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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...romances. Yet TV, oddly, has taken a different tack of late. Summer series today are more likely to be of the serious sort, shows that would have little chance of surviving the ratings battle any other time of year. Thus two prime-time newsmagazines -- CBS's West 57th and NBC's 1986 -- have joined the networks' hot-weather schedules; both will presumably be back in storage by the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Creativity's Season in the Sun | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...backstage in 1970. A few weeks later she moved in. "It wasn't impulse," DeVito insists. "It just made sense. I had an apartment, and she supported me." Perlman, a scrappy 5 ft. 1 in., co-stars as the lonely termagant Carla, a kind of female Louie DePalma, on NBC's Cheers; posed together, Carla and Louie could be figurines on the Grinch's wedding cake. But Rhea and Danny have made better luck. They have lived together for 16 years and were finally married in 1981. "At the ceremony," DeVito says, "we had a recording of Rhea's favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tinseltown's Tiny Terror | 7/21/1986 | See Source »

Many of Kovacs' live appearances, too, are gone for good. A onetime actor and newspaper columnist, Kovacs began his TV career as a local daytime host on Philadelphia's WPTZ in 1950. He was soon picked up by NBC and worked at one time or another for four networks (including the short-lived DuMont), hosting everything from a cooking program to several live comedy-variety shows, as well as a series of innovative comedy specials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Celebrating a Comedy Composer | 7/14/1986 | See Source »

...irreverent approach to office routine was not appreciated. The CBS station in New York City was delighted to have a witty, outspoken reporter on its staff, and sent her out to cover general-assignment and humaninterest stories. Eventually, she was given the chance to operate heavier machinery at NBC. She wrote for and co-anchored Weekend and NBC News Overnight, feature- journalism shows that were mostly seen in off-peak viewing hours. Yet Ellerbee seems to have had a prime time. "And So It Goes" is a breezy collection of anecdotes about covering the news both soft and hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

During June, Malin has shuttled back and forth between covering games in New York for NBC, Toronto for ESPN, and his daughter's graduation at Harvard. He also spent a few days in Mexico City in the middle of the tournament...

Author: By James D. Solomon, | Title: Byerly Hall Administrator to Call Play For NBC in Sunday World Cup Final | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

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