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...Brinkley 's new show goes up against Dallas, TV's fastest draw...
When David Brinkley, 60, left his co-anchor post at NBC Nightly News last fall for the pastures of commentary, industry observers speculated that perhaps the network was tiring of his detached, low-key delivery. Brinkley was not sorry to leave after 24 years: "I had been doing it longer than anyone dead or alive," he says. "And I didn't feel that I was doing anything that required any great skill. It was too easy...
...assignment will not be so easy. On Sept. 26, he and a hand-picked crew of correspondents-Garrick Utley, Douglas Kiker, Betsy Aaron and Jack Perkins-will go up against CBS's runaway hit Dallas. The vehicle: NBC's Magazine with David Brinkley. Replacing NBC's failed Prime Time, the show will have a new format and a hefty weekly budget of $300,000. Brinkley plans on something different from the tick-tock style of CBS's 60 Minutes and the razzmatazz of ABC's 20/20, but he is rather vague when he talks about...
This kind of dry riposte is the Brinkley trademark. Faced with the task of making news during a lull in last month's Democratic Convention, Brinkley drolly noted the "rampant inactivity on the floor." The convention was the 14th that he has covered since 1956, when he and Chet Huntley launched their evening news program. Before long, an estimated 20 million people were watching Huntley-Brinkley and their innovative presentation. Recalls Brinkley: "We sort of set the form of TV news as it persists to this day. A story or two, or three; somebody setting them up and then...
...Casablancas stable. The most telling deserter from Wilhelmina was Patti Hansen, who disports her form in Calvin Klein jeans and has just finished acting in Peter Bogdanovich's film They All Laughed. In all, some 20 Ford stars-led by sultry, pouty Janice Dickinson and Christie Brinkley, the Chanel No. 19 girl-and a dozen young "boppers" from other agencies also joined John. (Brinkley ended up back with Ford last month.) Considering that an agency makes commissions of 10% to 20% on a star model's $200,000-plus annual income, such defections are costly not only...