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...talk show in 1991, having served as mayor of Cincinnati in his early 30s and then anchoring a local news show there. With curly red hair, round glasses and slightly nasal voice, he has a style that is less empathic than Phil Donahue's and less excitable than Geraldo Rivera's. He's the intelligent, slightly smarmy observer of the antics around him. This is the peak of his career, but that doesn't mean he's getting as rich as Winfrey. Major advertisers like Procter & Gamble shun his show, which can charge only about a third of what Oprah...
...their guests shared their personal tales. Lake, whose show debuted in 1993, refined the formula by adding confrontation. With her success came a clutch of imitators and a new round of fretting about trash television. But with all the competition, ratings began to decline, and by 1996, hosts like Rivera and Lake were taking the pledge to become more high-minded. They were encouraged by the experience of Jenny Jones, one of whose guests murdered another. These shifts and the success of Rosie O'Donnell heralded a new era of niceness, or so it was believed. In fact, a nastiness...
...Luis Rivera added a three-run homer for Houston...
...strokes. He was 82. Friendly was the behind-the-scenes force on such documentaries as "Harvest of Shame" in 1961, about migrant farm workers, and the Murrow "See It Now" report that hastened the downfall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. "He was my No. 1 cheerleader back to legitimacy," Geraldo Rivera, who was a student of Friendly's at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, told the Associated Press. "When I went into the show-bizzy aspects of the early days of my talk show, he would kind of roll his eyes and say, 'Oh, you were my smartest student...
...With reporting by Elaine Rivera and William Tynan/New York