Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resembles nothing so much as the locker room of the local Y, and the ability to read a line is less important than knowing how to use a Nautilus machine. "Young girls don't watch my show to see my wonderful acting," says Jon-Erik Hexum, star of NBC's Voyagers!, with what might be called naked honesty. "The hunk thing is the catalyst that gets them to watch...
...always been at a premium in Hollywood, but in the '70s men who looked odd, unusual or perhaps just real-a bald Telly Savalas or an impish Robin Williams-also achieved TV stardom. "It was the heyday of the average guy," says Joel Thurm, head of talent for NBC. "The country was prosperous. People were relatively satisfied with their lives and were able to laugh at themselves a little more. Now we're looking for heroes again. We want fantasy and glamour...
...Adrian Zmed, 29, did commercials for Thorn McAn shoes and Flair pens before co-starring with William Shatner in ABC's T.J. Hooker, and Peter Barton, 26, was seen parading around in bathing suits in Penthouse mag azine before he became the visitor from a distant planet in NBC's The Powers of Matthew Star. Hexum also appeared in magazine ads before stepping into a TV show, the time-traveling Voyagers...
...Both filed petitions, Johnny stating that they separated Nov. 7, 1982. and Joanna claiming that the separation began March 4, 1983. The date debate is really about money, since the community property their lawyers will divide up may or may not include a chunk of the new multimillion-dollar NBC contract Carson signed late last year...
...next moments in the unnerving story are recorded on a videotape that WHMA showed in edited form on its news the following evening. By the end of last week, excerpts from it had been seen by tens of millions of Americans on the nightly news shows of CBS, NBC and ABC. Andrews came up to the camera crew. They stalled him, briefly, then set the camera rolling as he struck a match and touched it to his chest, which he had doused with lighter fluid. The match went out. He touched another match to his leg. That too went...