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...raised eyebrow." But, he adds, commentary is self-defeating if the viewer says, "Now that I know how it came out, I know how they chose their pictures." With all three networks gussying up, or glitching up, their news, they need to reconsider whether analysis becomes opinionated show biz instead of a momentary oasis of reflective comment...
...glad to know that Linda Ronstadt is not pigeon-toed in real life [March 22], because she is one of the very few show biz types that I would love to bring home to Mom. Not only has she survived the rock-'n'-roll treadmill with amazing grace but she has remained completely human under the media's celebrity microscope. If she finds moviemaking not quite comfortable, she can rest assured that we will all settle for just her music...
Simple or sentimental, the responses to the 1981 Academy Awards proved that even in a crass and fickle realm like Hollywood, one certitude endures: audiences, including show-biz insiders, still love to be moved and to have their spirits lifted. - - By Gerald Gerald Clarke...
...Today and ABC's Good Morning America. Produced by former GMA Soft-News Whiz George Merlis, the new Morning will feature Bill Kurtis, a peppy, popular newsman imported from Chicago, in place of Charles Kuralt, as well as such other contributors as ex-GMA Show-Biz Correspondent Pat Collins and regular business, science and medicine reporters. Merlis denies that Morning will be a confection like GMA. Explains a CBS spokesman: "We will interview celebrities only if they are in the news. For instance, if Larry Hagman were made head of the American Heart Association, then we'd interview...
...Assante) and hires the rebel leader's old Harvard roommate to do the job. This character (Ray Sharkey) pretends to go along with the scheme because he is a victim both of existential ennui and of a sudden obsessional letch for the financier's wife. Much show-biz Big Think ensues, but it is not quite stupid enough to be truly funny. Interestingly, there are several nice, quirky moments of domestic comedy involving the protagonist, his grandfather and his live-in lady in an innocent but funny menage a trois. The old gent is played by the great...