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...importance, the Academy plans to produce its own pre-show. It's set to air live on ABC in the half hour before the main event, and the Academy has decreed that no other networks can broadcast from the red carpet during this time. Meanwhile GEENA DAVIS, who will host the pre-show, has promised not to ask arrivals about their outfits, which may leave little to talk about. "Maybe she'll ask them about algebra," muses JOAN RIVERS, who has traditionally owned that piece of airtime on the E! channel and will broadcast this year until...
June 16, 1995: It's announced that Salt Lake City has won the right to be host of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. Grumbling from press row. "Trouble ahead," says a grizzled veteran of the Games with a sigh. "Mormon morals--that'll bring 'em down...
...Angeles. The 1976 Montreal Games had dutifully lost millions of dollars, and the 1980 Moscow Games, boycotted by the U.S., didn't make a ruble. The Winter Games, always staged in nice little Currier & Ives villages, had seldom turned a profit. Therefore, naturally, no sane city wanted to play host to the Games. Then, in 1984, Peter Ueberroth and his Los Angeles organizing committee put on a splashy, TV-friendly, penny-squeezing Olympics that netted $220 million. Suddenly suitors were turning handsprings before the I.O.C., each performing citius, altius, fortius than the last. Two cities had asked...
...scholarships and health care was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Furthermore, the Salt Lake Tribune reported that the committee spent nearly $10,000 on six shotguns and rifles that went to Olympic officials, including Samaranch. (The president said it's O.K., because he doesn't vote for the host city. But even his deputy, I.O.C. vice president Dick Pound, has said Samaranch possesses "the loudest nonvote anyone can imagine.") Governor Leavitt's office confirmed that an internal ethics panel of the S.L.O.C. was investigating allegations of prostitution, including whether some committee members' credit cards were used...
...S.L.O.C., and if the committee is unable to raise $242 million more in the next year, it will face a shortfall on its $1.4 billion budget. The buzzards are circling. Innsbruck and Calgary, both former Winter Games sites, have cheerfully announced that they stand ready to be host of the '02 Games, should their dear friends in Salt Lake be unable...