Word: bumpier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even at CBS, where prime-time news has had a bumpier road (48 Hours, now in its 11th season, is still plugging along, but Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel has fizzled in the ratings), programmers are toying with an alluring but risky idea: expanding the venerated 60 Minutes to a second night. The chief stumbling block is the people behind 60 Minutes, who fear diluting the show. "We think it's a terrible idea," says executive producer Don Hewitt. "[Network programmers] hope to persuade us. But they haven...
...transition from Harvard undergraduate to single mother was a bit bumpier for Ocon. The months that followed her return to southern California sent her on a rollercoaster ride of the unexpected: the joys of motherhood, a bitter breakup and a custody battle that made national headlines...
...unleashed a flurry of four-letter words and spent the next few months trying to repair the damage. Meanwhile, her bumpy movie career--which has wavered between big roles in bad films (Shanghai Surprise) and smaller parts in an occasional decent one (A League of Their Own)--got even bumpier. In 1993 she starred in Body of Evidence, a steamy courtroom drama that bombed with critics and audiences. She complains that the script was changed so that her character, a sex-obsessed vixen on trial for murder, was killed in the end. "In all the movies...
...definitely been a bumpier and more prolonged negotiation than others," she said. "But I think we did the right thing to settle the rest of the contract and continue negotiating on these issues...
Chung's road to the finals was much bumpier than Majmudar's. In his semi-final match against Princeton's Pat Sweeney, Chung outlasted Sweeney in the marathon...