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...format is that of a magazine show, a video descendant of the starry-eyed Hollywood "fanzines" of the 1940s and '50s. Accompanied by music that sounds like game-show themes speeded up to 78 r.p.m., the show revels in glitzy, vertigo-inducing computer graphics. Says E.T. Director Steve Hirsen, a veteran of CBS News: "We're not heavy journalists, so we have more freedom. We can use visual flips and 'up' music, which you can't use after a story on the bombing of Beirut." The rapid-fire items are introduced by Anchors Ron Hendren...
...game-show magnate and CBS-TV president Louis G Cowan Paul grew up in a totally assimilated New York home. His father read Dickens' A Christmas Carol aloud each Christmas eve and never spoke of his impoverished father Jacob Cohen, the descendant of respected Lithuanian rabbis At Choate, though, Paul encountered vicious anti-Semitism, from his peers. The experience made him piece together the memories of unexplained moments in his childhood--his father evading a question, or his mother insisting that the Holocaust gave Jews a special responsibility to fight social injustice--into a curiosity about his ancestral religion...
DIED. Paul Lynde, 55, comedian best known as a wisecracking panelist on NBC's The Hollywood Squares; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Lynde's cheerfully prissy manner and arch responses to game-show questions won him five Emmy nominations and a wide daytime following. As an actor, he played a befuddled fussbudget who delivered witticisms in the face of disaster in the stage and film versions of Bye, Bye Birdie and more than a dozen hapless Hollywood comedies...
...tacked on his locker, six MILLION BEST WISHES, it read; signed LEE AND FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS. Sutton loved to laugh and say: "Nice of their publicist to do it." One wall of the Dodger Stadium office of Tommy Lasorda, the manager who kisses and hugs his players like a game-show host, is a shrine to Frank Sinatra. What better place to hang this year's championship than in the publicists' town, right up there between the Captain and Tennille...
...onetime Washington, D.C., news anchorman and a former pitchman for Sears. He does the introductions, occasionally polls the studio audience for its reaction, and conducts post-trial interviews in a mock-marble hallway. Aside from such embellishments, and the musical hype, the unrehearsed program steers clear of game-show razzmatazz, and the result is a reasonably authentic legal confrontation. James Nelson, presiding judge of Los Angeles municipal court, believes after screening several episodes that the program could generate grass-roots support for the judicial system and induce viewers to take advantage of small-claims courts. Says Nelson...