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...ABC's animated series The Critic, acclaimed by reviewers but a ratings disappointment, has been picked up by Fox. After "creative changes," the show will reappear at midseason...
Leonard Goldenson, 88, retired as chair of ABCin 1986 when ABC merged with Capital citiesCommunications. He then became chair of the newcorporate parent company, Capital Cities/ABC Inc.,the position which he now holds...
...near collapse of the banking industry when it was saddled in the late 1980s with bad real estate loans. Notwithstanding his bookish appearance, Greenspan has long been a fixture on the Washington cocktail circuit, where he has squired such high- profile and politically connected companions as ABC newswoman Barbara Walters and NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell...
...Belli is leading a coalition of high-profile lawyers that has filed a $5 billion class-action suit on behalf of everyone who has ever been addicted to nicotine. Said Belli: "We will prove that the tobacco industry has conspired to catch you, hold you and kill you." The ABC News magazine show Day One, in a report on Kessler's FDA investigation, leveled tough charges that cigarette companies "manipulate" the nicotine content of their cigarettes to keep customers smoking -- charges that have prompted a libel suit from Philip Morris. CBS's 60 Minutes weighed in with a report suggesting...
Besides courting its friends, the tobacco industry is also coming down hard on its foes. Philip Morris has filed a $10 billion lawsuit against ABC for its Day One reports charging that the tobacco industry "artificially adds nicotine to cigarettes to keep people smoking and boost profits." Says Herbert M. Wachtell, the attorney representing Philip Morris in the suit: "The basic allegation of the programs -- that the company spikes its tobacco with additional nicotine during the manufacturing process -- is just fundamentally and flatly untrue." The network says it stands by its reporting. (A Day One source says Philip Morris refused...