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...caught fire last fall when a journalistic organization, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, announced plans to screen Murrow in Washington as part of a fund-raising event scheduled for this week. Two prominent CBS newsmen who are members of the R.C.F.P. steering committee, Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite, voiced strong objections. The film, they charged, presents a distorted picture of the network's brass, particularly former CBS President Frank Stanton, who comes across as a shallow "numbers cruncher." Further, according to committee members, Rather argued that the R.C.F.P. should not lend its support to a movie produced...
...election, just 11% of the nation's black voters cast their ballots for Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter. In 1984 Reagan received a mere 9% of the black vote against Walter Mondale. Yet last week a New York Times/CBS News Poll showed that a startling 56% of the blacks interviewed approved of the way the President was handling his job. Overall, the poll gave Reagan the highest approval of his presidency...
...external, technical approach to acting and believers in the Actors Studio "method" of fusing a character with one's own psyche; between "realist" writers who seek to simulate life and "theatricalists" who emphasize that they are staging an artifice, a show. He unflatteringly evokes such figures as Walter Kerr and Mary Martin, and demonstrates by his own example that success in the theater is neither enduring nor necessarily lucrative...
...reproduced with too little contrast, but the photographs throw as much light on Adams' genius as anything in the text. Looking back in an amiable mood, he has produced the kind of memoir given to noting that a 1944 New York City hotel room was "most agreeable" and that Walter Mondale could be "most cordial and patient" when sitting for Adams' camera...
...From Walter Payton to William Perry, modern Bears worthy of George Halas and Bronko Nagurski are off to New Orleans for their first Super Bowl. The enchanted opponent, New England's surprising Patriots, debuts too, under Raymond Berry. From I to XIX, each of the past games is revisited by one thoughtful man. See SPORT...