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...political pile-on. That's how you can tell that Pat Buchanan is serious. Within a day after he unhinged the party establishment by winning the New Hampshire primary, his fellow Republicans started treating him as if he were a proposal to increase the capital-gains tax. On ABC's PrimeTime Live, General Colin Powell said Buchanan gives out "messages of intolerance." Sam Donaldson asked Powell whether he could vote for Buchanan for President if he were the Republican nominee. The general was crisp and clear...
Emmy-winning ABC-TV news analyst Jeff Greenfield has agreed to write a column for us on politics and popular culture--"C-SPAN meets the Grateful Dead," as he puts it. The first appears this week...
Whichever, Diller's ferocity has stood him in good stead since his William Morris mail-room days; he attended a party thrown by childhood friend Marlo Thomas and got into a characteristically vituperative argument with Leonard Goldberg, then a vice president at ABC. The older man, impressed with Diller's "willfulness"--Diller's word (again)--eventually offered him a job at the network. There he helped invent the mini-series, popularized TV movies and had the perspicacity to hire young Michael Eisner away from his job as a CBS children's programmer...
...anymore. Letterman's show has dropped to third place in the ratings, behind both Tonight and ABC's Nightline, and his surly, subversive comedy has gone back to being a minority taste. Leno, after a rocky start, has the hot hand, with newsmaking guests (Hugh Grant, Magic Johnson), big-event ambiance (traveling to the Super Bowl) and the most relentlessly flogged O.J. bits on TV. Now Jay is the one getting the nightly ovations...
...class spent the day on a bus, attending speeches and publicity events related to today's primary. The students watched Sen. Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.) address the state legislature in Concord and visited Clinton state campaign headquarters and WMUR-TV, Manchester's ABC affiliate and the state's only television station...