Word: hewitt
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Have we learned nothing from William Shatner? Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton and Jennifer Love Hewitt have all earnestly recorded songs for the sound tracks of their new movies...
...course, companies aren't doing this because radicals have stormed the boardrooms. A shortage of workers is driving many of the changes. "We've not faced this sort of talent-critical, labor-critical problem...probably since wartime," says Don Hasbargen, a principal at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm. When as many as 190,000 computer jobs go unfilled, for instance, companies can't afford to be seen as racist, sexist--or even antiunion...
...executive producer is Jeffrey Fager, who spent five years as a producer for 60 Minutes and has been a hard-news champion as executive producer of the CBS Evening News since 1996. The new show will have an entirely separate staff, which means it won't divert resources from Hewitt's operation; yet more than half its producers have worked at 60 Minutes, which presumably means the standards (as well as the look and format) will be carried...
...Hewitt and his confreres ended their campaign against the new show after they were persuaded, as CBS News president Andrew Heyward puts it, that "the train was going to leave the station, and they better not be tied to the tracks." Heyward vows that the new show will be "committed to their values." And Fager takes pains to separate 60 Minutes II from the time-filling rivals that Hewitt railed against. "This is an opportunity to give people more high-quality broadcast journalism," Fager says. "Isn't that a good thing...
...ratings competition outside its Sunday-night haven, won't 60 Minutes II have to scramble for the same kinds of promotable stories that Dateline and 20/20 go after? "I would not like to see anything with the 60 Minutes name involved in the game of sweeps-week roulette," warns Hewitt. Will part-time stars like Rose and Rather turn out to be mere window dressing? And with only one of the four correspondents picked so far under 55 years of age (Mabrey is 42), CBS isn't exactly solving one rap against 60 Minutes: its older-skewing audience...