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Deena Katz, longtime casting director of ABC's reality hit Dancing with the Stars (DWTS), is used to rejection. For most big names, reality TV has all the cachet of a rest-stop Wendy's. But Katz doesn't give up easily. She has been wooing one of the upcoming season's contestants, Kelly Osbourne, since early in the show's history. Another, Chuck Liddell of the Ultimate Fighting Championship league, was first scouted when he showed up to watch singer Willa Ford in Season 3. When Katz reached out to former Texas Congressman Tom DeLay via his book agent...
...Longtime ABC newsman Charles Gibson is signing off. The World News anchor announced Sept. 2 that Diane Sawyer will replace him in January, making Brian Williams of NBC's Nightly News the lone male anchor on the Big Three evening broadcasts. Gibson, who joined ABC as a Capitol Hill reporter in 1975, never expected to preside over the network's flagship news program. He was nearing the twilight of his career when a chain of unexpected developments--Peter Jennings' death in 2005, the head injury Bob Woodruff sustained in Iraq in 2006 and Elizabeth Vargas' pregnancy later that year--thrust...
Shaquille O'Neal can do anything, as long as that thing is telling people he can do anything. On ABC's Shaq Vs., he challenges Super Bowl champ Ben Roethlisberger to a football game; baseball's home-run leader, Albert Pujols, to a batting contest; and gold medalists Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh to beach volleyball. He insists he's the greatest athlete in the world, even though the only thing he beats them at is trash-talking. O'Neal plays sports the way George W. Bush fights wars...
...embarrassed for the chamber and a Congress I love. It demeaned the institution." - Vice President Joe Biden (ABC News, Sept...
...fact, it's smaller meetings like the one Obama had with Nelson and his comrades that are most crucial for getting a bill passed. Obama admitted in a prespeech interview with ABC that he made the mistake of keeping a distance from Congress because he didn't want to "step on any toes." Shoring up moderate Dems is a beginning; he must also work to garner support across the aisle, where Maine's Olympia Snowe is currently considered the most likely convert. During the summer of discontent, the White House stopped reaching out to some key potential votes: the other...