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Jimmy Kimmel Live - The ABC late-night host's answer to E!'s Jackson re-enactments? The trial dramatized by a cast of puppies as the pop singer and his legal team...
...wrote Humorist Art Buchwald 19 years ago, during the last big wave of corporate mergers. These days the prospect that he wryly foresaw seems considerably less farfetched. In recent months such household names as ABC, TWA and Nabisco have agreed to sell out to other firms and cease to be independent enterprises. They will follow Bendix, Gulf Oil, Conoco and other giants that have already surrendered their separate identities. Since 1980, no fewer than 62 members of the FORTUNE 500 list of industrial behemoths have been swallowed by other companies...
...generating speed. But the tight old stadium, with its narrow six-lane oval walled in by chanting crowds of passionately knowledgeable Oslo running fans, seems to elicit special heroics from competitors. The athletes feel, in the words of retired U.S. Runner Marty Liquori, who commented on the race for ABC-TV, as though they are being pushed along "in a tunnel of sound." No fewer than 42 world records had been set there since 1924. The meet two weekends ago added three more in what Track Writer Kenny Moore of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED called "the most magnificent evening of distance running...
When Thomas and ABC Correspondent Sam Donaldson insisted on publicly ferreting out the reasons for the lack of candor, Speakes could not very well explain what had gone on behind the scenes. "Why did you handle it that way?" asked Thomas. "Well, I don't think that's any of your business," replied Speakes. "It is our business," said Donaldson. "If you had two grains of salt for sense," said Speakes, "you could figure it out." Though Speakes claims that he intentionally lashes back at reporters in order to keep combative questioners at bay, the reporters' criticism stung...
Hometown is shaping up as this summer's Call to Glory. Like ABC's critically applauded family drama, introduced last August, Hometown is hoping to build an audience during the last weeks of summer; a spot is already reserved for it on the fall schedule. The trick will be to avoid the fate of Call to Glory, which started strongly but gradually withered under the fall competition. Like any other series looking to survive beyond the summer, Hometown must prove it is a show for all seasons. --By Richard Zoglin. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles