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...spots and ads. You can add 15 to 20 share points to a show by good promotion." Silverman is no less punctilious about the refinements of scheduling. Says Dann: "Before I saw Charlie's Angels, I knew it could be a big success. Pretty girls against The Blue Knight and Quest. If it was up against Police Woman and M*A*S*H it would not be a runaway...
Roberts manages the sort of homely but vulnerable manner that might conceivably make a brash young knight eager to wed and protect her, then live to regret the day. Finney, the best he's been since Tom Jones, projects all the lying charm of that role, but with more blushes, blusterings and side-ways glances that belie his conscience-free self-confidence. And because the script faithfully represents the tensions created by the times rather than playing on the assumptions of the sixties, this psychological guerrilla war still rings true and poignant, whereas the same theme in Who's Afraid...
...Charlotte Observer (circ. 169,968), owned by the Knight-Ridder chain, sends four editions across the Carolinas every morning, and more than 60% of its readers live outside Charlotte. Editor C.A. McKnight covers a lot of ground with only 38 reporters, but does not slight long-term investigative projects. One example: Observer reporters spent 21 months digging through expense vouchers at the Southern Bell Telephone Co.; so far, eleven executives have been indicted for cheating the utility. The paper's support of school busing has not pleased many readers, but Editor Reese Cleghorn's sensitive editorials rarely offend...
...were controlled by a bank of computers tended by some frosty-eyed scientists in immaculate white smocks. Delos was dedicated to the fulfillment of adult fantasy: pay the hefty tab for a stay at the park and one could be a gunfighter in the Old West, say, or a knight preparing for a joust. The robots eventually rebelled, however, and hay wired the whole park...
There must be a "knight in shining armor" waiting in the wings of the political arena to truly inspire the American people...