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...knockabout goods, and Moore is funny as he tries to attend both ladies and still keep his secret from them. But that secret is a nasty one, and all his good nature cannot wash it away. Nor can it allay the suspicion that his character, an otherwise sensible TV newsman, would never have got into the predicament. Eventually one's doubts Moore on these points nag laughter into pained silence...
...dead person. If the man was "James Doe," he would go to the phone and call his downtown office and say, "James Roe" is dead. The downtown coroner would say "got it." He would write down "James Sloan" on his list of dead people. Then he would call a newsman and say "Blain Cohen is dead." And the next day, Blain Cohen would read it in the paper and have a heart attack. Then the deputy coroner would go to Blain Cohen's house and write down, "James...
THOUGH THE Salkinds may not have realized it at the time, finding Reeve was a luckier break than getting the Newmans. Almost the perfect physical match for a Superman, he could project the boyish charm that made both the ego-busting muscleman and the nebbish newsman palatable and credible. Underneath the red and blue Reeve kept enough of the sly midwestern farm boy to make Superman's schizophrenic life a myth rooted in the American ideals of silent strength and self-effacing mannerisms. None of the Superman films ever fully descended into campy self-parody, because Reeve made...
...asking commentator John Chancellor for his "immediate thoughts" on this or that. After NBC projected Reagan the winner, Chancellor offered this immediate thought: "Just that there's a hunger in America for a president who serves eight years." On at least one occasion, Brokaw harkened back to former NBC newsman David Brinkley, now with ABC News. In 1980, Brinkley surveyed the giant NBC map--colored Reagan blue--and labelled it "a suburban swimming pool." It's odd to see Brokaw so drained that he must rely on a former colleague's quip...
While Prince Charles, 35, and Diana, 22, looked on, the youngster toddled over to examine a newsman's camera. Pointing at a microphone, he asked, "What's that?" (Willie goes sentences!) Explained his father: "It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say-and you are starting early...