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...Juice. With security provided by the Nation of Islam, the night was one of image repair for America's most dubiously innocent man. Attorney F. Lee Bailey, fresh from the slammer, pronounced his own jail stay "not so great." Simpson pal and chauffeur A.C. Cowlings seemed proud when a guest praised his driving. Outside Simpson's gates protesters clamored, but inside, Simpson charmed the antiviolence folks. If you can't beat them, have them over for dinner...
...duties involve more in the way of clerical work than was originally advertised, but my days are rarely boring. The pace is often dizzying, accelerating as deadlines loom and crises arise. At 11 a.m., a guest will be added--setting the office into a researching frenzy--only to be dropped at noon. In the morning, I typically spend about half my time tracking down articles, scanning headlines for interesting stories, photocopying, filing, faxing and messengering...
Research usually entails pulling together information about a guest for that day, using recent newspaper and magazine articles, books etc. to compose a 4-5 page synopsis of who they are, why they are coming on and what questions "C.R." (as he is known by his very young 10-person staff) might want to ask them...
...time, she can't help getting a little ahead of herself. "Afterward I'm looking forward to meeting the athletes." Suddenly, her eyes widen. "Maybe Hakeem Olajuwon!" Having mastered the television camera while shooting national ads for various Olympic sponsors, she entertains a few fantasies: a guest appearance on Friends. Better yet, a bit part in a Brad Pitt movie. (Blush.) Then she catches herself. "I don't have time now," she says firmly. "Maybe later...
...Belushi's death--especially when the only show-biz "friend" of his the show managed to book was Milton Berle. Koppel's choice for the all-time worst Nightline is a 1985 interview with Le Duc Tho, in which the former North Vietnamese negotiator rattled on interminably (as fellow guest Henry Kissinger fumed) because his interpreter refused to convey Koppel's desperate efforts to stop him. A rare guest who Koppel says got the better of him: Mandy Grunwald, who spoke for candidate Bill Clinton when Gennifer Flowers first surfaced. Grunwald blasted Nightline for covering the story at all. "Mandy...