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...show's only professional actor is Doug Llewelyn, 42, a onetime Washington, D.C., news anchorman and a former pitchman for Sears. He does the introductions, occasionally polls the studio audience for its reaction, and conducts post-trial interviews in a mock-marble hallway. Aside from such embellishments, and the musical hype, the unrehearsed program steers clear of game-show razzmatazz, and the result is a reasonably authentic legal confrontation. James Nelson, presiding judge of Los Angeles municipal court, believes after screening several episodes that the program could generate grass-roots support for the judicial system and induce viewers...
Prince Charles and Lady Diana granted one personal interview before the wedding, to Thames Television's Andrew Gardner and BBC's Angela Rippon, in which they revealed little more than the fact that they were "grateful for all those kind wishes." NBC Anchorman John Chancellor observed that "correspondents tend to tiptoe through interviews with royalty in this country. That's at the Palace's request." The U.S. networks tried to make up for their lack of access to the royal couple by hiring commentators such as Actors Robert Morley (ABC) and Peter Ustinov (NBC), Interviewer David...
...took the splendor and pageantry of the royal wedding to match, and at last to overcome, the kind of coverage Britain was getting last week on American television. The anchorman heavies (Rather, Chancellor, Walters, Brokaw) arrived early to cover the preparations, but soon wearied of the familiar banalities -curbside interviews with the first people to stake out viewing spots, guardsmen shining their boots, the trafficking in gimcrack souvenirs. They had come to cover a spectacle but got themselves diverted by the earthier scent of real news. It was point and counterpoint all week...
...week-old strike of municipal workers in San Jose, Calif, (pop. 650,000), is not hamstringing the city. The money involved is relatively meager, less than a baseball star or network-news anchorman can make in a year. But the dispute is an important one. At issue: equal pay for comparable work, especially for women in low-salary, female-dominated fields...
...second hand of a clock, superimposed on the television screen and accompanied by tick-tock music, swept its way around the dial, as though a corny game show were taking place. Then, precisely at 10 o'clock, as the polls closed throughout the country, Anchorman Haim Yavin carefully read out on the state-run network the projections he had been handed half an hour earlier, which were compiled from a meticulously conducted poll of voters as they left their polling stations. The immediate TV predictions: Labor would get 48 or 49 seats, Likud 47, and the other parties would...