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Attorney General John Ashcroft showed his softer side last week as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman ("Top 10 Reasons John Ashcroft Would Not Sing on Our Show--No. 5: Too busy tapping my phones"). But Ashcroft isn't softening his stance on the death penalty. Sources tell TIME that the Attorney General overruled recommendations from the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, as well as from his own committee of lawyers who review death-eligible cases, and instead decided last week to seek capital punishment for Emile Dixon, an alleged drug kingpin. It's the 12th time since...
...Winners JOHN ASHCROFT Musical A.G. wows Letterman crowd with pop songs, then announces he'd like hair and urine samples from every Muslim in the audience STEVE IRWIN "Crocodile Guy" made $8.7 million last year. Too bad insurance premiums for sticking your head in a crocodile's jaw are three times that ELIZABETH HURLEY Ex-covergirl may get millions for the story of her son Damian's birth. Meanwhile, Hugh Grant is trying desperately to impregnate himself Losers DAVID BECKHAM England's top footballer breaks foot, may miss World Cup. For our American readers, that's like the Rock getting...
Ratings aren't everything, however. Nightline's demographics have aged into Matlock territory, and annual profits have declined from a reported $30 million in 1997 to $13 million last year. (Letterman's show brings in an estimated $25 million in annual profits.) ABC corporate executives also grumble that Koppel makes $8 million a year and is contractually obligated to work just three nights a week...
...DAVID LETTERMAN has often had high praise for one of his late-night rivals, ABC's Nightline anchor TED KOPPEL. But, hey, Dave, what's all this about a possible move to ABC, presumably to take Koppel's long-held time slot? When reports leaked out that ABC was negotiating with Letterman, whose CBS contract expires in six months, disgruntled ABC News staffers (are there any other kind?) hit the roof. Nightline's ratings have been sagging, and ABC is under pressure from corporate parent Disney to boost its profits. But top news execs were miffed that they hadn...
...report. And all this time, America has been wasting its attention on the war on terrorism DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Historian quits Pulitzer jury because of plagiarism problems. It turns out she also borrowed that accent from the Kennedys TED KOPPEL Anchor is peeved when his network reveals it wants Letterman. Koppel consoles himself by saying he always wanted to work at PBS anyway...