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Almost nothing about Reagan the Leader is dismissible: his height, his straight back, his hair. In every scene played out in Geneva he had a slight physical advantage. "But it was never threatening," said one ambassador who was there. "Reagan radiated good will." ABC's David Hartman, the host of Good Morning, America and a former film actor himself, watched the Geneva script unwind on his monitors and said, "The President always played it so they came to him. That's the first rule of the stage...
...quite different for American teenagers. Last summer, when the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists unveiled a new public service announcement designed to combat teenage pregnancy, all three major TV networks balked. The reason: the announcement included the word contraceptives. These are the same networks that, as one ABC official put it, routinely depict intercourse to "the point of physical motion under the covers of a bed." Network officials have since relented, but the offending word has been dropped...
...Sport Some occasions of joy, some of wistfulness, and one that is both: Howard Cosell leaves ABC...
...smooth, the trip for many voyagers was as hair-raising as a Snake River rafting expedition. In 1985 a parade of slumps, scandals, panics and just plain goofs rocked the business world. All the while, an unprecedented wave of acquisitions was swallowing up such well-known corporate names as ABC, RCA, Nabisco, General Foods and Revlon...
...Dancing began as a British hit with the grammatically undiagrammable title Strictly Come Dancing. It has since been exported worldwide. In Australia, it even provided some image rehab for white-power politician Pauline Hanson, who danced on a stage rather than on the aspirations of Aborigines and immigrants. But ABC passed on the idea--"It's a hard sell on paper," admits executive producer Conrad Green--before producers persuaded reality-division head Andrea Wong to watch a tape with her staff. "I thought it was a big risk," she says. "But we couldn't take our eyes...