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...like Cats and Dreamgirls. Then what's he doing writing for a blue-collar tabloid? Your other co-workers are more credible. Your boss (James Farentino) seems to hate spunkiness as much as Lou Grant did. And Jo (Katey Sagal), the cynical columnist, couldn't be a better foil if she had been invented by TV comedy writers...
ADOPTED. By Victoria Valentine McMahon, 40, and Ed McMahon, 62, veteran TV announcer who is best known as Johnny Carson's chuckling foil but is also a popular presence in commercials: their first child, a girl; in New York City. Name: Katherine Mary. McMahon has four grown children from a previous marriage...
Murrow's antagonists are equally exaggerated. Coleman's Paley is a weak-willed and rather distracted chief executive, hardly the sort of man who founded and built a broadcasting empire. And Stanton, as played by John McMartin, is a cardboard corporate foil, forever jabbering about ratings, opinion polls and bottom lines. "Stanton is fascinated with numbers . . . profit statements . . . power," says Paley, trying to persuade Murrow to accept a vice-presidential position. "You know what I want? A conscience. Integrity...
...California. Says Whiting: "This complaint has caused rancor because of the insinuations. Plainly it is not true that Mr. Gallo doesn't know how to make cheese. Joseph Gallo is very much a perfectionist and was kind of hurt that he was attacked this way." AIRLINES Trying to Foil a Merger...
Eastern Airlines' labor leaders were none too pleased three months ago when their company agreed to merge with Texas Air. Reason: Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo has earned a reputation as a fierce foe of unions. Now it appears that Eastern's workers may be maneuvering to foil the deal. Union representatives have been meeting with Jay Pritzker, a Chicago financier who controls Braniff Airlines and the Hyatt hotel chain. Pritzker is said to be considering a bid for Eastern in return for wage concessions from the workers. Texas Air controls 51% of Eastern stock, but Pritzker could conceivably make...