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...this is Bob ("Tell Erik Estrada I'll meet him out on the blacktop") Hope, 79, here to tell you about my new special next month on NBC: Bob Hope's Star-Studded Spoof of the New TV Season-G-Rated with Glamour, Glitter and Gags. And how about NBC these days? The peacock has been taking such a beating in the ratings recently that I've seen better-looking birds served by Frank Perdue. This is my 33rd year on NBC, and for my new special I've got all the hot stars, except...
This may be true of car-chase dramas and comedies with laugh tracks, but network news coverage isn't shoddy. CBS, ABC and NBC each spend about a million dollars a week on their nightly news. Big budgets made possible the satellite reporting from West Beirut; large American audiences agonizing over what they saw (including one viewer in the White House) hastened the ceasefire. But if network news is indispensable, it is also inadequate. Its fatal flaw is fear of the bored viewer switching channels. Those who get their news mostly from TV, as most Americans...
...programs come in two kinds, orderly or contentious. CBS's Face the Nation and NBC's Meet the Press let a guest finish a sentence. On ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, questioners interrupt and badger the guest, which works well with facile and thick-skinned politicians, but can be unfair to the reflective. Sometimes these shows make headlines; their real value is to give viewers a sense of public figures they have only read about...
Without the lure of big names, the nightly The MacNeil/Lehrer Report over 270 public television stations consistently provides TV's best discussion of public affairs. Robert MacNeil, once of NBC, is a refugee from network news ("aware of its frequent triviality, its distorting brevity, its obsession with action and movement, its infantile attention span"). His was the radical idea to devote an entire program to one timely subject. He found a partner in Jim Lehrer, "the single most intelligent person I have ever worked with." On fast-breaking news, MacNeil and Lehrer do an impressive job of rounding...
...those aristocrats of physical culture, the modern and ballet dancers, have always gone. Says Impresario Paul Taylor: "The dancer's body is superb as a functioning instrument to accomplish physical feats." Deb bie Allen, who plays a dance teacher and serves as choreographer on the NBC-TV series Fame, sees dancing as "a precision art. Doing the things your body might not want to do keeps your mind alert and elevated." And, as Choreographer Patricia Birch (Grease) notes, "other people are admiring dancers' bodies to the point of emulating them. Muscles have become the status symbol of fitness...