Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about missions to rescue American POWs in Viet Nam, drew big audiences. On TV, Viet Nam veterans, once portrayed as troubled loners, are now the sympathetic crime fighters of such hit shows as The A-Team and Magnum, P.I. First Blood scored unusually high ratings in a telecast on NBC last month, and orders for video cassettes of the film have jumped 25% since the release of Rambo...
...much for NBC. Within minutes the odd couple was whisked off, in separate limousines, to say it all again on ABC's Good Morning America, and then again for the CBS Morning News. On CBS's show, effervescent Co-Anchor Phyllis George ended her interview by calling on Dotson and Webb to shake hands, and they did, limply. But then George added, "How about a hug?" The astonished Dotson and Webb declined. In light of the continuing assertion of Illinois officials that Dotson is guilty, George's hug suggestion was inappropriate, to say the least. George later explained to Washington...
Indeed, by the end of last week, the Gary and Cathy Show had turned into a traveling media circus. NBC picked up the steep tab for the pair's airfares -- in Dotson's case, a chartered jet -- and hotel rooms. The drama seemingly will not end until the final commercial is played on the TV movie that may result from last week's flood of offers for Dotson's life story...
...kickoff was the 6-hr. show for 1,500 patrons on Saturday, May 4, and for millions who can see it as a 3-hr. TV special on NBC this Sunday. As befitted a night devoted to fond memories, it generated a few more. There was something old: Martha Reeves, looking better than ever as she reprised her Vandellas anthem, Nowhere to Run. Something new: Patti LaBelle joining Joe Cocker in an unlikely but inspired duet of his You Are So Beautiful. Something borrowed: the Four Tops stepping in at a moment's notice to sing backup to Boy George...
...government accredited 3,858 print and TV journalists from 53 nations to last week's summit; the White House provided them with a 32-page schedule covering virtually every step to be taken by President Reagan and the White House press corps during the first four days in Bonn. NBC Correspondent Irving R. Levine clambered onto a restaurant table so cameras could present a clear shot of him delivering his report with the Rhine in the background. The reporters raced among briefings often conducted simultaneously in five languages and scrambled for every scrap of news or reasonable facsimile thereof. Sample...