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EWTN's top draw is Mother Angelica, whose twice-weekly shows (with numerous taped repeats) are broadcast from a studio near the Irondale monastery. Mother Angelica gives new meaning to the phrase "winging it." On Tuesday's Mother Angelica Live, scriptless and sometimes armed only with a theme--youthful piety, for example--she rambles for 30 minutes or so about whatever enters her wimpled head. On Wednesday's installment, she chats with guests, usually priests or laymen who share her conservative views; both segments include calls from viewers. In video terms, it's totally retro, but it works. Says Jesuit...
...network -live and largely unrehearsed-each Saturday night. The show is loaded with intramural cracks, tedium, desperate-looking guests reaching for laughs, mechanical dolls that wave their arms and drop their pants, additional tedium, and the apparent illusion that several million people want to watch 120 minutes of the scriptless life of a semi-educated egocentric boor...
...know that would happen, just honestly"). Fran was so taken by the satiric little land of make-believe that she never could bear to watch the puppets being shut away in their box. Last week, as sad Kuklapolitans and sadder viewers said goodbye to a show that was simple, scriptless, sketchily rehearsed and never tied by contracts. Tillstrom said: "It endured on one principle -love. I hope it doesn't sound too holy. But we loved our audience, and they loved us. It was just a big love affair...
...with the Stockholm was his 14-year-old daughter Linda, who had been traveling with Morgan's exwife, Jane Cianfarra, and her husband. New York Times Correspondent Camille Cianfarra. Morgan rushed to a rescue ship on a Coast Guard cutter, then back to Manhattan for his evening newscast. Scriptless, he ad-libbed an eloquent report of the tragedy from the viewpoint of an anonymous "person who had relatives aboard." Next day, when Linda proved incredibly to have been hurled to safety in the Stockholm's jagged prow by the impact of the crash, Morgan shed his reporter...
...McFaden drama. While the governor preserved a stony silence, one of his aides hurried out to Monmouth Avenue to inform McFaden that Stevenson wouldn't follow the script, and didn't want any glass of water. Half an hour later, Stevenson himself appeared, went through a scriptless visit...