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Talk so often leads to more talk. Perhaps that is why this fall, besides NBC's Johnny Carson and David Letterman, there will be entries from Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin on ABC, Joan Rivers on the new Fox network, David Brenner and Oprah Winfrey in syndication and Robert Klein on cable's USA Network. That spatter of patter may also be why a veteran of TV's talkfests is leaving the lists. This week, after 23 years, Merv Griffin, 61, broadcasts his / 5,520th and final show. "It's tough to say good-bye," said the genial, gee- whiz...
When he announced last January that he planned to depart at 60, NBC Chairman Grant Tinker asked that his successor be chosen from among the ranks of the network's current management. Last week it appeared that Tinker's wish would not be granted. Word began leaking that General Electric Chairman John Welch, whose desires became paramount at NBC after his electronics giant bought RCA, NBC's parent company, for $6.28 billion last December, had settled on his own man for the job. This week Welch is expected to name Robert Wright, 43, the president of GE Financial Services...
...comedian just after the heyday of "Hey, hey, L.B.J." protests, Randy Quaid used to do a takeoff routine on Lyndon Johnson. "He was always some kind of buffoon figure for me when I was growing up," he acknowledges. But after being cast as the Texas politician in LBJ, an NBC-TV movie to air next season, Quaid immersed himself in research that included taped interviews with Lady Bird Johnson, who is played by Patti LuPone. "I came to have this immense respect for the man," fellow Texan Quaid, 35, says now. "I could identify very strongly with his needs, with...
Nonetheless, the ad will air this week on 150 independent stations across the country. The spot, says W.R. Grace Spokesman Christopher Tofalli, is "done in good taste on an important issue." That's just the problem, says NBC Vice President Rick Gitter: "It's so well done. It expresses a view that budget cuts are a moral imperative." Which was exactly the point. J. Peter Grace, the company chairman, served as head of President Reagan's Commission on Waste and Inefficiency in Government...
Winston was hardly alone in her dismay. Though all three network morning ) shows are a mix of news and entertainment (Good Morning America is produced by ABC's entertainment division, while Today is a product of NBC News), the new CBS morning show will almost certainly have less news content than its predecessor. "Everyone is disheartened to see it go," says CBS Correspondent Bill Plante. "It doesn't contribute to a sense of stability in the network...