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...thrilled," Lee said. "[I'm] really excited about leaving the newsroom, not only getting a chance to study but to meet the other fellows...
...close involvement in the editorial process. A number of longtime editors, including Jacob Weisberg, Morton Kondracke, Mickey Kaus and Michael Kinsley, left during Sullivan's tenure. And one of his new hires, Ruth Shalit--whose stories included a much discussed piece suggesting favoritism to blacks in the Washington Post newsroom--got in hot water for alleged plagiarism and inaccurate reporting. After initially defending her, Sullivan placed Shalit on a leave of absence...
When Robert Redford bought the screen rights to All the President's Men, he had little idea of the snags that lay in store. One was his hiring of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid scriptwriter William Goldman, who put emphasis on off-color newsroom humor. The move caused an uproar: "The Post nearly backed out of the project then, and [Executive Editor Benjamin C.] Bradlee was blunt with Redford. 'Just remember, pal,' he said, 'that you go off and ride a horse or jump in the sack with some good-looking woman in your next film...
Very loosely based on the rise of news reader Jessica Savitch, the script by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne sends Sally Atwater (Pfeiffer)--all elbows and naked ambition--into a Miami TV newsroom presided over by Warren Justice (Redford), who ankled the network scene because he was too darned independent. Sally, later called Tally, is raw but cunning and learns quickly; best of all, in the tyranny of telegenics, "she eats the lens." Soon she has the coolest gig in journalism: asking hard questions of politicians by day, having Robert Redford massage her feet at night...
...right. Less than two hours earlier, the Dublin newsroom of Ireland's main broadcast network had received a call. The person on the line gave a six-letter code word to identify himself as an I.R.A. operative. Then came the news. "The complete cessation of military operations will end at 6 p.m. this evening...