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...anyone actually see the 200 Elvis Presley impersonators? I mean live, not a la ABC. And what do 200 Elvis impersonators have to do with the Statue, or Independence...
...this goes on against a drumbeat of criticism. Wolper has been savaged for glitzy overkill and for commercializing the statue by selling TV rights to ABC for $10 million. The other networks, furious, forced ABC to share the news events. His equanimity strained, Wolper bridles at talk that he is making money from Liberty Weekend: "I get zero, zip. They offered a fifty-fifty deal. I turned it down. I wanted to be a volunteer, because I'm asking so many other people to be a volunteer." (He receives $400 a day for expenses, far below his normal income...
...Friday's spectacular fireworks. But he could not have imagined the 200 Elvis Presley look-alikes who will perform during Wolper's Sunday night finale. Nor could he have dreamed of spending up to $30 million for a party or making $10 million by auctioning off broadcasting rights to ABC television. He would be puzzled by the multifarious products with the Statue of Liberty imprint: Liberty charcoal briquettes, Liberty beach towels, Liberty dry-roasted peanuts, Liberty tobacco. Moreover, Adams probably could not have conceived how practically everyone in a country of 240 million might be very nearly sated with...
...costs are being covered by the sale of television rights and tickets," he says. But many of the tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies are unsold. Of the total of 58,000 tickets, 9,000 remain, most of them in the $100 and $200 category. ABC, however, is not worried; the network bought the broadcast rights for $10 million, and has already sold $30 million worth of commercials...
...rebels. But Congress has long been uneasy about such assistance and moved two years ago to restrict it to "humanitarian" supplies like boots and bandages. Capitol Hill has mirrored the national wariness; nearly two-thirds of the U.S. public opposes the aid, according to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll. Reports of corruption in the contras' ranks have hurt the Administration's case as well. Government auditors reported that some $13 million of last year's $27 million in assistance could not be accounted for. In Miami two weeks ago, contra dissidents told reporters that field commanders had bilked...