Word: newsrooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
This semester, instead of editing copy in a newsroom, she will be scouring Widener Library for information on women of color in executive newspaper positions...
Still, in the words of a longtime staff member, there's a "palpable tension" in the CBS newsroom. From the executive suites to the cafeteria lines, the conversation at CBS News is about what to do with Connie and Dan. Dump her, keep him? Dump him, keep her? Dump them both and bring in Ed Bradley from 60 Minutes? The talk spilled over to Don Imus' nationally syndicated radio show two weeks ago, when professional curmudgeon Andy Rooney called the Rather-Chung teaming "the worst network-news mistake since ABC paired Barbara Walters with Harry Reasoner...