Word: shows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Golden retrievers, dalmations, St. Bernards. Lassie, Spuds Mackenzie, Alex from Stroh's. If I didn't know this was a crew regatta, I'd have thought it was a pet show...
...writer. In 1957 they moved from New York City to Los Angeles, where she stayed at home and reared their daughters. Although Frances was the inspiration for Norman's acerbic TV character Maude ("All of Norman's work is autobiographical -- Archie Bunker was based on his father"), the show- business community was a peculiar culture that reduced Frances, who did not want to be either a starlet or a producer, to an atrophying, bitterly depressed Hollywood wife. After much therapy, she chose to end her 28-year marriage. (Norman Lear, 66, has since married a psychotherapist, with whom...
...minutes: pratfalls and swan dives, break dancers accosted, a girl lost and maybe won. Some technology- ( inspired images are new -- Irwin silently screams from inside a TV until someone vacuums up his video image and expels it into an old trunk, from which the lanky actor unfolds -- but the show owes a lot to Chaplin and Harpo, Jacques Tati and Marcel Marceau. Still, they are the people to copy, and Irwin surely has the gift...
...defense, Mike Siegel of Seattle's KING-AM argues that "we don't manipulate, coerce or control. We're just the means through which the public is heard." Siegel, 44, is a relatively well-credentialed member of the talk- show fraternity. A Brooklyn, N.Y., native, he has a Ph.D. in speech communications, and began doing radio talk shows while a college professor in Massachusetts. In 1980 he moved to Miami's WNWS-AM, where his first big on-air campaign helped defeat a proposed rate increase by Southern Bell Telephone...
...Exxon boycott ("We felt that cutting up credit cards hurts the local guys running the gas station," says Steve Cochran, of Minneapolis' KDWB-FM). Others oppose efforts to organize radio hosts nationwide. "All the bad it can do outweighs the good it can do," says talk-show veteran Larry King. A number of prominent talk hosts are staying away from the convention being organized by Jerry Williams, and the management of New York City's WABC-AM has forbidden its employees to attend. "We feel that unifying talk-show hosts on any political topic is undue and unfair concentration...