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They marched six abreast across the great square like some damask-clad, miter-capped army, the Cardinals in scarlet bringing up the rear. More than 2,600 bishops, the largest such gathering in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, took seats on 330-ft.-long bleachers in St. Peter's Basilica and craned like schoolboys for a view of the farmer's son who had called them here to ... talk. About what? "About everything," one prelate predicted. "And a few things besides...
...Peter Pan Live Color Broadcast NBC, March...
...Think of Peter Pan as a TV salesman, and in that regard, this show was one of the most successful ever broadcast. One of the first color specials, it reached as many as 65 million homes. NBC, then owned by RCA, had no small interest in moving its expensive new color TVs, and Pan was a two-hour, $400,000 commercial for the glories of color. People gathered at the homes of neighbors who had "color" to watch. They were not disappointed. "Surely there must be fairy dust from coast to coast this morning," raved a critic...
...have already seen more of Gulf War II than we did of all of Gulf War I. The best known TV scoop of the 1991 war was essentially radio: CNN's Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett and John Holliman describing the air attack on an audio line while the network broadcast their photographs over a map of Iraq. In sheer visual terms, last week's telecasts--with digital-age 3D animations, live interviews from the middle of an invasion and space-agey dispatches by videophone--were to their predecessor as Grand Theft Auto is to Pong...
There were early stumbles. After President Bush's Monday ultimatum, MSNBC put up a deadline-countdown clock, as though it were the E! Oscars preshow. And when the first missiles hit, ABC's Peter Jennings was nowhere to be found, hustling onto the set shortly before Bush addressed the nation. As if to redeem itself, the network stayed with the story longer than its rivals. NBC got riveting reports from Baghdad from Arnett, on loan from MSNBC's National Geographic Explorer--he welcomed incoming fire like a bracing morning shower--but anchorman Tom Brokaw should save his sentimental streak...