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...feet of film and 275,000 still photographs that are being catalogued. On display is the letter that Cartoonist Garry Trudeau wrote to Ron Nessen, Ford's press secretary, asking for accreditation on the Chinese trip. Trudeau took along a Frisbee, which he and NBC's Tom Brokaw tossed back and forth on the Great Wall until Susan Ford suggested it was not dignified. From such original research Trudeau conceived the Chinese adventures of "Uncle Duke" in Doonesbury...
...called family atmosphere of TV's morning shows [Dec. 1] seems to be right out of Dallas, with staff members throwing darts at a picture of Rona Barrett, describing Jane Pauley's work as erratic and Tom Brokaw as frosty, and delighting when Muhammad Ali calls Hartman "the Great White Dope...
...disagree with your assessment of the Today staff. Jane Pauley is an excellent news reader and an adept interviewer who asks questions I like answered. Tom Brokaw is far from frosty. He's competent and likable...
Then there is the coronary-inducing aggravation: things do go bump in the morning. Guests, for instance, say the darndest things at that hour. Brokaw re members talking to Gore Vidal just before they went on the air and telling him that he wanted to talk about politics, not bisexuality, one of Vidal's favorite topics. Vidal politely listened, but when the red light blinked on, sweetly inquired: "Now why is it that we cannot talk about bisexuality...
Worse than the unguided guest is one who cannot talk at all. Brokaw also recalls with a shudder .ininterview with an Italian film director who suddenly froze and reverted to his native tongue. Brokaw had, as usual, done his homework and answered his own questions while the film director nodded "Si, si, si. "CBS'S Schieffer had a some what similar experience. He was interviewing a Soviet emigree who suddenly began arguing with her translator. For three minutes the two argued in Russian until the matter was resolved...