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Investors like Jimmy Goldsmith, the banker-owner of the French magazine L'Express, helped Frost meet his $2.5 million in production costs. Frost will retain about half of all profits...
While advertising for the controversial shows sold slowly in the U.S., foreign networks were much less hesitant. The rights to foreign broadcasts alone have netted Frost $1 million so far, putting the production into the black. Final profits are expected to exceed $2 million. This means Nixon may pick up $1 million or more for undergoing his grilling by Frost. It might seem, with this on top of his memoir proceeds, that abuse of office pays. Without Watergate, Nixon's views would hardly command such sums...
...been jocularly rumored in Britain that David Paradine Frost, now 38, aims to be Prime Minister by his 50th birthday. "Not so," swears Producer-Director Ned Sherrin, who gave Frost his first big job on TV. "David would quite like to be Prime Minister. And the Queen. And the Archbishop of Canterbury. But being only one would limit him a bit." Indeed. It might even be argued that if all three offices could be made into one, with David as all-purpose Augustus, Britannia would in short order rule the air waves and carve out a whole new empire based...
...David Frost, the deferential, attentive, calculating, smily, terribly appreciative interviewer and talk-show "host" is an imposing entertainer-imperator. His far-flung enterprises range from packaging TV shows to film production and pop concerts, from book publishing to an investment company...
...cathode-ray persona Frost seems a modest chap, he sometimes seems?in Churchillian parlance?to have much to be modest about. He is not an intellectual, a scholar or a wit, a raconteur or a connoisseur, a trained reporter, a facile writer or even a modest warbler. However, even his fiercest foes concede that Frost is an artful, intelligent questioner whose disarming manner often coaxes confidences from a subject who might simply dry up under more abrasive handling. On The David Frost Show, which ran for three years in the U.S. (it went...