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...like many a smart, superficial journalist, News gets its details right while muffing the intangibles that add up to larger truth. The show's ethical dilemmas are genuine but predictable. (Should we report politicians' affairs? Hound grieving widows? Cover African news?) And the show is a clip reel of white-collar-drama cliches: the tracking shots of newsies speed walking down hallways to show how goldarned busy they are, the family man torn between home and office, the single woman married to her career whose eggs you can all but hear expiring one by one. The most intriguing character...
...when Kopple, 55, was approached to memorialize the Hamptons summer of 2001 for ABC, she was so enthusiastic that she trooped out to the shore in the dead of winter to shoot a sample reel of interviews. "I went in with no agenda," says Kopple, whose credits include films about Mike Tyson and Woody Allen. "It wouldn't make for an interesting piece...
...better ad campaign than corporate game plan. "The Salomon guys were a little faster with the rules and more focused on investment banking," says a longtime member of Smith Barney's research team. That's when big money started flying toward analysts at the firm who could help reel in underwriting deals by promising to "cover" the stock--which often meant that the analysts would praise the stock and recommend it to investors...
...famously youth-obsessed TV business, Botox is out and wrinkles are in. The reason: during last November's sweeps, the networks' triannual efforts to impress advertisers--a Carol Burnett reunion on CBS surprised everyone (not least of all CBS) by drawing 30 million people to watch a reel of bloopers. Now, virtually every TV icon with an AARP card and a pulse has been pressed into service...
Moore’s game winner on Saturday night was highlight reel material, and a testament to his will and conditioning...