Word: lunden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...living room and a working kitchen (for Pinkham and Child). If Brokaw is as brisk as a barrister, the easygoing Hartman, 45, is as relaxed as the family doctor, someone whom you would not mind telling about all those aches and pains. He also has a female subaltern, Joan Lunden, 30, a wholesome-looking type who is given little scope on the show, perhaps wisely. Her style of interviewing is to elicit the least information possible with the widest possible eyes...
...keeping with its homey set, Good Morning tries to create the illusion that everybody who works on the show is part of a family. "It's our home," says Lunden. There is some truth to that, but the home has not always been happy. Former staffers tell stories of intense backbiting. "I've never met so many people hi one place who had so little integrity," recalls one of them. "They had a dart board with a picture on it of Rona Barrett, and they would throw darts at it and make insulting remarks about her. Then when...
...that order. Hartman's ego is reported to be enormous. No one is allowed to stand in his light. Sandy Hill, Lunden's energetic predecessor, was much admired by the Good Morning staff but got along with Hartman so poorly that she hardly talked to him on camera, finally leaving to become the show's roving correspondent. Lunden, by contrast, is no threat to anybody. "The reason that she's risen is that she's a pretty girl with an empty head who doesn't bother anybody," is the bitter comment...
...Good Morning America studio on Manhattan's West 66th Street. Since seconds are precious at that dark hour, Hartman uses the 30 minutes to munch an apple and a banana and read-or "zap through," as he says-the New York Times and Daily News. (Joan Lunden uses the commuting time, also from Westchester, to nurse her three-month-old baby, whom ABC provides with a nurse and a nursery while she is working...
...light comes on, and Hartman goes on the air. "Good morning," he says, "I'm David Hartman with Joan Lunden. It's Tuesday, the 18th of November." After a few more introductory words, Bell takes over and tells viewers what happened in the world while they were asleep. At 7:13 Hartman comes back to moderate a sharp debate on school busing between Senators Lowell Weicker and Jesse Helms, the pro and the con. Ten minutes later the show breaks, and some 200 stations give five minutes of local news and weather...