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Competition for the journalist's berth is fierce. Although ASJMC would not reveal the names of any applicants, those vying to become the first reporter in space were rumored to include NBC Anchorman Tom Brokaw, The Right Stuff Author Tom Wolfe and ABC White House Correspondent Sam Donaldson. Former CBS Anchorman and veteran Space Reporter Walter Cronkite proudly announced that he was in the running. To be considered, applicants must be U.S. citizens and have five or more years of full-time professional experience reporting contemporary events in print or on television or radio. There is no age limit...
...that is, and maybe even in another life. On location in the Peruvian Andes, Shirley MacLaine, 51, found herself and her script embroiled in an intercultural tussle involving extraterrestrials and ancient monuments. (No, Steven Spielberg is not the producer.) The project is Out on a Limb, a five-hour ABC mini-series for November based on her 1983 autobiography of the same title. Citing passages where MacLaine suggests that Machu Picchu and the giant desert drawings known as the Nazca Lines were made by visitors from outer space rather than by the Peruvians, the National Institute of Culture accused...
...Video Limousines and costly mini-series are out, and staff cutbacks are in, as ABC's new owners embark on a belt-tightening campaign...
...barriers to a genuine draft of lacocca. Their cause is complicated by a tradition that says drafts rarely succeed and by election laws in some states that work against getting undeclared and unwilling candidates on the ballot. Nevertheless, the fledgling committee could have reason to dream: a Washington Post-ABC News poll earlier this year had lacocca trailing behind only Colorado Senator Gary Hart and New York Governor Mario Cuomo, among other likely Democratic candidates. CRIME Deadly Gunk From el Norte...
Among the Kennedy family members and celebrities disgorged at the church by a fleet of limousines and buses were the bride's uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, her aunt Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, TV Actress Susan Saint James, I CBS's 60 Minutes Correspondent Diane Sawyer, NBC Newscaster Tom Brokaw, ABC Interviewer Barbara Walters, Columnist Art Buchwald and Singer Andy Williams. Flattopped Actress Grace Jones and Pop Artist Andy Warhol showed up late...