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...Role of the Journalist in Foreign Policy--Henry Shapiro, former UPI Moscow Bureau chief and ABC-TV correspondent, Science Center...
Silverman's contract with ABC runs through the first week of June, and ABC-TV President Fred Pierce made it clear that ABC would try to keep him until then. That would deprive NBC of his programming cunning during the next 4½ months, when most of the key decisions will be made about next fall's schedule. "The longer ABC can keep Freddie from going to NBC, the better off it is," says Mike Dann, TV consultant and Silverman's longtime mentor. "By June ABC will have set up its plans until 1981, and NBC will...
...believes, "was the human family sitting down together. It by passed history unexpectedly." Before anyone grows excessively mystical about television, however, it is probably well to remember that a few minutes after the President of Egypt set foot in the ancient enemy's land for the first time, ABC-TV cut back to the Ohio State-University of Michigan football game. TV, like history, has its priorities...
...remarkably broad group of religious agencies zeroed in on ABC-TV's sex-saturated series Soap well before the public had even seen the show. The ensuing fuss helped make last week's Soap premiere (TIME, Sept. 12) into something like a national event. And the campaign has only begun. Church strategists who have had a bootlegged look at future and, they contend, far sleazier episodes of Soap expect public antagonism to build steadily...
That haunting, half-familiar figure with the rifle is not Lee Harvey Oswald, but Actor John Pleshette, filming an ABC-TV movie about him. The film shows Oswald's years in Russia and his life with Marina, but switches in a key spot to fiction. The script eliminates Jack Ruby and his fatal shot from history, leaving Oswald alive to go on trial-Eichmann-like-in a glass box. The verdict on his guilt is being kept secret from Ben Gazzara, who plays the ambitious prosecuting attorney, and Lorne Greene, the defense attorney. Nor does Pleshette yet know...