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...even the more passive folks, sitting in their living room in front of that new magic gadget, got a world view. ABC's weekend movie slot was frequently filled with British product; I keenly recall an airing of the 1949 "Blue Lagoon," with 20-year-old Jean Simmons as the most thrilling mermaid. The Sunday afternoon show "Omnibus" presented classical concerts, up-and-coming comic talents (Mike Nichols and Elaine May) and foreign films, including the U.S. premiere of Laurence Olivier's "Richard...
...being catty. After the somewhat shamefaced presentations of NBC and ABC, here finally was a major network with something to really be happy about. Thanks to "Survivor," the network has not only handed Matthew Perry and Lisa Kudrow's butts to them, but it's become, in the repeated words of the execs on stage at Carnegie Hall, "younger and more affluent." In other words, more successful by the same standards that, a couple years ago, the network with the oldest audience in network TV said were bogus and unfair. Back then, at the home of Dick Van Dyke...
...perhaps the most important development of the upfronts so far, however, after disappointing setbacks at the NBC and ABC post-presentation parties, the soiree CBS put on for advertisers did, in fact, finally have the little chicken kabobs, grilled crisp outside yet moist inside. It's that attention to the little details that makes a season...
...unlikely that America?s thirst for vengeance will be sated by scientific theory. We are, as a nation, very much in favor of treating child criminals as adults - a recent ABC news poll showed 55 percent of us believe the crime, not the perpetrator?s age, should be the determining factor in sentencing...
...Tomorrow: The WB and ABC...