Word: cbs
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...wishy-washiness might be excusable if Sterling did not commit the first sin of politics and TV: it's dull, with all of West Wing's sanctimony and none of its humor and character. On the other hand, CBS's Queens Supreme (Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T.), starring former West Wing regular Oliver Platt as a colorful, politically embattled judge, has humor and character to a fault. No lack of excitement here: in the three episodes sent to critics, Platt has a gun pointed at him three times and sings show tunes twice. All this action and some snappy dialogue bring...
...camera crew from the CBS television news program “60 Minutes” followed Summers around while he talked and signed dollar bills, attracting a crowd of students in search of their own few moments of network-TV stardom...
...CBS was nowhere to be found...
...from 2001, remixed several different ways. This time last year, we were still asking if and how 9/11 would change pop culture. In 2002 we got some answers. Defying warnings of tragedy fatigue, books about 9/11 (Bush at War, Let's Roll, The Cell) dominated the best-seller lists. CBS drew some 39 million viewers for 9/11, a tear-jerking documentary shot inside the World Trade Center on the day of the attacks. All broadcast and many cable networks tossed out their normal programming schedules (and their advertising) on the anniversary, as if supersaturating the airwaves--turning Sept. 11 into...
DIED. DOLLY DAWN, 86, one of the first big-band vocalists to take center stage; in Englewood, N.J. A key influence on singers such as Ella Fitzgerald, she was best known for appearances on CBS Radio--under the tag line Dance with Romance!--in the 1930s...