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...BROKAW All set to helm Interview of the Century with O.J., he ends up with Cancellation of the Century...
...night--sparked more frenzied anticipation than anything since ...well, since the announcement of the verdict in his double-murder trial one week earlier. This time, however, the suspense culminated in a gigantic letdown. On Wednesday morning, less than eight hours before he was scheduled to be questioned by Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, Simpson canceled...
...first interview largely at the urging of entertainment president Don Ohlmeyer, a friend of Simpson's who had visited him regularly in jail. NBC News president Andrew Lack worked out ground rules for the interview with Simpson--no questions were to be off limits--and picked Couric and Brokaw to do the questioning. One passed-over aspirant for the plum assignment, Bryant Gumbel (Couric's Today co-anchor and another friend of Simpson's), took the rejection hard; he didn't show up at work the rest of the week...
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. When the Republican Party planned its 10-candidate presidential showdown in New Hampsire, which will be carried live on CNN, who knew that O.J. Simpson would be talking to Brokaw and Couric at the same time? The CNN show starts at 8pm ET and runs to 9:30pm. Not much chance viewers will stick around. Day of Judgment: Photographs from the Simpson Verdict
...certainly is getting good practice. Starting this Friday, 800,000 copies of his much anticipated autobiography, My American Journey, will start landing in bookstores. Meanwhile, Powell embarks on a 23-city, 20-day publicity blitz, including TV interviews with Barbara Walters, Larry King, Jay Leno and Tom Brokaw, that promises to be the D-day of author tours. Then, as he tells TIME in this week's interview, his first to appear since his retirement in 1993, "I'll sit down with my family and those people who provide me with advice and counsel and some very dear friends...