Word: nbc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President made no reference in his speechto Gorbachev's hour-long NBC television interviewon Monday night. Asked what he thought of theSoviet leader's presentation, Reagan said, "I havehad a respect for him ever since...
...Celebrities like Jacqueline Onassis, Henry Kissinger and Paul Newman have joined hundreds of West Side residents in protests against skyscrapers proposed by Builders Donald Trump and Mortimer Zuckerman. Bowing to public pressure, Zuckerman has offered to scale down his 68-story tower, which would cast shadows across Central Park. NBC has backed away from Trump's proposed Television City, probably killing his dream for the world's tallest building: 150 stories that would throw morning gloom across the Hudson River into New Jersey...
...hardly new. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club was conceived in part to help promote Disneyland, and even critically acclaimed shows like Sesame Street have toy spin-offs. Nor, say industry spokesmen, does a hit show necessarily mean a stream of kids lining up at the toy counter. NBC's The Smurfs, for example, is one of Saturday morning's top-rated children's shows, but the like-named toys have not been big sellers...
...First Amendment cases, Kennedy's opinions have pleased the press. In 1978, for example, a plaintiff who had been convicted in an insurance scandal demanded to see film of a show NBC was preparing on the case, arguing that it might inflame public opinion and jeopardize his chances of parole. A lower court ordered NBC to surrender the film, but Kennedy struck down the ruling as being "aimed toward prepublication censorship." Said the judge: "It is a fundamental principle of the First Amendment that the press may not be required to justify or defend what it prints or says until...
...instant indicator of a pop phenomenon is the parodies and rip-offs it inspires. Fatal Attraction's success has already been validated by a skit on Saturday Night Live. Last week NBC aired a TV-movie thriller with the sounds- like title Dangerous Affection (originally Hit and Run); for Nov. 30, the network has scheduled a mystery called Fatal Confession (originally Father Dowling). And the title of Larry Cohen's detective movie Love You to Death was changed before release to Deadly Illusion. Perhaps, even at this moment, some literate mogul is optioning the Don Quixote epilogue, in which...