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...Since Hartman was the key to that success, the network even tried to clone him. NBC executives quietly approached another actor, Alan Alda of MASH, to see if he would like to replace Brokaw. Alda was flattered but said...
...Hartman's moment of truth came when he was discussing a complicated legal case with a woman lawyer. In the middle of her explanation, she fainted. Cool as always, Hartman signaled for a commercial, checked her pulse, and lifted her onto a couch. Another kind of frisson came when he was interviewing Muham mad Ali, and Ali called him "the Great White Dope" - to the secret delight of some on the staff...
...David Hartman, as for all those bleary-eyed stars of the morning, last Tuesday may be taken as a typical day. He gets up at 3:45 a.m., showers, dresses and drinks a pint of orange juice. At 4:30 an ABC limousine picks him up for the 30-minute ride from his home in suburban Westchester County to the Good Morning America studio on Manhattan's West 66th Street. Since seconds are precious at that dark hour, Hartman uses the 30 minutes to munch an apple and a banana and read-or "zap through," as he says...
Arriving at the studio at 5, Hartman sits down with Sonja Selby-Wright, one of Good Morning's three rotating producers, and goes over the day's schedule: an interview with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, a peek at the world's costliest diamond and a look at new and unusual watches. When Selby-Wright leaves, Hartman settles down in his second-floor dressing room to read background material, stopping now and then to sip coffee and take a bite or two of a bagel. To keep everyone awake, ABC has placed coffee urns, cartons of orange...
...unusual guests-Begin and the giant sparkler-guards are everywhere: a dozen from the U.S. Secret Service, half a dozen from Israel's Shin Bet and another half a dozen from Cartier, which is showing off the diamond as big as the Ritz. Shortly before 7, Hartman comes downstairs, dressed in typically nondescript gray tweed jacket, dark trousers and brown loafers; he does not fancy himself a clotheshorse. He is told that Steve Bell, Good Morning's Washington-based newscaster, wants to talk with him, and Hartman takes the call on the set. Bell tells him that Israeli...