Word: cbs
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...Hanssen's lawyers at Plato Cacheris' Washington firm, meanwhile, are mulling whether to go after fired defense team psychiatrist Aren Salerian on ethical violations for talking to the BBC, CBS and other media about the case, passing along embarrassing details such as Hanssen's alleged fascination with pornography, and Bonnie Hanssen's suspicions that her husband was spying as early as 1979. In addition to violating doctor-patient privilege, Hanssen's lawyers believe Salerian, as a member of the defense team, violated attorney-client privilege...
...January 1971, when CARROLL O'CONNOR first introduced Archie Bunker to the American TV audience, CBS braced itself for a flood of protest calls. Instead, as TIME wrote 1 1/2 years later, the show sparked "a new era of candor...
...When we see a helicopter land on the roof of the CBS building and a man in a dark suit from New York get out," jokes one of Lear's writers, "we know we're in censorship trouble." Network censors are rarely as melodramatic as that. Usually they are a task force of some two dozen men and women, each of whom oversees a portion of a network's total programming (including commercials); they review scripts and sit in on tapings and screenings, questioning anything that seems to conflict with federal broadcasting law or their network's standards of taste...
...real. "Family," particularly, has at least one big crisis a season. Two winters ago, it was over the episode about homosexuality that President Nixon so disliked; last winter, a show on which Son-in-Law Mike's exam jitters made him sexually impotent. Smaller crises abound, as when CBS succeeded in knocking out the word "Mafia" from one script, the term smart-ass" from another...
...Quite a while, no doubt. Already in the works is a one-hour special on Duke Ellington. Lear is, preparing yet another sitcom series for a possible January debut on CBS, this one about a black family named Jones. "Sanford isn't trying to reflect real ghetto life," Lear maintains. "Compared with ghetto dwellers, those two men live very, very well. What I would like to do is a real black-ghetto family show...