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...three-man teams lurk outside the Oval Office so much that White House officials barely notice them after a while. They look like any network news crew--a sound man, maybe a camerawoman and a guy toting a portable light--but they don't work for CBS or NBC. Instead they toil long hours behind the scenes, roaming from the East Room to the West Wing, waiting for Bill Clinton to arrive, shake hands and say a few words. They turn their tapes over to the White House Communications Office, which uses the videos for p.r., as favors for Administration...
Sources: NBC, CBS, IRS, The Physician and Sportsmedicine, College Board...
First, let it be known that Bryant Gumbel doesn't spend every hour of the workday in the nattiest Joseph Abboud suit. On a midsummer morning at CBS's Manhattan studios, he is wearing slightly wrinkled cotton trousers and a golf shirt as he heads an editorial meeting for his new weekly prime-time newsmagazine show, Public Eye with Bryant Gumbel (CBS, Wednesdays...
...live element will be, though, is questionable. And other than that feature, Public Eye does not appear to be different from its peers. The show's producers and regular correspondents (among them, veteran Bernard Goldberg and the young, powder blue-shoe wearing Alison Stewart) come mostly from other CBS newsmagazines, such as 48 Hours and the network's mercifully short-lived Coast to Coast. Taped segments will cover the usual mix of hard and soft news, with stories ranging from Bosnian war criminals to incompetent telephone operators. Hidden-camera reports, producers say, will occasionally be used in the broadcast...
...plans for Public Eye may seem formulaic, but just how stressful launching such a venture can be was obvious two days after Gumbel played host to the Emmys in Los Angeles and was back on the East Coast in a CBS wardrobe room getting prepped for a photo shoot. As network staff members dropped by to compliment him on his performance, he was yukking it up with the hair and makeup women, telling them how he had thought about helping Gillian Anderson on stage because she looked so immobile in her tight dress. But his spirits quickly shifted, when...