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When Veteran Newscaster David Brinkley, 61, abruptly announced earlier this month that he was leaving NBC News after 38 years, he pointedly scotched any retirement rumors. He was going home to Washington, D.C., he said, 'to do what I've always done-cover politics." Last week beaming ABC News executives confirmed that, come November, he'll be doing just that for them. Brinkley's assignment: anchoring a new, hour-long successor to Issues and Answers on Sunday mornings, providing political commentary for ABC World News Tonight, and, in 1982 and 1984, doing what he has always...
News of the deal surfaced just hours before John Chancellor wound up NBC's Nightly News last Friday with a fond farewell to his colleague: "As a writer, he is simply the best. As a stylist, he is impossible to imitate." Quite true, but Brinkley's NBC bosses seemed almost to have forgotten that during the past year. In fact, it was their growing indifference that finally prompted his exit. Insiders reported that he was frustrated with the network's back-burner treatment of his NBC Magazine with David Brinkley. The show was pitted first against...
Such all-out attention is normally reserved for a national crisis. NBC says teen use of drugs and alcohol is just that: by age 17, 70% of all youths have sampled one or both. So the start of the network's season will be an antidrug special, half grim documentary, half musical extravaganza. The show, Get High on Yourself, also centers on the jingle, which is presented five times in pop, rock, acid rock, country and gospel versions. Warbling it among a huge cast will be 55 entertainment and sports celebrities, ranging from tuneful Olivia Newton-John to frog...
...special began as a single 60-sec. commercial and, with NBC's encouragement, just grew. It is a pastiche of folksy, campfire sing-alongs; rafter-shaking black church music; gritty rapping between Burt Reynolds and streetwise teens; and documentary footage about the making of the commercials and the special, with touches of Hollywood self-satire. Some of the sequences are blandly Middle American-Evans calls them "white bready." But there is plenty of funk in Rocker Ted Nugent. His hair hangs in crimped strands halfway down his bare, sweaty chest, and he talks in a singsong urban-punk cadence...
...NBC'S goals are more diffuse. In addition to performing a public service, the third-place network wants to arouse interest in its new fall series among the young viewers who control the TV dial in many homes. For the celebrities it was an unpaid labor of dedication. Most were recruited by Evans' co-producer Cathy Lee Crosby, star of ABC'S stunt show, That's Incredible! All attested that they do not use drugs and promised further time to the Get High on Yourself Foundation, headed by Crosby. Says Bob Hope: "It is a problem...