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Nancy Love (Genevieve Bujold) conducts a radio call-in show, from which issues a stream of psychobabble to cool her listeners' sundry sexual fevers. She is suffering near-terminal repression, which lifts after a oneafternoon stand with Mickey...
...first for a match, next a cigarette, then $5. He pulls a gun, shoots them all, two in the back. He runs away, then nine days later turns himself in. The town goes wild for him. Dubbed the subway vigilante, he is the talk, the toast, of every radio call-in show from Miami to San Diego. The outpouring of popular support becomes a story in itself. Mayors, Governors and editorialists express dismay...
...exchange is typical for Hotline, the latest hit show among the call-in homework programs that are bringing aid and comfort to homework sufferers around the nation. Hotline is aired from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday by the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its targets are math and English for junior high schoolers. "That's where the homework really starts to pile up for the first time," says Producer Bob Greene. Launched as a pilot last spring, Hotline drew 3,500 calls in twelve weeks, including a daily ring from Avery Smith...
Many hardball hosts maintain that they alone touch the real concerns of their audience. Warren Freiberg, a conservative who conducts a call-in show on WLNR in Lansing, 111., says that his straight talk is welcomed by people who are unmoved by "the educated media, the Walter Cronkites and Dan Rathers of the world." But other broadcasters disagree...
Says Larry King, a Washington-based radio host whose nightly network call-in show reaches 3.5 million people nation wide: "Their purpose is simply to enrage." Miami's Sandy Payton, whose WIOD show is less acerbic than those of competitors like Kane, believes that their appeal is strictly a matter of sensationalism: "Listening to these hosts is no different from slowing down to watch an auto accident...