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...goof?" factor. As with game shows, TV is borrowing from its past here to address 21st century ratings worries. "Television is marked more and more by event programming," says CBS-TV president Leslie Moonves. (CBS recently announced plans for a live version of On Golden Pond.) Says consultant Ethel Winant, who was an associate producer of the 1950s' live-TV anthology Playhouse 90: "The actors are naked in front of millions of people...[and] the audience is part of that experience...
What kind of transfiguration was it? Applewhite's sister Louise Winant maintains that her brother entered a Houston hospital with a heart blockage and had a near-death experience that changed his life. The Washington Post reported that in 1971 he checked into a psychiatric hospital to be cured of his homosexuality after an affair with a student at Houston's University of St. Thomas led to his being fired as a music professor. (He had been fired from another job for similar reasons in 1964.) He reportedly confided to a lover that he longed for sexless devotion, passion without...
...Peaks front, the entrails from last week's Emmy Awards make for cautionary reading. The show, nominated for 14 Emmys, was virtually shut out, winning only technical prizes for editing and costume design. Lynch, up for the Best Director citation, lost out to Thomas Carter (Equal Justice) and Scott Winant (thirtysomething). The Twin Peaks cast put its best face on defeat. "We kind of like the idea that we didn't get any Emmys," maintains Ray Wise, who plays Laura Palmer's spectacularly bereaved father. "We're not about winning awards; we are about doing what...
...midst of the furor over the exclusion of American reporters from the military operation in Grenada last fall, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger appointed a 14-member panel to draft guidelines for press access to future combat situations. Chaired by retired Army Major General Winant Sidle, the commission consisted of journalists and military public information officers. Last week Weinberger released their report and announced that the proposed guidelines are being put into effect. He also said he will appoint a permanent panel of journalists to assist in planning for news coverage of future military conflicts. Said he: "By forming such...
...Radcliffe won the Winant...