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...worry. That peculiar odor you have been noticing in the morning is not burning toast. It is the smell of panic -- plump and juicy egos sizzling on a very hot griddle -- at NBC's Today show. Since the end of December, when Deborah Norville replaced Jane Pauley as co-host, ratings have not merely dropped; they have gone into free fall, a dizzying decline of nearly 25% that translates into approximately 920,000 lost households. The No. 1 morning program only five months ago, Today is now a distant No. 2, far behind ABC's Good Morning America...
...bebop by Charlie Parker, his recent playing has become less slashing, his tone more glowing, his lines more feelingly supple. The new sound is certainly enticing, and has helped Morgan get some of the attention he dodged for so long. Last week he was a guest on Jane Pauley's first prime- time special, about people who have dramatically changed their lives. This week he plays at Kimball's in San Francisco, next week at Birdland in New York City...
CHANGES: CONVERSATIONS WITH JANE PAULEY (NBC, March 13, 10 p.m. EST). Jane Pauley interviews people who have gone through major personal or professional transitions in her first prime-time special since she left the Today show after 13 years...
...cannot ignore the whiff of a double standard here. After all, it was Bryant Gumbel who wrote the nasty memo about his co-workers at Today, but it was Pauley who had to watch her heir apparent being groomed on the couch next to her. Norville too was probably treated unfairly in the press. Would a man in the same position have been so rudely characterized as a conniving climber? And why, some may wonder, does Harry Smith, the competent but colorless male half of the CBS This Morning team, get to stay on while Sullivan is forced to dust...
...worse, TV's women of the morning have a tough responsibility. To succeed in this league, they must not only be bright, attractive and versatile enough to talk comfortably with Hollywood celebrities, South African leaders and weathermen wearing Indian headdresses. They must also project a warm, cozy, familial glow. Pauley, with her big-sister perkiness, had it. So does Good Morning America's Joan Lunden, who is no newswoman but goes down as easy in the morning as mom's Cream of Wheat. Is it just a coincidence that both of them are also very public mothers...