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...David Letterman, host of NBC's popular late-night show, had been offered more than $14 million a year from CBS to jump networks. NBC has a month to match the deal, but will be hard pressed to do so. The ratings last week showed NBC trailing CBS and ABC by a large margin. It all looked, as Letterman explained sardonically, like a grand plan to keep NBC in last place. (See related story on page...
OSCAR DE MEJO'S ABC (HarperCollins; $17). Year after year, the alphabet book is reinterpreted for new readers. This year's freshest version is a series of 26 deceptively simple paintings that celebrate scenes of Americana. B is for the Boston Tea Party; J is for Jazz; P is for Patrick Henry; S is for the Statue of Liberty; U is for Umpire. And X? That stands for Xmas, of course. May yours be merry and bright...
MARITAL SEPARATIONS, A FIRE AT WINDsor Castle and now CHARLES AND DIANA: UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER -- it has been a rough year for the royal family. ABC's new docudrama (Dec. 13) starts with the 1981 royal wedding and goes downhill from there. Its sympathies are plain: Diana is the down-to-earth outsider forced to endure a stuffy new life-style (when she pops into the palace kitchen for orange juice, the staff is horrified). Charles is merely a wuss; the real heavies are his priggish parents, forever sniffing about royal propriety. Despite the oversimplification, this TV movie is surprisingly...
...READY FOR SOME IRREVERENT, down-and-dirty TV satire, promises the new ABC sitcom THE JACKIE THOMAS SHOW. Created by TV's terror couple, Roseanne and Tom Arnold, the show revolves around the egotistical star (Tom Arnold) of a network sitcom. But it is surprisingly conventional and toothless. Staffers quake at the mere thought of a meeting with Jackie, but he turns out to be an easily manipulated dunce. The inside-TV humor is too familiar, as are the supporting players (Martin Mull, Alison LaPlaca). Even Arnold's performance has the whiff of a recycled Dave Thomas character from SCTV...
...surfaced in the case of Ronald Rewald, a Hawaiian banker who was in jail at the time facing fraud charges in connection with the collapse of his investment firm. Rewald had also provided cover for the CIA, and said the agency had engineered his troubles. In September 1984, ABC News reported Barnes' claim that the CIA helped him get a job as a Honolulu prison guard so that he could spy on Rewald. Barnes said the agency had then ordered him to kill the banker. ABC later admitted it could not substantiate the story. In 1988, after Barnes published...