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...incomplete electronic mosaic drew the ire of one American viewer. During an interview on ABC's Nightline, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger criticized the "absolutely one-sided account of the correspondents." Said Kissinger: "There is something demeaning about having three networks covering a victory parade over the United States in the city of the country where the victory was achieved...
...fall, may be substantial. This week's episode, with Tony Orlando playing a counselor for troubled teens, is the pilot for a potential spin-off. Next week's season finale, with Lena Horne as guest star, may also be the springboard for a new series. Both CBS and ABC are developing their own comedies about black families, obviously inspired by Cosby's success, and the show is being credited with reviving network interest in the sitcom form in general...
Reagan's chances of winning the budget struggle have not been enhanced by last week's reverses. The uproar over Bitburg seems to be perceptibly, if perhaps temporarily, lowering the President's popularity. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll published last week, 52% of respondents wished Reagan would cancel his visit to the Bitburg cemetery, which contains the graves of 2,000 German soldiers, most of them killed during World War II, including 49 members of the Waffen SS, the combat branch of Hitler's murderous elite guard. Reagan's overall job-approval rating in the same poll dropped...
Along the way. Drosnin presents countless other vignettes of Hughes gone amok: his Ted-Turner style July 1968 attempt to take over ABC which he ultimately gave up because it would have required him to leave his penthouse and make a personal appearance before the Federal Communications Commission; his frantic efforts under both Lyndon Johnson and Nixon to stop nuclear testing in Nevada and his offers of multimillion-dollar bribes to both if they would: the transfusions of pure Mormon blood he regularly purchased from Salt Lake City because they made him feel so good; his Thanksgiving 1970 top-secret...
Just two years ago, by contrast, ABC's The Winds of War swept the nation with an average 38.6 rating over its seven nights. A month later, The Thorn Birds, also on ABC, surpassed that score with a whopping 41.9. Enticed by these colossal numbers, all three networks began developing mini-series at a rate unseen since the heady days following the ground-breaking 1977 telecast of Roots (at 45.0, still the all-time ratings champ). Such "long form" dramas, however, need out-of-the-ordinary ratings to justify their hefty production costs (a reported $32 million for Space...