Word: cbs
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...proved irresistible. Rosalind Russell memorably played it on film in 1962. A 1974 Broadway revival brought Angela Lansbury a Tony award, and a 1989 revival did the same for Tyne Daly. Gypsy has never been better told nor Momma Rose more arrestingly played, however, than in the 3-hr. CBS television version to air this Sunday starring Bette Midler. If there is ever again to be a mass audience for filmed musicals more complex and less percussive than MTV videos, this is the vehicle to blaze the path...
Former Drug Enforcement Administration chief Robert Bonner suggested two weeks ago on CBS's 60 Minutes that CIA agents might be criminally liable for failing to stop a Venezuelan official from running drugs to the U.S. CIA officials then tried to persuade the DEA to disavow Bonners remarks, but current DEA officials agree with him. The CIA pleaded that Congress might cut funding for the CIA's covert counternarcotics program, but this argument fell on deaf ears; where covert narcotics operations are concerned, the DEA calls the CIA "amateurs...
...ethnic consumers, advertisers have been relying less on traditional forms of mass marketing, such as network television and general- circulation magazines, and more on specialized media, like cable TV and ethnic- or subject-oriented magazines. Newspaper advertising is down 5% since 1990, for instance, while ad spending at ABC, CBS and NBC increased barely 1%. The transition has forced mass-marketing firms to learn new tricks, such as ZIP-code targeting and more sophisticated uses of direct mail...
Asian faces are as prominent in the mass media today as they were all but invisible in the past. Besides Connie Chung, who co-anchors the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, Asian-American journalists seem to be fixtures in almost every big-city local-news telecast. The time is long gone when white Americans would expect visages with a Far Eastern cast to belong to restaurant or laundry operators who confused their rs and ls: younger-generation Asians in California often speak like Valley Girls and hum tunes from...
...Paula Poundstone Show, ABC's new Saturday-night comedy hour, has been canceled after just two abysmally rated episodes. It's the second fastest ax of the new season; CBS earlier junked South of Sunset after only one outing...