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This month HBO is airing American Family Revisited, an hour-long examination of how the camera changed the Louds from an anonymous well-to-do Santa Barbara family into what some observers labeled the living symbols of a culture in decline. Made by Susan and Alan Raymond, who filmed the original, the new documentary lacks the ragged power and immediacy of the series: a studied slickness supplants the prototype's shaky hand-held camera style. But underneath the gloss there is - O tempora, O mores! -another exposé of the Loud family's habitual self-exposure...
There is quite a bit of money to pass: his estimated income last year was $542,000. The other terrors include the temptations of easy but sleazy money. "Some people offer as much as a million yen ($4,200) for an hour-long lecture. You can even get away with a talk about what you did yesterday. I refuse any such request. To me it is corruption...
After Reynolds passing last week, the close-knit society of network newsmen paid tribute to their fallen colleague, praising him left and right as one of the industry's giants ABC devoted 35 minutes of its hour-long Nightline broadcast to Frank and it silenced the trumpeteering musical intros that warn viewers of its newscasts of the end of all commercial breaks. John Chancellor and Walter Cronkite remember them spoke of what a "professional" Reynolds was, of how he had fought his way through a 35-year rise from a radio reporter in his native Indiana to the top spot...
Well, with a bit of sorcery and even more business acumen, Shelley Duvall, 34, has turned her fantasy into video reality. She is executive producer and guiding spirit of Faerie Tale Theatre, a series of hour-long classics featuring marquee names, which has become a popular and critical success on Showtime, the nation's second-largest pay-television service. Showtime, with 4 million-plus subscribers, is currently airing the sixth of her fanciful tales, The Sleeping Beauty, and plans to show three more by the end of the year. So far, Duvall has enticed Joan Collins, Elliott Gould, Maureen...
...future. With his 300-lb. bulk and a florid face framed by a tailored white beard, Kahn had a commanding presence that seemed to complement a mental and verbal vigor bordering on arrogance. He briefed, and at times berated, every President starting with Harry Truman, and at his first hour-long meeting with Ronald Reagan in 1981, he permitted the new President to get in only a few words. "The main thing we do is change attitudes," Kahn told TIME Correspondent Joelle Attinger shortly before his death. "We're trying to educate policymakers...