Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shocked in future years when we learn more about the decision making in this Administration." Helen Thomas, that dogged veteran reporter for United Press International, argued, "The people around Reagan have got him in a cocoon. They feed us just enough to keep us busy." Andrea Mitchell of NBC Nightly TNews added, "I schlepped all the way out to Billings, Mont., for a picture of Reagan in a stagecoach and was never given a chance to ask him a question. We're frustrated...
Three years ago, the kid from Brooklyn won a job as a featured player on NBC's revamped Saturday Night Live; he was paid $750 a show. "His effect was dazzling," says John Landis, his director on Trading Places, of those early shows. "There was a ding! when he walked on, almost like Marilyn Monroe." Soon he was the program's one breakout star. Next season he will return for at least ten shows, at $30,000 an appearance...
...hypocrite, a braggart, a coward and a misogynist. He is sycophantic, grasping, rude and vain. He is also hilarious, the most outrageous character on television. He is Bill Bittinger, a Buffalo talk-show host, brilliantly played by Dabney Coleman, on NBC's new comedy series Buffalo Bill. The character is that rarity on television, a star who is a truly unsentimental cad. His lone redeeming feature is his unredeemability. To Buffalo Bill, all women are "bimbos" to be seduced, all men rivals to be traduced. If American viewers had not lost their innocence about unscrupulous TV characters, Bill would...
...more-but were double or greater than what Poland charged during the papal visit in 1979. And for the first time in John Paul's travels, Vatican correspondents were billed for accreditation and for buses to follow him. Among the biggest bills: $1 million for the U.S. network NBC, about $600,000 each for CBS and ABC. One big consolation: the Poles, in their eagerness for hard currencies, accepted credit cards...
...exclusive" like (hold your breath) a never-before-seen glimpse behind Johnny Carson's desk. The second section, called "Spotlight," is either a profile of a celebrity or a "behind-the-scenes" story by an E. T. correspondent such as vivacious Author Barbara Howar or former NBC News Reporter Scott Osborne. Recent example: a look at the making of Michael Jackson's dynamic music video clip Beat It. The formula consists of putting the possessive form of the word star in front of another word and making it a story: star's pets, star's cars...