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Koppel, 43, has established himself as the thinking person's anchor on ABC's late-evening news show Nightline, which since March 1980 has built an average audience ranging from 5.1 million to 6.8 million viewers for discussions of issues as sensitive as child abuse and as complex as nuclear war games. Unlike the early-evening anchors, who help select stories but have little role in the coverage of most of them, Koppel controls almost every word that is spoken during Nightline. Most of each show is live interviews conducted by him. Often he must interweave five...
Last year Koppel was sounded out about, and rejected, the network's most coveted news job, anchor of World News Tonight. The post, vacated by the death of Frank Reynolds, went to Peter Jennings. Although the job might have boosted his reported $700,000 salary, Koppel says he never wanted it. When ABC News President Roone Arledge telephoned to ask if he was interested, Koppel said, "Let me make it easier for you," and opted to stay on Nightline. His choice makes sense to TV journalists. Says CBS Morning News Anchor Diane Sawyer: "The format of Nightline...
...recent years, Koppel has seemed enough of a boy wonder to achieve just such impossibilities. He gets all but universal praise from journalists and from officials he has interviewed, for both skill and affability. "In all the years I've known Ted," says ABC Morning News Anchor Steve Bell, "I've yet to detect the flaw...
There was a fellow named Harrison who led the U.S. Ping Pong team to China back in 1971, and Connie Chung, the NBC anchor whose parents and four sisters were born in China and who bravely tried her Chinese on Zhao, who bravely professed understanding. Ruth Graham, Billy's beautiful wife, sat on the President's left. Billy was on duty, making arrangements in Europe for his crusade, the only thing that could keep him away. The devil and Richard Nixon...
...quite matched by his supporting cast. As Annie (a role Meryl Streep declined), Close, in maroon hair and Anthea Sylbert's rummage-sale wardrobe, has the reckless high spirits of an aging cheerleader when she should be the anchor to Henry's fervor. Like the rest of the cast except for the deft, sexy Gallagher, Close serves the script honorably rather than meeting it eye to eye. Nonetheless, The Real Thing is likely to make a star too of Close (who played Sarah in The Big Chill). Even in previews, Close relates, she and Irons were getting...