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...Finally, CBS is doing the right thing about "The Reagans." Under pressure the network has decided not to air the two-part biopic, steering it instead to the cable outlet Showtime (like CBS, owned by Viacom). But just because a far smaller audience will now see the film (Showtime draws maybe a million viewers on a top night) doesn?t make this story any more accurate. According to the screenplay for ?The Reagans,? my father is a homophobic Bible-thumper who loudly insisted that his son wasn?t gay when Ron took up ballet, and who in a particularly scathing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'The Reagans,' From One of Them | 11/4/2003 | See Source »

Despite a muscle tear a couple of years ago that curtailed his tennis playing, Walter Cronkite, who turns 87 next week, is still going strong. The former CBS anchor now writes a syndicated newspaper column, in which he has criticized the war in Iraq and other Bush Administration policies. TIME's Richard Zoglin talked with the man once dubbed the most trusted in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Walter Cronkite | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

Throughout religious history, getting spoken to by God has not been a sign of fun times ahead. Abraham had to agree to kill his son. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. On CBS's Joan of Arcadia (Fridays, 8 p.m. E.T.), God appears to a teenage girl and commands her ... to take AP chemistry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Losing God's Religion | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

Ratings for the broadcast networks have taken another tumble this fall--down an overall 3% from last season. And it's not just new shows that are having trouble; a surprising number of old favorites have slipped badly. Frasier has dropped 21%; Will & Grace is down 16%; and even CBS's hot CSI fell 11%. Nor can it all be blamed on the unusually high ratings for the baseball play-offs. In times like these, TV fans are reminded of the famous Happy Days episode in which Fonzie jumped over a shark while water skiing in the Pacific Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Shark Bites | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND Ratings: [down] 9% Ray's spine has continued to shrink, Debra has got nastier, and Robert has found a wife. Despite a sameness to the episodes, the CBS hit comedy is holding up. [1 SHARK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Shark Bites | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

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