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Uptight is hardly a word to apply to Zucker these days. Try upbeat. After three years of soap-opera travails and ratings woes, NBC's morning show has almost miraculously righted itself. Katie Couric, who became co-anchor a year ago, has managed to make people forget the short, unhappy tenure of Deborah Norville. Bryant Gumbel, the show's sometimes testy on-air leader for the past decade, is smiling more. And the audience is filing back into the auditorium. Though Good Morning America retains a narrow lead in the ratings, Today scored a weekly win last month...
...Katie Couric's. At first a Today show fill-in for wicked stepsister Deborah Norville, Couric stayed on to shine -- the understudy turned star -- and brought her perky common sense to the job of grilling politicians, tasting new recipes and coping with Bryant Gumbel...
...Katie Couric's. At first a Today show fill-in for wicked stepsister Deborah Norville, Couric stayed on to shine -- the understudy turned star -- and brought her perky common sense to the job of grilling politicians, tasting new recipes and coping with Bryant Gumbel...
...return was ballyhooed more fervently than Gorbachev's comeback from the Crimea, but KATIE COURIC proved herself up to the hype. When the perky co-host of NBC'S Today show resumed her place on the couch Monday after a well- publicized two-month maternity leave, she did it all. Doubled forward with interest, like the most attentive date you've ever had, she quizzed Katharine Hepburn about her early days as an actress. Eyes narrowing ever so slightly in concern, she probed Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney about whether the U.S. still needs the B-2 bomber. Zoning...