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...Reggie ("I'm older and more mature now") Smith. Cey's blast came with Smith on board and gave the Dodgers the same 2-0 lead they had at the end of the first half inning last night. Ah, but last night's script, as boring as any Merv Griffin Show, had quite a different finale than the eve before...
...minute or so it might almost be Merv Griffin or the Tonight show. The host is professionally affable, the guests are the usuals: a loathsome child star and a piano player, a pompous research scientist, a frizzy-haired health-food nut. Then comes the perception that something is terribly awry-the piano player is in an iron lung; Fernwood 2 Night, the talk show to end all talk shows, is on and running muck. Something like a televised cross between radio's Bob and Ray and print's Mad Magazine, it is Norman Lear's newest...
...plus a reported 20% of any profits. Helping Frost land the contract was Herbert Klein, Nixon's longtime press confidant, who felt that Frost was not the kind of U.S. journalist who is "always trying to put in his own opinions." Klein's other recommendation: U.S. TV's talkative Merv Griffin...
...part, efforts are already under way to obtain bookings for Administration officials-as yet unannounced-to explain the program, not only on the familiar interview shows such as Face the Nation, Meet the Press and Issues and Answers, but on the popular TV talk shows emceed by Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin and Dinah Shore...
...stadium Scoreboard. From there, armed with his Remington 742, he can draw a fine bead through his telescopic sight on any of the 92,000 assembled fans, among whom are the mayor of L.A., the Governor of California, the President of the U.S. (who is en route) and Merv Griffin (who opens the football game by delivering the national anthem as if it were a carton of half-and-half). Not even all this is enough. Besides worrying about who is going to get shot, and when, we must fret over who will win the big game between...