Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comedy. Not only has the magazine been a huge success (circ. 600,000), but it has also launched popular spinoffs: books, records (three Grammy Award nominations), stage revues, a radio show. Better still, the Lampoon has nurtured a new generation of comic talent. Many of the creators of NBC's Saturday Night Live, including Michael O'Donoghue, the Chief Writer, are Lampoon alumni. That show's Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Players Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner and Bill Murray first hit the big time in Lampoon revues...
...credibility and theorized that he was only out to promote a TV version of his 1976 autobiography, My Undercover Years with the Ku Klux Klan. The film, The Freedom Riders, stars former Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Don Meredith as Rowe, and will be completed within three weeks. But NBC has not yet decided when it will be aired. Said one Justice Department official of the controversy over Rowe: "It's unadulterated crap, all of it. He didn't shoot Liuzzo. He didn't kill a black. He didn't bomb the church...
...ratings point in a major market like New York, Los Angeles or Chicago is worth more than $500,000 in yearly station revenues. When executives at Chicago's CBS-owned WBBM this year figured they would lose three evening-news ratings points if Anchor Bill Kurtis jumped to NBC-owned WMAQ, they won him back by counteroffering $250,000 a year. They considered it a bargain. Says Joe Saltzman, a veteran TV newsman who teaches broadcasting at the University of Southern California: "The anchor person presents the news the way people like to hear it. He's worth...
Michael Chellel, who played the flasher in the NBC comedy special Just for Laughs, has a new act in Hollywood. He has published a map showing the graves of 140 celebrities, including Theda Bara, Humphrey Bogart, Walt Disney, Errol Flynn, Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, who are all buried in Forest Lawn -the cemetery satirized by Evelyn Waugh in The Loved One. Chellel sells about 40 maps a day on weekends (price: $5 each). For $25 more he will arrange to have flowers delivered to cemeteries for fans of deceased stars. Business is so good that Chellel is now giving...
...What could be better than working on a beach movie in the summertime?" asks Suzanne Somers, the lead in NBC's tersely titled special Zuma Beach-the Most Beautiful Girl in the World. The star of ABC's sexcom Three's Company plays a singer whose records don't sell. To learn why not, she hangs out on the sand with the high school crowd and soon becomes one of the gang. Surfs up. Water's right. Beach Blanket Bingo, anyone...