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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Thursday's hour-long show was divided into three 15 minute segments for each guest. Norcott began the show by asking each guest a few questions and then opened the floor up to the audience. According to Norcott, an amusing assortment of comments and questions followed...
President Neil L. Rudenstine is slated to be the first guest, appearing shortly after the 7 a.m. start of the two hour show. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons '67 will also appear, in addition to the Harvard Krokodiloes and an array of undergraduates...
...DOORBELL RINGS, AND ONE BY one, an all-star guest list of TV celebrities troop into the house: Katie Couric, Joan Lunden, Paula Zahn, Faith Daniels, Mary Alice Williams. The scene plays like one of those old I Love Lucy episodes, with the Ricardos in Hollywood. (Look -- it's William Holden! And Harpo Marx!) Actually, it is the most star-studded baby shower in TV history. All these real-life TV newswomen have come to pay tribute to their most famous fictional colleague: Murphy Brown...
...show's habit of mingling real-life references (and occasional guest appearances) with its fictional TV news crew is carried to a new level in the baby-shower episode. The visiting TV newswomen do surprisingly well in their cameo appearances, delivering quips about such things as balancing career and motherhood. (Says Williams: "I once asked Garrick Utley if he had to make a boom-boom.") But the encounter simply lends a bogus aura of credibility to a show that seems phony at its soul. And why do all the guests at the shower come from the soft-news world...
...frosh suffered from alcohol poisoning after he "went into a party somewhere in Matthews" late Friday night, said Levitt, who refused to indentify his guest...