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...hear of the deals Paley botched, the employees he treated badly and the hit CBS shows, like All in the Family and The Dukes of Hazzard, that he initially opposed. Even in victory -- like his famous talent raids of the late 1940s, when CBS wooed Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen and other big stars away from NBC -- Paley seems curiously passive and remote. (His role is described in phrases like "Paley agreed instantly" and "Paley loved the idea.") Smith's workmanlike prose fails to give her main character the fascination of either his triumphs or his flaws. It is, perhaps...
...mother was known on marquees around the world as Debbie Reynolds, the queen of spunky beauty from the '50s. Dad was Cool Daddy-o singer Eddie Fisher. "I was born of a golden womb," says Carrie. People like Lucille Ball and Jimmy Stewart used to come for dinner. Candice Bergen was always at their house because her best friend was the family baby-sitter. Unfortunately, father Eddie just barely had time to bequeath his eyes and voice to Carrie and sire her brother Todd before he gallivanted off with famous film fatale Elizabeth Taylor. The whole affair ended badly...
...other actors, a motley crew culled from the director's pet sources -- kitsch movies of the '50s, tabloid headlines of the '70s and '80s -- who could have met nowhere in the world but on a John Waters set. Surfside heartthrob Troy Donahue. Media minx Joey Heatherton. Ever fashionable Polly Bergen. Andy Warhol icon Joe Dallesandro. Punk pioneer Iggy Pop. Legendary bad actress Susan Tyrrell. Norman Mailer's son Stephen. As a smarmily sadistic guard, Willem Dafoe. The parents of slutty Wanda (Traci Lords) are assayed by Ozzie and Harriet's own David Nelson and, in her movie debut, Patricia Hearst...
That was the assignment handed to 300 seventh- through tenth-graders in the Northern Valley schools of Bergen County, N.J., last week by their teachers as part of a six-year-old campaign to show talented youngsters how to solve complex problems. The sources for the students' stories were 14 speakers from local universities, government agencies, a law firm and the press, who talked about everything from the latest developments in medicine and genetics to demographic trends and family issues. After a day of listening and note- taking, the students had six hours to turn the information into issues...
Control tower officials said the plane may have lost power in one of its four engines. Bergen, the FAA spokesperson, said the agency had reports the plane lost a second engine as well...