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...same directors," he says. "So I thought, Let's take a look at them." Farley, whose acclaimed novel, My Favorite War, is due out in paperback from Ecco, will soon be starring in a production of his own: his marriage to former TIME correspondent Sharon Epperson, now an on-air reporter for CNBC...
ATLANTA: Bernard Shaw's blossoming film career took a hit today when CNN president Tom Johnson said that CNN is reconsidering its policy of allowing its news anchors to play themselves in movies. CNN had been roundly criticized for appearances by 13 CNN on-air personnel in the movie "Contact" delivering fictional news reports about a message from an alien civilization. Earlier, Shaw had appeared in "The Lost World" reporting that dinosaurs had run amok in San Diego. But "Contact" came under special scrutiny because CNN's parent company, Time Warner, also owns Warner Bros., which produced the film. Johnson...
Interviews with a dozen NPR minority employees indicate that they believe the network runs on "cronyism and favoritism," in the words of a black employee. Yet Totenberg, one of the network's most prominent on-air reporters, defends NPR's record, saying it "is an equal-opportunity abuser. I could sit down and write a litany of the times I have been paid less or slighted, but it's still a great place to work, and it's getting better." Perhaps she should add in dulcet tones, "all things considered...
...series certainly has no shortage of rerun fodder for such a venture. During its decade on-air, Biography has produced more than 480 episodes, looking at subjects from Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar to Howard Stern and Judy Garland. Each hour (occasional specials air at two hours) moves along economically, dwelling on no single aspect of a person's life but rather cramming in the whole cradle-to-grave (or cradle-to-this-minute) story. While a filmmaker could produce an entire documentary on the subject of, say, Attila the Hun's retreat from Rome, Biography's look...
Station WGCI parked a mobile studio outside Children's Memorial Hospital, where Girl X remains, and Dyson launched a 16-hour, on-air fund-raising drive that along with other efforts has yielded a staggering $200,000. The proceeds will go toward the child's medical expenses. Girl X, meanwhile, is conscious but unable to speak. So far, police say, they have no suspects...