers at Good Morning, America in New York: "Kill the Rona segment. Get rid of it. Give me air. You'll be able to hear the shots. I promise. You'll be able to hear...
Even in the era of the minibuck the figure is astonishing: $225 million. But ABC, which last week agreed to pay that much for TV coverage of the 1984 Olympics, thinks it has a bargain. "We intend to more than recover our costs," ABC-TV President Fred Pierce proudly announced in Los Angeles, host city to the '84 summer Games...