Word: weberman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budget myself on dates...bring my lunch to work...get short haircuts...find activities that aren't real expensive. I mean, I'm not going out and joining the polo club." --DANNY WEBERMAN, U OF MICHIGAN
Broadcasters trace the development of such shows back to the appearance of NBC's persistently popular Real People, an hour of sometimes amusing interviews in the heartland. A recent show followed A. J. Weberman, a "celebrity garbageologist" who among other feats has retrieved memos from Richard Nixon's trash can and empty Valium bottles from Gloria Vanderbilt's. ("The best thing I ever found," he says, "was Jackie Kennedy's pantyhose.") While Real People, which gets more than a third of the audience in its Wednesday prime-time slot, spawned a series of other "entertainment news...