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...battle. From the day in 1954 when Walter Cronkite and a puppet lion named Charlemane went up against Dave Garroway and J. Fred Muggs on NBC's Today, through the late '70s and early '80s, when such CBS heavyweights as Hughes Rudd and Charles Kuralt were battered by ABC's Good Morning, America, the network rarely finished higher than last place...
...informational programming. "I want to get away from the couches and the endless parade of celebrities," he says, adding, "I want to do something that is strong and intelligent and witty and wise." He has already found one of his two hosts: Kathleen Sullivan, whom he wooed away from ABC last week for an annual salary reported to be in the high six figures...
...Miami model and aspiring actress who was unwittingly introduced to the American public by former Democratic Presidential Candidate Gary Hart. A cruise with Hart on the yacht Monkey Business carried her to the covers of the celebrity magazines and into an interview by Barbara Walters on ABC's 20/20. She is now served by agents and career advisers, and has broken into big-time modeling for a new line of sportswear called No Excuses. "I make no excuses," says her script. "I only wear them...
Surviving ABC cameraman Tony Avirgan together with his wife Martha Honey investigated the bombing to identify the perpetrators. They concluded that Adolfo Calero and the C.I.A. ordered the bombing to assassinate Pastora. For at the press conference, Pastora was about to denounce the F.D.N., Calero's Somocista comrades, and his C.I.A. controllers, and publicly refuse to submit to their unified command...
...other quiet comedy this season is ABC's Hooperman, created by the L.A. Law team of Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher. Starring John Ritter as a San Francisco police detective who inherits a run-down apartment building, the half-hour series plays like a scrunched together episode of Bochco's Hill Street Blues without the violence. The premiere segment made some jarring missteps (a running gag about a policewoman trying to seduce a gay cop) and lunged too hard for the emotional knockout (Ritter bursting into tears over the death of his landlady). But the engaging Ritter is adept...