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...Americans will have their moments at Calgary. Good news for ABC-TV and its exclusive coverage of the games. Good news for those who will be watching ABC for the next two weeks. But as in all the past Winter Games, it will take more than just another "Miracle on Ice" for the Americans to dominate the Games...
...kingdom of television, there are a thousand different styles, rituals, protocols. Every Sunday, for example, ABC-TV's David Brinkley welcomes a guest with not one, not two but three ceremonial expressions of welcome, a bouquet of courtesy that is positively Japanese: "Mr. Secretary, thank you for being here . . . Delighted you could come . . . a pleasure to have you . . ." One expects it, waits for it. ABC-TV's White House correspondent Sam Donaldson forever shouts at the President above the noise of the waiting helicopter, and the President forever turns and cups his hand quizzically. The ceremony almost never yields...
...ABC-TV's most temperamental femme fatale? What movie star can most quickly bring a lump to your throat? Whose acting skills can make you gasp in admiration? Who is the fanciest dude on the screen today? Enough. The questions are too easy, and you already know that the answers are not Cybill Shepherd, William Hurt, Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy...
...struggle against apartheid is a story whose time has come for the film industry. Camille Cosby, wife of Comedian Bill Cosby, owns the rights to Winnie Mandela's autobiography and plans to produce a TV movie about her. The Mandelas figure prominently in an ABC-TV historical mini-series, still in the works, which has excited the interest of Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte and Jane Fonda. Three theatrical movies probing racial conflict in South Africa are on the way. The first and most prestigious of the three is Cry Freedom, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough (Gandhi). Due in early November...
...Horse, Parker's private-eye hero Spenser embarked on studiedly medieval quests to rescue damsels in distress. Some fans admired the chivalric plots and illuminated prose; others, finding these adventures merely portentous, longed for a return to the snarly, wisecracking style of Parker's earlier books and the ABC-TV series spin-off, Spenser...