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...range more widely. John McLaughlin, host of the syndicated McLaughlin Group, will do an hour-long talk show with such guests as Malcolm Forbes, Henry Kissinger and Phil Donahue. Dick Cavett has been signed as host of another nightly interview program; his first week's guests will include Jimmy Breslin and Linda Ellerbee. Also on the after-business-hours schedule: Smart Money, a consumer show with husband-wife authors Ken and Daria Dolan as hosts, and Media Beat, a program on media business. Weekend fare will go even further afield, including a Sunday-morning children's show...
...Stauber 44 24 13 37 44 107 Dan Keczmer 44 2 26 28 33 66 Brett Barnett 30 15 11 26 44 104 Karl Johnston 41 7 19 26 15 38 Jeff Napierala 41 16 9 25 9 18 Jeff Jablonski 43 11 12 23 19 4 6 Tim Breslin 39 7 13 20 11 30 Dean Dyer 40 4 11 15 22 52 Mark Astley 40 3 11 14 11 12 Rene Chapdelaine 44 4 8 12 20 5 8 Paul Constantin 27 5 5 10 0 0 Sandy Moger 27 4 6 10 14 28 Doug Laprade...
After witnessing the 1968 campaign, columnist jimmy Breslin was angry. His assessment of that election applies equally well to this one. One need only substitute "George Bush" for "Richard Nixon...
Cosgrove and his giant sidekick are farcical figures meant to illustrate the failures of both church and state when dealing with morality and poverty. The novel's principal setting is Howard Beach, a working-class section of the borough of Queens, described a bit too graphically by Breslin as a "white finger of land that sticks into Jamaica Bay by Kennedy Airport." Across a field of tall bulrushes is East New York, a Third World of crime, drugs and hunger...
...journalist, Breslin gave Queens a picturesque notoriety long before All in the Family folksied up the place for national consumption. He Got Hungry pushes the Archie Bunker mentality over the edge of realism into absurdity. Howard Beach mobsters like the Chief and Frankie Five Hundred seem to be overdone holdovers from Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1969). The kinks in New York's welfare bureaucracy are authentic and darkly humorous, but the black characters are not developed beyond their jive. Father D'Arcy's mission is unfocused, his misadventures a blur, and his conversion from guardian...