Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of electronic matchmaker in helping to set up the visit-though it undoubtedly would have occurred in any case. During Sadat's flight from Cairo three of his four journalist guests* on the plane were ABC's Barbara Walters ("Barbara, so you did come!"), Cronkite and NBC's John Chancellor. For three days the late 20th century's video technology monitored the principals in one of the planet's oldest enmities, as they performed for the world on their biblical home ground. The effect was eerie and complicated. Sometimes it produced a charming bathos...
...Vegas Showgirl Valerie Perrine is dusting off some old tricks for her role in NBC's spring special Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women. Perrine plays Lillian Lorraine, one of Ziegfeld's girlfriends, who wants to be a star in the famous follies. So Ziggie obligingly surrounds her with lavish sets. In one inflated scene, she descends a 36-ft. staircase amid 6,000 balloons-pure Pop corn...
While CBS was preparing its interviews, NBC was also trying valiantly to collar Sadat. But the network's man in Cairo, John Palmer, was out of the country and could not get a plane back in time for the Monday newscast. "We were sunk by a goddam jet," grumbled a producer at NBC. (The network got to Sadat only in time for the following night's broadcast.) NBC did manage a satellite conversation on Monday between Begin and Anchorman John Chancellor, taped only minutes after the Israeli had finished with Cronkite. NBC had to borrow the same hotel...
...received death threats-and been socked in the face with a banana cream pie. When she showed up in Manhattan to tape an appearance for the Today show, NBC was so worried for her safety that guards spirited her out of the building after the performance. She called off a press conference at the nearby Hilton Hotel because of warnings that hostile demonstrators would be in the streets. Appearing in St. Petersburg, Fla., last week, she had to change hotels for security reasons. The victim is Singer Anita Bryant, 37; her tormentors are radical gay activists, mostly male; and their...
Then too there is Nader's annoying holier-than-thou attitude. In an attempt to shed his dour reputation, Nader in January showed up on TV as host of the zany NBC's Saturday Night Live. In one routine he deadpanned his way through a comic turn satirizing none other than Ralph Nader. The effort backfired in one respect: though the skit was indeed amusing, Nader portrayed himself altogether too accurately as a driven zealot. Congressmen agree that Nader does his homework, but they are repelled by his insistence that his position is the only morally right...