Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over at ABC, the day was equally nascent when Correspondent Janice Simpson interviewed Good Morning America's David Hartman. For a box that accompanies the story, Correspondent Mary Cronin tracked Hartman through a day in the life of a morning-show host, an ordeal that begins at 3:45 a.m. Cronin also interviewed Host Tom Brokaw and the rest of the dawn patrol at NBC'S Today show. One frustrating morning she awoke especially early to catch a ride into the studio in Jane Pauley's limousine. It was sent to the wrong address. Pauley...
...David Hartman, ABC'S Mr. Aw Shucks, an ex-TV actor (Lucas Tanner) with the gentle smile and careworn countenance of a kindly uncle...
...Barbara Walters had the same job before she jumped to ABC in 1976. As a reward for her a.m. heroics, Pauley already has been given the anchor of NBC's Sunday evening news, and Brokaw is a leading candidate to replace Chancellor when he leaves. Hartman is expected to ask for a chance to do more prime-time work when his contract expires next year...
Good Morning America, on the other hand, is like an afternoon tabloid, more frivolous but also less pretentious. The basic set is a mock suburban home, with a cozy living room and a working kitchen (for Pinkham and Child). If Brokaw is as brisk as a barrister, the easygoing Hartman, 45, is as relaxed as the family doctor, someone whom you would not mind telling about all those aches and pains. He also has a female subaltern, Joan Lunden, 30, a wholesome-looking type who is given little scope on the show, perhaps wisely. Her style of interviewing...
...retitled Morning with Charles Kuralt, is the classiest of the three, bearing more resemblance to a magazine than a newspaper. The set, yellow and white, is on separate platforms, and Kuralt sits on an artist's stool, with an easel containing his notes off to the side. Like Hartman, he has a relaxed, down-home manner; but he also comes across as someone who actually enjoys thinking, the barefoot boy with a paperback copy of Homer sticking out of his back pocket...