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...journalists conceded that in battle, caution may matter less than fate. The war-hardened correspondents' judgment on their slain peers: Torgerson and Cross had run out of luck. (Indeed, only chance limited the deaths to two: Stringers Susan Morgan of London's Economist and Marcia Johnson of ABC and the Los Angeles Times, dropped out of the trip...
...Poland charged during the papal visit in 1979. And for the first time in John Paul's travels, Vatican correspondents were billed for accreditation and for buses to follow him. Among the biggest bills: $1 million for the U.S. network NBC, about $600,000 each for CBS and ABC. One big consolation: the Poles, in their eagerness for hard currencies, accepted credit cards...
Bellows is reportedly negotiating a move to ABC to produce a new fall newsmagazine. The latest force behind the show is Executive Producer George Merlis, who was hired last month. As the former executive producer of both CBS Morning News (which he is credited with resuscitating) and ABC's Good Morning America, programs featuring an informal style, celebrity interviews and light stories, Merlis helped create not only a precedent but an appetite for a show like...
...itself is now a precedent. This summer ABC is trying out a limited series called Eye on Hollywood, which will report on life among the glitterati. Last March, Cable News Network started a weekly series called Hollywood Journal. A syndicated show called Ebony Jet Celebrity Showcase, featuring profiles of black stars, premiered in 62 markets around the country in April. Andy Warhol, the celebrity's celebrity, palely presides over his new syndicated program, which since May has followed the frolics of the beautiful and the damned...
...deal with a domestic record company. The sound-track album of their second film, Una Aventura Llamada Menudo (An Adventure Called Menudo), was a bestseller all spring (No. 1 in New York and California) on Latin record charts. In the fall comes their first serious "crossover" attempt: Menudo on ABC, a series of four-minute spots in English as well as Spanish, will be aired by the network Saturday mornings...