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...Tartikoff. He took a job at a New Haven TV station, while playing semipro baseball for the New Haven Braves. Soon he was at Chicago's WLS-TV, run by Lew Erlicht, who introduced him to Fred Silverman. From Erlicht (now president of ABC Entertainment), Tartikoff picked up programming smarts; from Silverman, he learned the importance of loving TV. Even today Tartikoff can rhapsodize about his job as if he were a kid who has just been deeded the - candy store. "In movies," he says, "unless you make E.T., you reach maybe as many people as watched a TV show...
...words from President Reagan: "Around the world we see people joining together . . . to free their nations from outside domination and an alien ideology . . . Their goals are % our goals." Lehrman did not point out that this letter was not from Reagan to the new allies, but from Reagan to "Dear Lew...
...image of journalists as a hard-drinking tribe is almost wearisomely familiar. It has been reinforced in books and movies by characters from Jake Barnes, the hard-boiled news correspondent of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, to Lew Marsh, the boozing reporter that James Cagney plays in the 1951 film Come Fill the Cup. Even TV's Lou Grant & Co. regularly restored their spirits with spirits at the local hangout...
...watches the film for the fifth time in the Jewel, Cecilia (Mia Farrow) is well lost in pleasure. A New Jersey hash-house waitress, all thumbs and fanzine fantasies, she can remember whom Lew Ayres used to date but not who just ordered eggs over easy. So she has lost her job. Would that she could lose her husband Monk (Danny Aiello) so easily. He is a bruiser who spends his unemployed days pitching pennies with his pals, his nights alternately neglecting or abusing Cecilia. Her life is like a movie, all right, but the wrong kind, the first reel...
...DIED. Lew Christensen, 75, pioneer American ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher who had been director or co-director of the San Francisco Ballet since 1952; of a heart attack; in Burlingame, Calif. He started his career in the 1930s as America's first major male star, dancing for George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in a precursor of today's New York City Ballet. Creator of such popular, diverse works as Filling Station and Con Amore, Christensen, with his dancing brothers Harold and Willam, helped to build the quality of ballet in the western...