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...gossip columnists. Although most practitioners are too competitive to mention one another, they all take frequent note of Claudia Cohen, who moved from "Page Six" at the Post to the I, Claudia column at the Daily News to her current bully pulpit, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee on ABC-TV. Along the way she vaulted into the ranks of privilege by marrying an A-list name, corporate raider Ron Perelman...
After just six weeks on ABC's Sunday-night schedule, America's Funniest Home Videos is the newest member of Nielsen's Top Ten. The show's premise is shamelessly simple. Viewers send in funny clips they have shot with their camcorders -- everything from cute baby antics to homemade music videos. The producers sift through the best stuff, organize it around loose themes (sports, animals, weddings) and embellish it with sound effects and wisecracks from host Bob Saget...
...cast as the usurper of Pauley's job, took over in January with viewers already against her. And they don't seem to have changed their minds: after nearly four years as the top-rated morning show, Today has slipped in the past six weeks to No. 2, behind ABC's Good Morning America. CBS, in the meantime, has dumped its morning co-anchor, Kathleen Sullivan -- oddly, just when the program's third-place ratings were inching upward. Sullivan, whose last day was Friday, will be replaced by a relative unknown: Paula Zahn, who has been doing the newscasts...
...newest member of the morning female triumvirate do? Zahn, 33, reads the news with bright-eyed brio and overdramatic retards at the end of each story. ("At least five . . . have been reported . . . killed.") She has solid journalistic credentials -- nine years in local reporting and anchor slots before joining ABC News in 1987 -- and soft brown hair. Oh, yes, and she has an eight-month-old daughter at home. Looks like she came to play...
...Midler's tears in the just released weeper Stella. He is currently shooting a sci-fi film for Steven Spielberg, Arachnophobia, in which he plays an exterminator battling killer spiders. All that in addition to his regular weekday job: playing Roseanne Barr's TV husband in the top-rated ABC sitcom Roseanne. "More has happened to me in the last year," says Goodman, "than anybody except maybe Nicolae Ceausescu...