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Entertainment Tonight is a weeknightly half-hour show that breathlessly celebrates celebrity, giddily charting the ephemeral highs and lows of movies, music and television. Produced by Paramount Television Domestic Distribution in Los Angeles and delivered by satellite to 134 local stations, E.T. (not the extraterrestrial), with its weekly audience of nearly 21 million, is the hottest, and certainly the fastest-paced, syndicated show on television. Since its rickety start in 1981, the show has become slickly produced and expertly edited. It is about as light, nourishing and addictive as the popcorn one hungers for while watching...
...product flow is no less staggering than the live tours: two Menudo movies (which only a mother or a fan could love), ten record albums (total sales: 3 million) and four years of weekly half-hour TV programs. Remember Monkees lunch boxes? A Menudo school bag sells for $16. Menudo, in fact, may be the Strawberry Shortcake of Latin American product licensing. There are Menudo T shirts and sun visors, wristwatches and jeans...
...quickly that the image still fits the way in which his schedule continually takes care of itself. "The job is one in which you are overwhelmed by events continually. Much of your time is spent muddling though, doing the best you can," he says. "Fourteen people a day, a half-hour--that's perhaps the most difficult aspect of it. I'm not going to miss...
...conference is planned as a follow-up on a January 1980 IOP event--also co-sponsored by The Times--entitled "Nominating a President: The Process and the Press." The program brought together 30 journalists and politicians and resulted in a book and a series of five half-hour television discussions on Boston's WGBH...
...half-hour show, which will begin filming next fall pending government funding, will feature interviews with prominent figures in a wide variety of fields, "probing moral and ethical questions from a practical point of view," according to the show's executive producer...