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Even the most reputable influence peddlers use their political connections to build leverage. As director of the 1984 G.O.P. Convention, Lobbyist William Timmons, a quietly genial man who represents such blue- chippers as Boeing, Chrysler, ABC and Anheuser-Busch, controlled access to the podium. G.O.P. Senators lobbied him for prime-time appearances. A Wall Street Journal reporter described Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, who was running for re-election in the fall of 1984, thanking Timmons a bit too effusively for allotting time for him to address the convention. "You told me you'd give me a shot," gushed...
...next step? Ron has signed a year's contract with ABC Entertainment and has been producing promotional spots for ABC affiliates. His first assignment as an entertainment correspondent--a segment on a cowgirl training camp in Exeter, Calif.--has been scheduled for ABC's Good Morning, America. If the right movie offer came along, he'd accept wholeheartedly. Says he: "I take it one step at a time. I'm trying to have...
...really make a complete fool of myself." She claims not to have any favorites but says Springsteen "is the hardest to do. He's so masculine." Fans of the feminine side of Welch can look forward to the next television season. Her production company is doing a six-hour ABC mini-series based on Forever Amber, and she will have a starring role in the adaptation of the heavy-breathing best seller...
Clearly, Hodel had become a hero within his own bureaucracy. But he had also inadvertently focused new attention on Iacocca as a potential presidential candidate. Although Iacocca votes independently, Democrats would love to claim him as their own. A Washington Post-ABC News poll last week showed him running only slightly behind New York Governor Mario Cuomo among Democrats for President, while both trailed Colorado Senator Gary Hart. But Iacocca insisted again last week that he has no presidential ambitions and that his resolve had been "put in concrete" by the week's events. He complained that politics "repulses...
Then there was the unmistakable dynamism of the preachers themselves. Graham caused such a sensation that his 1950 advent on ABC radio was foreordained. He made his TV debut the following year. Weekly shows, the basic unit of TV programming, did not begin until traveling Revivalist Rex Humbard happened by a crowd gazing into an Akron department-store window. Fashion < show? Puppets? No, a TV set. By 1953 Humbard was telecasting services weekly and in 1958 opened the splashy, 5,000-seat Cathedral of Tomorrow, the first church designed to be a TV studio. In 1955, at Humbard's urging...