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Sometimes, however, it seems that what Good Morning has done away with is not sandpaper but grit, and guests know that they will rarely be asked an embarrassing question. Talking to Ingrid Bergman about her new book, for instance, Hartman ever so delicately moved in to pop the big one: Is she cured of cancer? "Readers want to know how you are now," he said. "Thank you," she replied. "I feel very well indeed...
...start in January. Rushnell, who took over hi May 1978, brags that he cleared out nearly a third of the show's employees, the malcontents, as he calls them. "Now," he says, sounding like ABC'S commissar in charge, "the staff is 100% committed to support David Hartman and the rest of the family...
...that order. Hartman's ego is reported to be enormous. No one is allowed to stand in his light. Sandy Hill, Lunden's energetic predecessor, was much admired by the Good Morning staff but got along with Hartman so poorly that she hardly talked to him on camera, finally leaving to become the show's roving correspondent. Lunden, by contrast, is no threat to anybody. "The reason that she's risen is that she's a pretty girl with an empty head who doesn't bother anybody," is the bitter comment...
Still, perhaps Hartman may be forgiven his high opinion of himself-and his reported $680,-000-a-year salary. He made the show a success, and he still works 14 or 15 hours a day, preparing for interviews and deciding who and what will be on the show. Though he has no experience in journalism, Hartman, who earned a degree in economics from Duke, has a characteristic required of any good journalist: curiosity. "His appeal is that he seems genuinely interested in the world," says his new competitor, Kuralt. "He is quite good at what he does...
However big his ego, moreover, Hartman does not let guests or viewers see it. "I'm no star, but David went out of his way to be friendly to me," says Dr. Robert Dupont, ex-director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "On the other hand, I did four hours of filming with Dick Cavett, and at the end of it he didn't even remember my name...