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Despite an avowed preference for a younger man ("We have an interest in perking up identification with a younger audience," says Executive Producer Stuart Schulberg), four of the eight are over 40. The list: Los Angeles Reporter Jess Marlow, 44; Washington Correspondent Douglas Kiker, 44; Today's Washington editor Bill Monroe, 53; and that perennial Today substitute and network newsman, Edwin Newman, 55; London Correspondent Garrick Utley, 34; New York Anchor Man Jim Hartz, 34; Tomorrow Host Tom Snyder, 38; and White House Correspondent Tom Brokaw...
...Today is expected to be more than just a good newsman, of course. Says Co-Host Walters: "The person must be able to do interviews and ad-lib those awful 30 seconds at the end of the show." He must also supply what Schulberg calls "chemical balance" to the stand-up comic pace of Today Reviewer Gene Shalit and the alternately sweet-and-strident Walters. And he must bring himself to do commercials...
Whatever their fate at Dartmouth, the Harvard skiers couldn't have worse luck than Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, working on the script of Winter Carnival with Dartmouth graduate Budd Schulberg in Hollywood, was fighting a touch of tuberculosis when producer Walter Wanger told the two scriptwriters to report to the scene for atmosphere. Despite protests, Fitzgerald was herded on a plane from California to New York, and as his alcoholism got the better of him, he boarded a train to White River Junction with much distaste. By the time Fitzgerald arrived, he was sick, drunk and sleepless. And during the next...
...hour later, Schulberg helped Fitzgerald out into the night where they were confronted by Wanger who was so disgusted with Fitzgerald's disheveled condition that he fired...
...here we get, in all the bloody detail, much of the exciting poop about the years when Fitzgerald was a struggling and forgotten artist: his fight with Hollywood director-writer-producer Joe Mankiewicz, his failed screen test, his drunken weekend with the young Budd Schulberg at Dartmouth while working on a picture called Winter Carnical . The hard-core gossip is laced with memory portraits provided by such Fitzgerald comrades as screenwriters Nunnally Johnson, Frances and Albert Hackett, and Anita Loos, and friends like actress Helen Hayes and director George Cukor...