Word: rooney
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andy Rooney's semicelebrity, the result of his appearances in the nice-guy slot on the CBS TV show 60 Minutes, has not reached the public nuisance stage. % It is still possible not to have heard of him; he maintains just enough decent obscurity to squeak by, so far. In his other, humbler occupation, Rooney writes funny newspaper columns, and Word for Word is his fourth collection of essays. Those who missed the first three can just take a seat anywhere. Rooney is always good company. He manages to give the impression that he has just run into...
...division were included. Emotions flamed higher when the network announced the removal from the air, effective next January, of the CBS Morning News, a program that cost $34 million annually to produce but perennially finished last in the breakfast sweepstakes. In his syndicated newspaper column, 60 Minutes Commentator Andy Rooney wrote, "CBS . . . no longer stands for anything. They're just corporate initials...
...Andy Rooney, the elfin curmudgeon of 60 Minutes, usually gripes about quaintly trivial matters like hand soap and junk mail. But in his syndicated newspaper column two weeks ago, he launched an angry attack on a more substantial target: his own bosses. Recent layoffs and the just announced demise of the CBS Morning News, he charged, were symptoms of a growing bottom- line approach to news that is unworthy of a once great network. "CBS, which used to stand for the Columbia Broadcasting System, no longer stands for anything," Rooney wrote. "They're just corporate initials...
...Sunday Times, Globe, Washington Post (which you've had to special order) all the way from the foreign automobile/Jeep to the beach, you've done alright. Extra points go to anyone who can bring all of these plus the lastest Frederick Forsythe novel, anything by Art Buchwald or Andy Rooney or Agatha Christie, plus The New York Review of Books. Do not bring suntan lotion (you're here for two months, so you'll get sun eventually), anything to eat (you'll eat later at home and who wants to deal with the mess) a portable stereo (please...
...Though Rooney doesn't end up in a funny farm like Clouseau's boss did, he does end up covered with dirt, bitten by Ferris's dog, and beaten up by his younger sister. Jones, who spends much of his time leering with pathological hatred of Ferris, gives a fine performance as the hapless dean. Of the other members of the cast, Alan Ruck is superlative in his supporting role, and Jennifer Grey is also good as Ferris's bratty and jealous younger sister...