Word: sevareid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MARRIED. Eric Sevareid, 66, silver-haired, golden-voiced commentator who retired from the CBS Evening News in 1977; and Suzanne St. Pierre, 42, a Washington producer for the station's 60 Minutes program; he for the third time and she for the second; in Worcester, Mass...
Network. This film grabbed three Oscars for best actor, best actress and best screenplay in 1976, but it wasn't much of a year. The best thing about this movie about the shenanigans behind the evening news at UBS is commentator Peter Finch's letter-perfect imitation of Eric Sevareid. But once you get over your amusement at that stentorian phrasing you find nothing. This film is as sterile as a 30-second clip of Amy Carter walking to her integrated school. Faye Dunaway won her Oscar for Chinatown, not this lemon. Peter Finch is dead...
...editorialize on the air, but, says Paley, "finally we concluded there was no way the network could give editorial opinions on national or international subjects." Why? Because so many of its independently owned affiliates had different political opinions. Paley speaks of "heated arguments" with Ed Murrow, Eric Sevareid and Howard K. Smith about editorializing, which is why your ordinary local late-night radiogabber is a lot freer with his opinions...
...long, very rainy night during their marriage's tenth year. The couple are feuding, of course: about the fate of the revolution and their relationship, about her desire for independence and his ideologically hypocritical sexism. Since Wertmuller's ability to equivocate on the big themes matches Eric Sevareid's, there is no resolution to the story's many conflicts. All we ever learn is that the hero and heroine cannot live with each other and cannot live apart. We can easily do without them both...
...much freer will Chancellor be to speak his piece as commentator? That too is something of a neuter craft. Even as gifted a wordsmith and observer as Sevareid could, on days when his brow was furrowed but his mind only half engaged, sound merely sententious. As the CBS News code defines the job, the analyst is "to help the listener to understand, to weigh and to judge, but not to do the judging for him . . . the audience should be left with no impression as to which side the analyst himself actually favors...