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...time CBS was ready to get into the game, all the good concepts had been taken. For Eye on People, the network has gathered up some top talent at CBS News, and a lot of videotape that's been lying around for years, to assemble a potpourri of informational programming about (you guessed it) people. Charles Kuralt is the host for I Remember, in which reporters talk about their reaction to major news events, like the Oklahoma City bombing. Paula Zahn anchors Fast Forward, which takes a look at people who used to be in the news, from Morton Downey...
...unmistakable in his black turtleneck and soft tweed jacket, the former university professor had been until recently but one among many voices in the cacophonous crowd of Zajedno (Together), a coalition whose members were united only by their opposition to Milosevic. Zajedno's potpourri included everything from strident Serb nationalists whose hard-line politics are as autocratic as Milosevic's, to liberals infatuated with Western democracy. Plagued by disunity, backstabbing and factional feuds, Zajedno's concatenation of conflicting groups could barely agree on who was in charge, much less what policies to pursue. Now the huge rallies have given them...
...Aardman Animations in Bristol, England, has done it all, contributing to the 1986 Peter Gabriel video Sledgehammer and a series of spots for Britain's Heat Electric utility. But Park is best known for his own four films, all Oscar winners or nominees: Creature Comforts (1989), a five-minute potpourri of comments by ordinary English folk put into the mouths of zoo animals; and the three Wallace-and-Gromit adventures, A Grand Day Out (1989), The Wrong Trousers (1993) and A Close Shave. All but the last one are on video; several will be shown this week and next...
Mark Leyner's new Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog is a wacky potpourri of satire that grazes on modern topics from deconstructionism to sperm banks. Tooth Imprints follows Leyner's similarly odd Et Tu, Babe and is jam-packed with random episodes of hysterical weirdness...
...Imus is one liberal -- well, he did vote for Clinton -- who succeeds with a comic-misanthropic style he has established in 27 years of radio, the last seven on New York City's WFAN. Imus, whose morning potpourri of talk and sharp parody sketches is syndicated in 23 cities, has interviewed Clinton, Bob Dole, Alfonse D'Amato, the lot. The rest of the show revels in bad taste, spitball humor and abolition of the Fairness Doctrine; it's radio freedom with a vengeance. (His show last Wednesday claimed that Gingrich earned his college degree from the "Close Cover Before Striking...