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...STORY. Steve Martin's Annie Hall: that's one way to describe this blithe, witty take on the most American of cities. Martin, who wrote the film, stars as a TV weatherman with a head for romance and a hard time finding it. Victoria Tennant, Marilu Henner and Sarah Jessica Parker offer the feminine options, and Brit TV maven Mick Jackson supplies the directorial dazzle. But this is a very personal Martin project -- the sweet-souled, nonstop-funny testament of a native Angeleno. Sly and soulful, it's the comedy that dares to be dippy...
MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE (NBC, Nov. 23, 9 a.m. EST). Might as well face it -- she's here to stay. Today show usurper Deborah Norville joins terminally jovial weatherman Willard Scott to narrate this year's float extravaganza...
Pauley's departure is the latest in a series of jolts to NBC's once happy morning family. The turmoil began early this year with the leaking of an internal memo in which Gumbel bluntly criticized several of his Today colleagues, notably weatherman Willard Scott. Egos were still being massaged when the show went through a behind-the-scenes shake-up: NBC Sports president Dick Ebersol was given new responsibilities as the executive in charge of Today, an unusual and controversial appointment for someone outside the News division. Then came Norville's unseating of veteran John Palmer as anchor...
...years in prison. He escaped briefly in 1977 and continues to maintain that he was framed by the FBI. -- DAN ROWAN, cohost of Laugh-In, died in 1987 of lymphatic cancer. -- MARK RUDD, Columbia University student radical, spent 7 1/2 years as a fugitive with the radical Weatherman. He now lives and writes in Albuquerque, N. Mex., where he is an active opponent of U.S. policy in Central America. -- BOBBY SEALE, cofounder of the Black Panthers, studies and teaches at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has published a book on barbecuing. -- SIRHAN SIRHAN, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, was sentenced...
...paper at least, Sajak, 42, has the right credentials. While growing up in Chicago, he used to sneak out of bed to watch Jack Paar and decided that doing a talk show "would be a fun way to earn a living." He became a radio disk jockey, TV weatherman and local talk-show host; then in 1981 he replaced Chuck Woolery on Wheel of Fortune. Part of the show's success can be traced to his laid-back, let's-not-take-this-seriously attitude. Indeed, Sajak has trouble taking even himself seriously. "No matter how charming and delightful...