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LAST WISH (ABC, Jan. 12, 9 p.m. EST). Maureen Stapleton is a woman suffering from cancer, and Patty Duke is the daughter who must decide whether to help her die, in this unflinching TV movie based on Betty Rollin's book...
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...become the fourth most respected brand name in the U.S., according to a recent poll of 2,000 people, ranked just behind the Disney parks, Kodak and Mercedes-Benz and ahead of Rolex, Levi's, IBM and AT&T. (ABC, NBC and CBS were not offered by the opinion seekers.) As a source of knowledge in turbulent times, CNN may be without peer. "Ted Turner is probably the pre- eminent publisher in America today, maybe in the world," says Don Hewitt, founding producer of 60 Minutes on CBS. "When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went...
...Turner is in charge of getting news into the building, Furnad, senior executive producer, is the man responsible for getting it on the air. An 18- year veteran of ABC News who joined CNN in 1983, Furnad is a feisty field general who can berate his troops for a technical slipup one minute and praise them warmly the next. Staffers stand in awe of his poise and judgment under fire. "As wild as he is," says anchor Bobbie Battista, "there isn't anybody I'd rather have in there...
...with a Rolodex full of political contacts, dating from his years as an aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He has taken a hands-on approach to CNN in more ways than one. During the gulf war he brought cookies to bleary-eyed staffers working on the weekend. When ABC signed up Mikhail Gorbachev and Yeltsin for a joint interview after the failed coup, Johnson flew to Moscow and personally negotiated with them to do separate interviews on CNN first...