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...interview, photographer David Burnett got Gorbachev, on the spur of the moment, to pose by the window. Late for his next meeting, the Soviet leader would not keep still. "He began to walk away after I had taken only four shots," Burnett says. But he was able to take several dozen pictures, including the one on the opening pages of our special section...
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE CAMPAIGN, MOMMY? Now You Know: The Personal Odyssey of Kitty Dukakis will not be published until September, but a number of Hollywood people, including Carol Burnett, have already inquired about movie or TV rights. One of Kitty's friends describes the memoir as "an unbelievably frank and honest personal story." The author discusses her struggles with drug and alcohol dependency, the Dukakises' prickly relationship with Jesse Jackson, and her sense of desolation at the loss of the 1988 election. The book does not disclose the couple's future plans, but there is speculation that...
Four meet records were set this weekend in the 200, 400, 5000 and the mile relay. James Jett of West Virginia set the record in the 200-meter run, Howard Burnett of N.Y. Tech is in the books for 400 meters, Steve Brown of Penn State beat the old record by six seconds in the 5000-meter race and East Carolina set the new mark in the mile...
From top, left to right: (c) 1963 Bob Jackson, Sam Shere -- UPI/Bettmann, Bob Landry -- LIFE, NEIL ARMSTRONG -- NASA, JOE ROSENTHAL -- AP, ALFRED EISENSTAEDT -- LIFE, ED CLARK -- LIFE, DAVID BURNETT -- CONTACT PRESS IMAGES, J.R. EYERMAN -- LIFE, DOROTHEA LANGE -- THE OAKLAND MUSEUM, THE CITY OF OAKLAND, JOSEPH LOUW -- LIFE
...those days, SNL writers would sometimes reject comic ideas with the put- down "That's Carol Burnett." It was their code language for material that was too broad, too mainstream. Saturday Night Live may not quite have become the Carol Burnett Show of the '80s, but complacency has crept in. Perhaps it was inevitable. TV anniversaries, after all, serve another important function. They remind us that shows grow...