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...more than the usual ruckus on three separate continents. Two weeks ago, they captivated an audience of 18.6 million when they appeared in an unprecedented 45-minute interview on ITV, Britain's independent television network. (U.S. viewers will be able to see a portion of it this week on ABC's 20/20.) They talked soberly about their responsibilities and delightedly about their children, and resolutely scotched nearly every rumor that has been flitting around them...
While plotting the network's defense, CBS Chairman Thomas Wyman began looking for help and turned to Tisch, a shrewd investor with close ties to executives at both CBS and ABC. Recalls Tisch, whose Fifth Avenue office is around the corner from Black Rock, as CBS's Manhattan headquarters is called: "Tom came up to see me about some of his problems with Turner and Helms." A Loews takeover of CBS was not specifically discussed, but the two men reached a tacit understanding. Says Tisch: "CBS knew that if it needed somebody, Loews would be glad to discuss a deal...
...pillar of the New York establishment. He is chairman of the New ! York University board of trustees, a leading supporter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a force behind the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. His network ties include a longtime tennis partnership with Leonard Goldenson, the chairman of ABC...
BORN. To Deborah Mays Namath, 23, actress, and her husband of eleven months, Joe Namath, 42, flashy former New York Jets quarterback who was inducted into the pro football Hall of Fame last summer and is now a sports broadcaster for ABC-TV; their first child, a daughter; in New York City. Name: Jessica Grace. Weight...
...debut 14 years ago as a budding beauty in The Last Picture Show, but the early promise of that role seemed to go unfulfilled. Several movies and a television series, Yellow Rose, flopped. Then last spring she let her hair down as the frosty and funny Maddie in the ABC-TV series Moonlighting. The critics applauded, and since it returned to the air this fall, the show has made several appearances in the Top Ten. "It was real hard for me to break out of that aloof-beauty thing," says Shepherd. "People don't seem to laugh at people...