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...racial stereotyping. Brunvand, a professor of English at the University of Utah, sees little humor or truth in the 1980 rumor that Southeast Asian immigrants in California were capturing and eating pets. Yet many people want to believe such tales. "I could run ads with the Super Bowl broadcast saying that the latest hot legends are pure folklore," says Brunvand, "and still some people . . . would pass on the story itself rather than the expose...
...been having its financial troubles of late. Profits for the Broadcast Group fell nearly 12% in 1985 from the previous year, and the outlook for 1986 is equally dim. With CBS-TV's weakening ratings and an industry-wide slump in ad revenues, company officials have projected a "substantial reduction in network profits" for the second half of this year...
Sauter defends the network's move. "As we attempted to make the broadcast more competitive," he said, "it became apparent that we were moving further and further away from the roots of the news division and what the news division does well." The network is also trying to placate affiliate stations, which have grown impatient with CBS's inability to deliver a competitive morning show. One major outlet, Atlanta's WAGA-TV, has already announced that it will cancel the CBS Morning News this fall. Other stations are threatening to follow suit...
...problems: all familiar themes on the opera stage, but usually performed by a cast of thousands. Last week Comic Robin Williams, 34, filled the cavernous stage of New York City's Metropolitan Opera House all by himself for two sold-out shows that were taped by HBO for a broadcast special. As usual, his seemingly extemporaneous material was achingly funny, mostly ribald and partly tailored to his surroundings: "Imagine Pavarotti at the Improv (comedy club)," he mused. Saluting the opera house itself, Williams called its huge crystal chandeliers "earrings from the Imelda Marcos collection...
...more than 18 months the campaign has raged amid a blizzard of contending hype, hoopla and hard sell. Tons of campaign literature have been mailed, endless hours of television commercials broadcast, hundreds of millions of dollars of campaign funds spent. Accusations of lying, ballot stealing and electoral tampering have abounded. But already last week, well before the Sept. 1 deadline when the vast majority of some 95 million eligible telephone subscribers are to choose a supplier of long-distance telephone services, the outcome of the Great Long-Distance Telephone Election was already clear. The most elaborate competitive exercise...