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...became a TV news anchor in Atlanta in 1972, the station ordered her to cut her shoulder-length hair. Mary Alice Williams was urged in 1979 by NBC's New York station to change her eye color with tinted contact lenses. Dorothy Reed was forbidden in 1980 by ABC's San Francisco station to plait her hair in corn rows. The three women, and many of their counterparts, cheered last week when Christine Craft, 38, won a $500,000 damage verdict against the former owners of a Kansas City station, KMBC, that dropped her as an anchor...
...tradition of hiring mostly young, comely women for reporters or anchors started long before consultants- in the early 1950s era of untutored "weather girls"-and is shared by the networks. TV executives say they are only bowing to audience tastes. Admits ABC News Vice President David Burke: "Women in this business face pressures that men do not, but those pressures often stem from the public." They are surely most acute on women over 40. Says Anchor Wendy Tokuda, 33, of San Francisco's KPIX: "Male broadcast journalists grow more distinguished and credible, but the women just get older." There...
...action stemmed from a fear that without such restrictions, ABC, CBS and NBC would gain virtual monopoly control over the business of supplying programs. Now, however, the FCC noted, the markets for programs have altered drastically. Independent stations and emerging cable-television and videocassette operations have taken a growing share of the TV audience away from the networks. Hence the networks' potential monopoly may not exist. The networks, under the ruling, would be allowed to finance and own up to 100% of new shows...
...weepers as One Life to Live, Search for Tomorrow, All My Children, Another World, As the World Turns and The Guiding Light, each of which she either created or once served as head writer. And now there is the freshly minted college town of Corinth, the setting for Loving, ABC's first new soap opera in eight years and Nixon's first new soap in 13. Loving, which airs daily at 11:30 a.m. E.D.T., is only five weeks old and thus far ranks among the least buoyant of the soaps: No. 11 of 13 last week...
...comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx, a German scientist in The Formula, and the British censor who prosecuted D.H. Lawrence in Priest of Love...