Word: rollin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stylish, street-smart, sophisticated, ; successful and, in comparison with Los Angeles, blessedly serene. For celebrities, Guys and Dolls has become a must-see. Last week Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were there; the week before, it was Garry Trudeau and Jane Pauley. NBC correspondent and best-selling author Betty Rollin had to settle for standing room while reporting a story. Yet what gives the show an advance sale of $5 million, astonishing for a revival without marquee-value stars, is its appeal to ordinary New Yorkers, like the dozens from a Long Island temple who gathered last week...
LAST WISH (ABC, Jan. 12, 9 p.m. EST). Maureen Stapleton is a woman suffering from cancer, and Patty Duke is the daughter who must decide whether to help her die, in this unflinching TV movie based on Betty Rollin's book...
Ratings were low, and her days at the station seemed numbered when NBC asked her to audition for the job of Barbara Walters' successor on the Today show. The candidates constituted a virtual Who's Who of women in broadcasting, including Cassie Mackin, Linda Ellerbee and Betty Rollin. "I assumed I was there as a courtesy," says Pauley. Improbably, she won the job. "I was very impressed with her poise," says former NBC News president Richard Wald, now at ABC. "Jane looks like somebody you would meet in your neighborhood but who is just a little smarter and more articulate...
Wishnatsky was hot sax personified. The way he hugged his horn, you'd have thought he was in love with it. We would have done anything to seduce him away, but he was tight with the dirty dancin' Dialectrics, rockin' and rollin' all night...