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Other recent limited runs featured Martin Sheen in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Rob Lowe and Tony Randall in a Feydeau farce (both shows from Randall's new National Actors Theater), Jane Alexander in The Visit and, most opulently, Joan Collins, whose Private Lives ended last week. Says Harvey Sabinson, executive director of the League of American Theaters and Producers: "None of us who have been around a long time can recall a moment when so many major Hollywood stars came to Broadway...
Administration: Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Breena Clarke, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Ann V. King, Lina Lofaro, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...
...Zucker's experiments have worked out. In one recent week the show tried a series of daily call-in segments on such topics as sex, dieting and jobs; they seemed unfocused and pointless. But the show's resurgence is causing concern at Good Morning America, where Joan Lunden and Charles Gibson offer more stable but increasingly bland competition. (CBS This Morning remains a not-quite-so-distant third in the ratings.) Weatherman Spencer Christian recently began joining them on the anchor couch, perhaps to simulate Today's "family" appeal. And when NBC ran TV ads several weeks ago touting Today...
...some ways, a relic of an earlier TV era. (One element that was lost: book authors, who had often been slotted in the final 15 minutes but who disappeared from the show almost entirely.) One by one, competing talk-show hosts -- Merv Griffin, Joey Bishop, Cavett, Alan Thicke, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak -- fell away. Even Arsenio Hall, whose show has captured a new and younger audience, has failed to dislodge Carson from atop the late-night ratings mountain...
Administration: Susan Lynd, David Richardson, Hope Almash, Melissa August, Breena Clarke, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Ann V. King, Lina Lofaro, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna M. Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley...