Word: abc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moss, Campbell and Schiffer only bothered to walk one catwalk each at last month's Milan fashion shows. Evangelista has retired, and Turlington is a student at New York University. Crawford, after co-starring in one bad Hollywood film, is trying to be a TV star, but her recent ABC special, Sex with Cindy Crawford, came in last in the ratings for its time period...
Which would you rather watch: a responsible and balanced ABC News report about the tragic but accidental crash of TWA Flight 800--or a stylish, X-Files-like show exposing the bastards who blew her out of the sky, narrated by conspiracy auteur Oliver Stone...
...luck. ABC plans to air a Stone "special" that will probe, among other topics, spooky theories about the 1996 crash (network honchos won't call the project a documentary, since documentaries employ what fuddy-duddies like to call "facts"). Under the working title Oliver Stone's Declassified, the show is tentatively scheduled to air in February and may become a regular series...
...ABC News folks got in a snit when they heard about the Stone show--their aviation-industry sources were getting calls from Stone's people--and news chief David Westin expressed concern to colleagues in ABC's entertainment division. Last week East Coast newsies said Westin assured them that the Flight 800 portion of Declassified has been axed. But trust no one: Stone says 800 will be part of his show. The public ABC line is that the program will air with warnings that the news division didn't produce it (a disclaimer that could boost ratings dramatically...
Instead, Declassified will be the product not only of Stone's aptly named Illusion Entertainment Group but also of Michael Davies, who became an entertainment executive at ABC in January. A native Brit, Davies loves the Fox network's hit reality specials, such as When Animals Attack and World's Scariest Police Chases. He came to ABC to mimic and improve on them. "If Fox did When Animals Attack," he told Electronic Media magazine earlier this year, "I want to do Why Animals Attack...