Word: bradleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Zirinsky bobs through the crowd searching out camera angles. The pair have prepared a 55-second summary of the day's platform fights. While Bradley is on live, Zirinsky stands guard, holding delegates at bay and deflecting a woman who nearly walks into the shot...
...Director James Brooks needed a model for Holly Hunter's role in Broadcast News, he chose the 36-year-old dynamo. Last week Zirinsky was -- where else? -- in the heat of the action down on the Democratic Convention floor plotting stories, gathering information and arranging interviews with Correspondent Ed Bradley. A night in the real life of a floor producer...
...Dressing Room 5 of the Omni Coliseum, Zirinsky and Bradley don their battle gear: battery packs around their waists, headsets and microphones. They have spent the evening prowling the floor stalking stories. Bradley agreed to cover the convention only on condition that Zirinsky be his producer. "She's got a good nose for news," he says, "and she's fun to be with...
...Back on the floor, Bradley is swamped by autograph seekers, but Zirinsky runs interference. "It's like traveling with the Dalai Lama," she jokes. She spots Senator Gary Hart and asks Floor Producer Andrew Heyward, high above the convention floor in the CBS spotters' booth, if he wants a quick interview. He is not interested...
Despite his protestations, it could be hard for Bradley, who has the inside- Washington foreign and economic policy experience and star quality that Dukakis lacks, to spurn the call of his party, should it come. Pulled off the bench reluctantly, he can play the exciting savior. The main problem the 6-ft. 5-in. former New York Knicks forward would face is finding a way not to make the 5-ft. 8-in. Dukakis look like the point guard he once...