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Burt Reynolds' rise has come from unveiling more than his anatomy. Until two years ago, he says, "I was the tight, constipated actor. I just stood there with my No. 3 virile look and never took chances." Then he drew a guest spot on the Johnny Carson show and revealed an unexpected penchant for putdowns, mostly of himself ("My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave"). After that, Reynolds was invited to air his gift of glib on a flock of other talk shows and comedy hours. After seeing...
...gave him his first job in TV (as a writer on Paar's late-night talk show) could be mutually damaging. Moreover, ABC seems to be violating a basic tenet of TV-that viewers are creatures of habit. The competition from NBC's Johnny Carson and CBS's late movies promises to be at least as formidable for the network's round robin as it was for Cavett alone...
More recently, Hanoi's charges have been endorsed by several prominent individuals, whose accusations Washington found difficult to ignore. Though claiming to have no special information, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, appealed to President Nixon to stop bombing the dikes. Last week he was joined by United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, who had just returned from a trip to Moscow. Announcing that he had received word of U.S. damage to the dikes through "private unofficial channels," Waldheim declared that he was "deeply concerned" and pleaded for an end to "this kind...
...members of the 1,200 families that the A.C. Nielsen Co., the organization that charts TV ratings, has selected as a representative national sample. By Nielsen's rating, which is probably as accurate as any such poll, Cavett still runs a poor third to Johnny Carson on NBC and network movies on CBS, drawing 13% of the country's insomniac audience-or about 2,170,000 households-compared with 32% for Carson and 27% for the movies. But his audience has grown substantially since ABC'S April ultimatum. In a few cities, in fact, he seems...
What ABC and its affiliates seem to overlook is that not only Cavett and Nielsen but the whole ratings system is once again on trial. Cavett's literate charm could probably never match the broad appeal of Carson's accomplished vaudeville or woo away the diehard movie buffs. But should he have to? If he cannot, should the more than 3,200,-000 viewers who want his brand of intelligent alternative programming be summarily disfranchised...