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DIED. RALPH EDWARDS, 92, radio and TV pioneer dubbed the "godfather" of reality programming; in Los Angeles. As a staff announcer for CBS radio, he pitched a show around a childhood game that in 1940 gave rise to the decades-long hit Truth or Consequences. But he was most famous for another radio show he brought to TV, in 1952. On This Is Your Life, each program surprised a guest with live reminiscences from loved ones and shrewdly capitalized on the new medium's capacity for intimacy, chronicling riveting, often weepy stories of the famous (Buster Keaton, Bob Hope, Marilyn...
Compounding the stress, the TIME story led to a cascade of media inquiries. When a CBS Early Show producer called, the situation imploded. King claims he did not want any more interviews in the house. "I think [Jan and Yolanda] were looking for glory," he says. The Meehan-Hoos say just the opposite. "You know how some people need attention all the time? He was one of those people," says...
Minority women fill the executive suites as never before. An Asian-American woman, Andrea Jung, is CEO of Avon. Nina Tassler, a Latina, is president of CBS Entertainment. And Condoleezza Rice, who is African American, has a job just a few steps removed from President. Although their numbers at the top are still tiny--at 429 large companies surveyed by research and advisory group Catalyst in 2003, 1.6% of corporate officers were minority women--more women of an ethnic or racial minority hold senior-level jobs than ever before...
...James Stewart Polshek: Ed Sullivan Theater Renovation If you're paying one person $42 million to host America's best late-night talk show, why skimp on the studio? Within weeks of announcing David Letterman's arrival early this year, CBS bought the old vaudeville theater, thus committing itself to a crazy, six-month renovation schedule. Polshek, an unerring and seriously underrated architect, not only rewired and replumbed the place and removed the cat-size rats and the running stream from the basement, but he also peeled away 57-year-old walls to discover the theater's original four-story...
...Minutes . . . 25 Years (CBS) The anniversaries keep piling up, but this time Mike, Morley and the rest of the gang did more than the obligatory clip job. They gave us a piquant peek at the show's foibles as well as its triumphs. They reminded us too that for all ^ their many imitators, the old codgers still do it best...