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...brisk, not too smarmy recap of the day's entertainment news, the E! cable channel's little noticed E! News Daily gives the most bang for the buck. The show last Tuesday, for example, covered everything important that its rivals did (the death of songwriter Jule Styne, Katie Couric's interview with O.J. Simpson's grown children). But it had several other newsy tidbits too, from Elizabeth Montgomery's suit for $5 million in residuals from Bewitched to a piece on the pollution problems caused by Woodstock. E! of course has plenty of publicity fluff elsewhere; it devotes whole shows...
...interview is the first stop on her five-city U.S. tour to promote Zlata's Diary, an account of her family's life in the besieged Bosnian capital. The book has become an international best seller since its initial publication last fall, and when Zlata sits down with Katie Couric, it is immediately clear she has become adept at answering painful questions about her tragically abbreviated girlhood...
...glamorous place to be." Notes NBC anchor Tom Brokaw: "It's getting harder and harder to find people coming into the business who want to cover daily news. They all want to be magazine reporters." Indeed they do: Brokaw himself will be a co-anchor (with Katie Couric) of NBC's new show...
...says she has known the Quayles for "only" 23 years, "but the generator blew, and they had to frantically call New York. Luckily, my husband Homer was waiting on me, and he hot-wired the truck and we went on at 7:08." And the interview? "Well, Katie ((Couric)) didn't ask any of the questions they told me she would...
...former Johnny Carson cronies Doc Severinsen and Ed McMahon ("two of the biggest loads on two feet"). At her press conference last spring, Bill Clinton's alleged ex-girlfriend Gennifer Flowers was taken aback when a Stern reporter asked whether Clinton used a condom. When Today's Katie Couric opened the phone lines during a June appearance by Ross Perot, a Stern shill got through with a bogus question about the radio host's sexual organ...