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...longtime voice of ABC's Monday Night Football, Frank Gifford, weren't married to an equally famous and famously sunshiny wife, then his assignation with another woman in a New York City hotel room might not have been that big a deal. But because his wife is talk-show host Kathie Lee Gifford, some juicy supermarket produce called the Globe made a reported $75,000 deal with temptress Suzen Johnson to get the goods on Kathie Lee's sportscaster husband...
...then vowed to continue working the N.B.A. play-offs for NBC. In attendance were his four children, one of whom is also a sportscaster (New York Rangers play-by-play man Kenny Albert), as well as Marv's new fiance, independent television producer Heather Faulkner. As for Gifford, an ABC spokesman said, "We're not going to discuss Frank's private life." ABC may, however, want to discuss the 66-year-old former football star's future. A broadcaster's connection to the audience is based on trust, and neither Albert nor Gifford will ever seem the same...
Network programming chiefs typically are glib, self-assured guys who can rattle on about demographics or development deals even when the sky is falling. ABC Entertainment president Jamie Tarses, by contrast, looked a little battered during an interview last week, taking long, contemplative pauses before answering even seemingly simple questions. There was the weight of the world in those pauses--or, just as burdensome, the weight of a relentless Hollywood lobbying campaign against her, a stream of rumors that after a season of dismal ratings, she'll soon...
...been stressful," Tarses acknowledged, scrunched into a leather chair behind the desk in her spartan temporary office at ABC headquarters in New York City. After a siege of near all-nighters to finalize the fall schedule, the fine-boned, soft-spoken programmer was clearly tired, not to say beleaguered. "I don't want to seem self-pitying. But it seems to me that rarely has a week gone by since I've taken the job that I haven't been attacked for one thing or another somewhere in the press. There are a lot of people bent on seeing...
...paraphrase Willie Sutton, that's where the opposite sex is. The question is, How much can--or should--an employer try to control it? There has to be a stricter standard in the life-and-death military, but something is out of kilter when two married executives at ABC have an affair and one gets promoted to president of ABC News, while Lieut. Flinn, who had an affair with a civilian she initially didn't know was married, faced dishonorable discharge and 9 1/2 years in prison. Does it make sense to throw 65,000 young women together with several...