Word: jims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appeal of the rolling Ozarks is not lost on the entertainers, most of whom have settled there after long, exhausting runs on the road. Even with 12 shows a week, Tillis considers life in Branson "a vacation." Says resident singer-comedian Jim Stafford, whose witty, whimsical show is in its second year: "It is easy to get burned out on the road. But here I live on the lake. I just drive in, play and go home...
...News anchor Tom Brokaw on PBS next summer, your TV isn't broken. NBC and the Public Broadcasting Service last week announced an unprecedented partnership for the 1992 presidential conventions. The rivals will jointly produce programming for PBS. Brokaw will appear on PBS with Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, and solo on NBC. The deal provides NBC with a graceful way of covering the conventions without sacrificing lucrative entertainment shows, since its own coverage won't begin until 9:30 p.m. With viewership dwindling, the conventions have become an expensive duty for the networks. Still, they are loath to offend...
...white and 87% were male, while the corresponding numbers for Koppel's show were 89% white and 82% male. Chris Ramsey, director of program marketing for MacNeil/Lehrer, defends the program by noting that it cross-examines the people in power, and that it's neither Robert MacNeil's nor Jim Lehrer's fault that by and large the people in power happen to be white males. Replies Jim Naureckas, editor of Extra!: "Not all opinions are represented in government circles. I don't think that the spectrum of opinion in America runs from one end of Pennsylvania Avenue to another...
...real Spielberg's crew. The lowered cost of entry has encouraged all sorts of people to go into business -- full time or on the side -- taping everything from rock concerts to legal depositions. "All of a sudden I can give my videos the slick look TV audiences expect," says Jim Watt, a self-employed "videographer" who worked at NBC News for 12 years before the new technology enabled him to strike out on his own. Now he pursues a vocation many would covet: traveling to the world's choicest fishing spots to shoot instructional fly-fishing videos that he sells...
...late '80s brought agonizing disillusionment. One after another, some of the country's most prominent Protestant televangelists revealed themselves as pious pretenders, driven by lust or avarice or unsaintly ego. Perhaps most distressing was the ammunition the scandals gave to the skeptical and scornful. While erstwhile believers in Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart and Marvin Gorman winced at the exposes of dalliance and the unconvincing protestations of repentance, countless other Americans were laughing...