Word: newswoman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder that Sawyer, at 43, is the hottest newswoman in television? The sort of star news executives battle over, make promises to, open their wallets for? Last February, after more than ten years at CBS, she was hired away by ABC for a reported $1.6 million a year. The primary lure: the chance to join Sam Donaldson as co-anchor of Prime Time Live, the new weekly show that will debut this Thursday at 10 p.m. EDT. In addition, ABC dangled occasional fill-in anchor duty on World News Tonight and Nightline. The prospect of losing Sawyer so rattled...
...Brooks' beguilingly skeptical romance, Jane is the Lois Lane of the '80s, a newswoman whose affections are torn between a Clark Kent reporter (Albert Brooks) and a flawed Superman-anchorman (William Hurt). The male leads had long been cast, but until just before rehearsals, Jim Brooks was still looking for his "little steamroller." Debra Winger, who had shone in his Terms of Endearment, was pregnant and unavailable. Sigourney Weaver, Mary Beth Hurt, Christine Lahti, Judy Davis -- all were fine, but nobody was right...
...long reach of her Washington Post Co. publishing empire but the possibility of not being invited. Among the 600 or more well-wishers at the fete organized by Graham's daughter Lally Weymouth: Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Secretary of State George Shultz, Senator Edward Kennedy, Publisher Malcolm Forbes, ABC Newswoman Barbara Walters and retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Lewis Powell. "Here's looking at you, kid," said the President as he toasted the liberal Graham in Casablanca style. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger noted the "mark the Washington Post has left on this town, on our nation . . . and perhaps...
Broderick works best as a culture buzzard, circling scenes of death and derangement, identifying choice morsels by stripe and cry. His range includes a wide variety of wildlife: a condemned murderer named Germany Baker, a radical feminist with a wardrobe of obscene T shirts, an ambitious, self- absorbed television newswoman, black and Hispanic militants, limousine , liberals and Fritz Finn, President of the U.S., who has had an affair with Broderick's late sister. Jack's brother Augustine, affectionately known throughout the world as Bro, is a Benedictine priest with 14 honorary degrees, a 43-line entry...
...meaning and morality of political events. Bui ironically it is Ihe senseless death of the newsman who expresses these sentiments (Gene Hackman in a well-judged performance, not too cynical, not too idealistic) that turns Price into a Sandinista sympathizer. He takes with him into the rebel camp the newswoman both men love. And since Joanna Cassidy brings such attractive intelligence to her role, one's first impulse is to accept without protest Ihe film's ambiguous climax...