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...critic at the Atlanta Constitution. Since then he has watched TV for us with a couch potato's endurance and a sharp but fair-minded critic's eye, writing hundreds of savvy, tightly crafted reviews and features -- as well as cover stories on such subjects as Bill Cosby, Diane Sawyer, Arsenio Hall and Murphy Brown...
...featured as speakers. Among her favorites were Al Gore, Jay Rockefeller and Bill Clinton. Democratic donors ponied up $1,000 a place for the privilege of being part of the party. In the process, she raised close to $12 million and won the right to be taken seriously. Diane Sawyer recalls that as late stayers gossiped in corners, Pamela would still be talking seriously with a knowledgeable guest...
...Chet Huntley and David Brinkley broke up in 1970 (an entropy year: Huntley-Brinkley and the Beatles) have been awkward. ABC failed badly with Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters. NBC's Tom Brokaw-and-Roger Mudd team was just as happy and long-lived. NBC once considered hiring Diane Sawyer as a co-anchor, and discussions of teaming Brokaw with, say, Jane Pauley will now revive. But, says Brokaw, "I'd be bored. There's not enough for two people to do." If ABC wants to switch to a co-anchorship, the No. 1-ranked Jennings says firmly, even blithely...
Among the "special guests" were the ghost of Freddy Mercury and "The Male Choir of Fr. Augustus." A Mark Twain look-alike criticized the Toronto-based band, whom he called "Canadian carpetbaggers," for their apparent misrepresentation of the Twain classic "Tom Sawyer" in a song of the same name...
Blame it all on Mark Twain. His novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn established not only the quest theme for 20th century American literature but also the matter and manner of kids' movies. Sommers' brisk, pretty version of Huck's wayward youth gets most of Twain's words right, even if the music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck...