Word: burnette
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aired a libel suit by Carol Burnett against the National Enquirer and a slander suit by California Physician Carl Galloway against CBS's 60 Minutes, but this is the first time it has aired a criminal case. Said CNN President Burt Reinhardt: "The network is devoted to allowing viewers to make their own judgments, rather than assessing news events for them." The intense attention to the gang-rape trial is a subject for debate, however, even within the staff. Says one writer: "Let's face it, they are running the trial because of its sexy nature...
Reported by John Burnett and David DeVoss/ Guatemala City
...some firms, the bonuses are surprisingly sweeping and generous. The Chicago-based Leo Burnett advertising agency gave all 1,600 of its U.S. employees a "profit-participation cash bonus." Said one Burnett executive: "It was a good deal better than last year's. I haven't detected a single sign of disappointment." At Silicon Valley's Hewlett-Packard, supervisors ceremoniously handed out checks to 62,500 employees for two weeks' extra pay, just in time for Christmas shopping. To qualify, employees needed at least six months on the job. The total bonus came to $49 million...
...films, two aging men without wives mope about the past; in the other, two aging women without husbands mope about the future. The characters all need rescuing. But forget the stories, here is a pair of pairs! Larry and Jackie (Olivier and Gleason), Liz and Carol (Taylor and Burnett). And what is unusual, apart from seeing such faces in made-for-cable movies, is that the predictable casting is reversed...
...Between Friends, which will appear on HBO six times between Sept. 11 and Sept. 30, the affection between Taylor and Burnett rings true, at least initially. Burnett plays a real estate agent who has lost her spouse and her moral compass in a suburban landscape of manicured lawns and unfaithful husbands. She embraces promiscuity as a form of psychic masochism. Her new friend, Deborah Shapiro, is a wealthy divorcee with an enormous empty house that she calls "my Tara." Trained only "to walk down stairs with panache," she is no longer a Jewish American princess but a full-fledged dowager...