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ENGAGED. Christie Brinkley, 30, supermodel who parlayed her appearances in Sports Illustrated bathing-suit issues into the design of her own line of scanty swimwear; and Billy Joel, 35, Grammy-winning songwriter supreme, who wrote one of his biggest hits, Uptown Girl, for Brinkley; in Lloyd Harbor, N.Y. The marriage will be the second for both...
...disproportionate amount of forgettable words at Moscone Center last month came not from politicians but from anchormen and their in-house pundits, whose views were already wearily familiar. (Among anchormen only David Brinkley with his wry sanity brought any verbal distinction.) Politicians can be corny, boring or strident, but sometimes wholehearted, amusing or touching. They are an authentic, unpredictable slice of American life. Much of the time the networks preferred to substitute a filter of detached, bloodless and often disdainful commentary by their own people...
...behind the podium: even when standing, many of them could not see the speakers, the delegates or much of anything else except the glowing network insignia and the distant figures of CBS's Dan Rather, NBC's Tom Brokaw and ABC's Peter Jennings and David Brinkley. Said Editor Robert Maynard of the Oakland Tribune: "This is just another dramatic example that TV has completely taken over center stage in American politics...
...merchandise it. Christie Brinkley, 29, has and she does. Last year there was a striking swimsuit poster and calendar. The supermodel has also decided to take an active role in creating the clothes that she wears so well. Last week Brinkley was in Manhattan at the gala "label cutting" for her own Russ Togs line of swim and sport clothes due in department stores this fall. Wearing a man's pajama shirt and secondhand tuxedo jacket plus knit cotton pants she designed herself, Brinkley wants "to design clothes that are comfortable. These are not going to be skimpy bathing...
This evasion is irritating because Breathed often comes so close to really super humor, only to fall short at the last moment. One never forgets his short attempts the time that he was Christic Brinkley host the evening news (the voice over: "and now here's Christic with tonight's lead story on a chain-saw murder-suicide in Toledo." Milo: "Go For It!!" Christie: "Hi! Oh Gross..") Or Elvis' secret diaries, or Norma the Nuke--but one is almost always left dissatisfied. More annoying still is Breathed's attempt to pass off his lack of follow-through as creative...