Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Through his publicist, Reubens denied the accusation, but that little detail hardly registered among the seismic aftershocks of the original arrest. Reubens' mug shots made the front pages; heavy psychological hitters like Dr. Lee Salk and Dr. Joyce Brothers were enlisted to advise parents on what to tell the kids. The radio and TV airwaves were suddenly alive with Pee-wee jokes (His favorite baseball team? The Montreal Expos. His next television project? A remake of Diff'rent Strokes). CBS yanked the five remaining repeat episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse, and the Disney-MGM Studios pulled a two- minute...
Name a well-publicized episode over the past six years, and Auletta supplies the kind of detail that sources offer only when they know their accounts will not blow up in their faces in the next day's papers. What led to NBC News president Larry Grossman's downfall? Auletta traces it partly to a disastrous dinner party that Grossman gave on the night of the sixth game of the Mets-Red Sox World Series. (General Electric chairman Jack Welch, a rabid Red Sox fan, wanted to watch the game.) Why did Dan Rather walk off the set in September...
...fight to gain control of the CBS board, ABC News president Roone Arledge's battle to keep 20/20 on Thursdays at 10 p.m. -- was once a hot topic in media circles. Today they seem more like questions for a 1980s edition of Trivial Pursuit. In his zest for detail, Auletta trudges dutifully through events that are now just so much TV-industry ephemera...
...Vietnam protests to exercise tapes. She also manages to collect a series of husbands and lovers, most notably movie executive Jack Markel, who has all the Hollywood requisites: he is 30 years older, married, with strong ties to the Mob. David Freeman's pop tragedy contains snippets of biographical detail from the lives of Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley Temple, Jane Fonda and Natalie Wood. You've read the movies. Now see the book...
...Liaison, the REAGAN ADMINISTRATION approved Israeli arms shipments to Tehran for use against Iraq in 1981, long before the Iran-contra affair. Authors Andrew and Leslie Cockburn say the transfers were part of a strategy to head off Soviet influence in the gulf region. The book also describes in detail Operation KK Mountain, in which the CIA secretly paid Israel as much as $20 million annually throughout the 1960s to operate as its surrogate in the Third World. Security sources also told the writers that the Israelis have placed remote-controlled nuclear devices in the Golan Heights to deter...