Word: brokaws
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...gave some people the idea that he had missed his true calling: anchorman! He had it all: the authority and irony, the requisite twinkle. That craggy charisma would have sat smartly behind a Formica desk. But then news imitated art: the networks created their own lower-wattage Redfords in Brokaw, Jennings, Stone Phillips. And now, when Redford finally gets into a TV-news movie, he's nearly 60, too old to begin a career as anchor. His job in Up Close and Personal is to mentor the promising rookie played by Michelle Pfeiffer...
...told. I'd say it's a B or a B-plus performance." Yet his attorneys reportedly tried to talk Simpson out of doing the interview (as they did three months ago, when he agreed to and later backed out of an interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric). Their worry is that any contradictions between comments by Simpson on the tape and those he has made previously can be used against him in the civil case scheduled to begin in early April. But Simpson brushed aside their warnings, saying he needed the money. According to one insider...
...also offended many both in and out of NOW. Bruce told the Los Angeles Times, for instance, that her message about spousal abuse offered "a needed break from all that talk of racism." During a protest outside NBC studios in Burbank, just before Simpson canceled his interview with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, she said of Simpson: "You are not welcome here; you are not welcome in our country; you are not welcome in our culture"--a statement that some listeners interpreted as "Go back to Africa...
...teenagers in the country. That is roughly five times the number of teens who watch newscasts on ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN combined. And though the mix of MTV-style graphics, rock music and on-air pop quizzes is more sprightly than anything Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw delivers, the newscast is hardly dumbed down...
Just hours before he was scheduled to be questioned by NBC's Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, O.J. Simpson pulled out of a one-hour, no-holds-barred TV interview, the buildup for which had attracted nationwide curiosity as well as furor. The reason for Simpson's balk: his lawyers told him his answers might complicate his defense in the civil suits brought by the Brown and Goldman families. Simpson followed his NBC no-show with a phone call to the New York Times to declare, "I am an innocent man." Simpson also told the paper that he had been...