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...HEATED DEBATE on ABC's "Nightline" last month, political foes, the Rev. Jesse I. Jackson and the Rev. Jerry R. Falwell, faced off for more than an hour. The subject was South African apartheid. Falwell and Jackson exchanged personal barbs; they agreed--not surprisingly--on next to nothing...
...happy to play any role that I'm asked to," says Vice-President of Production at ABC Motion Pictures Joshua Donen, one of the club's advisors...
...advised to seek an ideological balance. That spectrum attitude somewhat diminishes the columnist, who is seen to be not so much speaking for himself as reflecting a point of view. It's like the phony balance of man-in-the-street interviews on TV, characterized scornfully by ABC News President Roone Arledge as "one for, one against, and one funny...
...million minimum that NBC agreed to spend was well above the $225 million that ABC paid to broadcast the 1984 Los Angeles Games but far less than the $600 million that the South Koreans had been seeking. The 1988 price reflects the eleven- to 14-hour time difference between the U.S. and Korea, which means that some of the most popular events will not be seen live by a large part of the world audience. NBC hopes to have better luck with the broadcasts than it did in 1980, when a U.S.-led boycott of the Moscow Games resulted...
...have often provided a bond between Southerners and the British. So no one should gape if the role of a Southern belle seems to fit Lesley-Anne Down better than a custom-made bodice. In the 12-hr. pre- Civil War saga North and South, scheduled to air on ABC in early November, British-born Down, 31, plays the refined daughter of a Louisiana Frenchman who marries a man she does not love. "He turns out to be a fiend," says Down, who draws no parallels to her ongoing real-life divorce from Director William Friedkin. Meanwhile, Down has fallen...