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...reality programming" like Real People, Games People Play and Speak Up America. It may be a dubious TV genre-mixing 60 Minutes with The Gong Show-but it is one unaffected by the strike. With such shows, plus the World Series, Magazine with David Brinkley, Disney's Wonderful World and new episodes of three old series, NBC can boast that through the end of October, it will air 75% new programming. The capricious god who filched the Olympics from NBC may now have decided to smile on Silverman, who last week was awarded an 18-month extension...
...could duplicate Brinkley. No one can even write for him. He insists on doing his own research and his own scripts. His delivery is the same on-camera or off. Says he: "I can't be anything but myself. If I start trying to act, I am lost right away. I can't talk any way but the way I talk. I am physically unable to read anything written by someone else." The results of this inability have been remarkable. Says Executive Producer Shad Northshield at rival CBS: "Brinkley is the best writer developed...
...also a good poker player and considers himself a pretty fair carpenter: "The last thing I built was an elaborate dollhouse for my daughter Alexis. It belongs in a museum, if I do say so myself." Brinkley would rather spend an afternoon in a hardware store than on the Washington celebrity circuit. He is one of the few major stars in TV news who still negotiate their own salaries; his is now close to $700,000 a year, including expenses...
These days Brinkley is trying to finish a book about Washington, D.C., during World War II, with the aid of his son Alan, 30, a teacher at Harvard and M.I.T. His other children: Joel, 28, a reporter at the Louisville Courier-Journal, who this year won a Pulitzer Prize for a series on Cambodian refugees; John, 24, a student at American University...
...Brinkley, not eager to uproot his life in Washington with Second Wife Susan plans to commute to New York for a year and see if things work out. It is a big if that has network executives wondering: Can Brinkley, the son of a Wilmington, N.C. railway clerk, outdraw that rich, bad bunch from Dallas? Prime time will tell-or, as Edward R. Murrow, the granddaddy of the laconic news style, used to say, "Good night and good luck...