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...know sensationalism is back in style when Geraldo Rivera, network TV's original advocacy reporter, is riding high. After getting dumped from ABC's 20/20 in 1985, Rivera started an improbable comeback by opening Al Capone's long-sealed vault on live TV. The cupboard was bare, but ratings were huge, and Rivera followed up with melodramatic specials on such topics as drugs and death row, as well as with a daytime talk show. This week he returns to network TV with a two-hour special on NBC, Devil Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground. The sometimes graphic show dwells...
...York Daily News or even the National Enquirer, alongside World News Tonight and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. "I see myself as an alternative vision," says Rivera, "not one dictated by the suits on Sixth Avenue ((Manhattan's network row))." Although his antics often seem self-aggrandizing and overwrought, Geraldo finds the TV universe is big enough...
Before a national TV audience, Rita Moreno tells Geraldo Rivera that her dream as an actress is to play a character rather like herself: "I speak English perfectly well . . . I'm not dying from poverty . . . I want to play that kind of Hispanic woman, which is to say, an American citizen." This is an actress talking; these are show-biz pieties. But Moreno expresses as well a general Hispanic-American predicament. Hispanics want to belong to America without betraying the past. Yet we fear losing ground in any negotiation with America. Our fear, most of all, is of losing...
...well as objects from the Titanic that have not been seen since the "unsinkable" liner foundered on its maiden voyage in 1912, at a cost of 1,500 lives. The program's climax: the opening of the safe, a stunt that will inevitably be compared with TV Correspondent Geraldo Rivera's much ridiculed 1986 on-camera opening of Al Capone's empty "vault" in Chicago (a show also produced by Westgate). After filing unsuccessfully to block the broadcast, Florida Investor Michael Harris and four coplaintiffs are suing Westgate and other investors for $300 million, claiming they were cheated...
Midmorning break, outside a class on business writing: " and I said, 'Tom, you've got to stop writing your memos like Geraldo Rivera reporting the news, 'cause people are taking it personally...