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Later that night, at a party at the home of NBC Correspondent Richard Valeriani, 49, ABC's David Brinkley, 61, who ended a 37-year NBC career last September in a dispute with the abrasive Small, regaled the guests with a mock press release about the ousting of the executive. Describing the bitter and raucous incidents as "excessive," Small's embarrassed successor, Reuven Frank, 61, said last week: "It was as though somebody had uncorked something...
...California to pose for a recent Los Angeles magazine cover story on diet and fitness, Christie Brinkley gave in to the unthinkable and stuffed her splendid 5-ft. 8-in. frame with Mexican food. Christie paid for the binge-she found herself a wee bit more pneumatic in her mauve, Lycra-stretch jumpsuit. Not to worry. Included in the Los Angeles story was a collection of hip-slimming homilies to which Christie subscribes. Most of the diet tips were standard. Avoid mayonnaise, butter, margarine, oil and salad dressings, drink lots of water and no more than two glasses of wine...
That quiet Sunday television interlude before the onslaught of football, a time given over to the earnest sobriety of Washington interviews with public figures, has been broken at last. In place of ABC's Issues and Answers, there now looms the hour-long This Week with David Brinkley, the creation of ABC's Roone Arledge, who also invented Monday Night Football. After a wobbly start, the Brinkley show looks like a true innovation in television journalism. In its eerie interview by satellite with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and then in its commentary afterward-which matched Gaddafi word...
Back now to a Washington described by Brinkley as "something like an armed camp" (shots of snipers on the White House roof). Usually Brinkley's panel of journalists-now reduced to a manageable three-interview the guest, then discuss the news among themselves. In place of the distant Gaddafi, they now turned to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, acting Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Commitee, who came on strong: "Right off, David, the President of the United States is not a liar. The dictator of Libya is a liar." There was "concrete evidence" that since 1977 Gaddafi "targeted" U.S. officials...
...Brinkley has been seeking a panel of interviewers who would "set off rockets," and he may be getting close. For this, chemistry is all-the chemistry that produced Huntley-Brinkley, or on football Mondays offers the ill-assorted, oddly compatible Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and Dandy Don Meredith. Perhaps Brinkley and Arledge hoped for someone as abrasive as Cosell in choosing Ben Bradley, the executive editor of the Washington Post...