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...CASE OF ANCHOR ENVY...
...anyway, especially if he decides to make a difference to the Cable News Network. A few days after the ceremony, the New York Times reported that CNN had offered Brokaw, 57, a $7 million-a-year gig. That's $3 million or $4 million more than the anchor is making now, and Brokaw's NBC contract expires Aug. 30. But outlandish sums often crop up in print at negotiation time. It's easy to make an offer but hard to make a deal...
...expansion will counter yes, Budapest, and cite the greater potential cost of not expanding. They will remember that the U.S. raced home too quickly from Europe after World War I and had to return, at much greater cost, to fight World War II. They will explain how enlargement will anchor the U.S. in Europe, and trumpet that last week's agreement with Moscow was neither a sop nor an insult but an opportunity Russia should seize. And they will be right...
Astronauts aren't the only ones who can have a bumpy ride on re-entry. JERRY SPRINGER, who was a popular local news anchor and mayor of Cincinnati before wading into the quagmire of daily talk shows, is attempting to return to news. He has been asked by the NBC affiliate in Chicago to do commentary. But to the two news anchors, sharing a show with the unabashed chronicler of America's most tawdry domestic dramas was like being asked to drink battery acid. On Thursday night, Carol Marin resigned on the air. "This isn't about one television newscast...
Cartoon directors are kids at heart, and the Warner aces (Jones, Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett) were brilliant kids, all in their 20s or early 30s, when they created Porky, Daffy and Bugs. Freleng was the anchor, making crisp vaudeville comedies. Clampett bent his stories and pummeled his characters into manic, surreal, endless inventive farce; his great period (1942-46) deserves a book of its own. Jones' films were about people--all right, barnyard critters, but human withal--who endured life's vithithitudes (as Daffy would say) with amazing grace and Charlie Chaplin's physical...