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Other Old Paradigms: Fidel Castro, apartheid, the American Century, cigarette smoking, labor unions and strikes, alcohol, CBS News, charisma, knowledge (as opposed to information), blood-feud revenge, corporate loyalty and paternalism, Northern Ireland, Mario Cuomo (the politician as a Frank Capra movie) and letter writing...
...Bryant Gumbel, 41, whose self-satisfied manner many find as off-putting as Norville's plastic perfection, will remain. So will Norville, 31, who has been officially exonerated for the ratings calamity. "She's not on the way out," insists Today's executive producer, Tom Capra. "The ratings have slid because Jane left the show, not because of Deborah. Deborah's a solid journalist, and I believe the audience will like her as they are exposed to her." Garagiola, Capra maintains, will "bring out what is really going on with her." So it seems that one host has been hired...
...name your new book on the Burgess Shale fossil bed in Canada after Frank Capra's movie It's a Wonderful Life...
...executives insist that Today's ratings sag does not imply a rejection of Norville. "Whenever there's an anchor change on a broadcast, there's always a reaction," says Tom Capra, who took over as executive producer last month. "Part of the audience is happy, part of the audience is sad, and usually the ratings drop." CBS This Morning also has a new executive producer, who is expanding the show's feature and entertainment coverage; the hope is that a new co-anchor will lure viewers to sample the broadcast at a time when they might be shopping for alternatives...
...problem, alas, is that the Lincoln Memorial is not an ideal, it is a cliche. It was cliched when Frank Capra had the wide-eyed Mr. Smith prevented from seeing the corruption all around him in the Senate by being taken on a tour of the Capitol where he fawned over the same memorial. It is cliched today...