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...dream that will soon go public. The proceedings, staged before a large and increasingly stupefied audience last week, will be shorn of the technical glitches, gaping pauses and personal faux pas that lent the show a kind of desperate piquancy. Edited down for a three-hour ABC time slot, Night of 100 Stars will be sent out over the air waves on March 8 with a scenario jerry-built by 100 Stars Writer-Producer Hildy Parks, who with Husband Alexander Cohen conspires yearly to mount TV's Tony Awards show. Viewers delirious to watch Al Pacino, Leonard Nimoy...
...press coverage of its flammable affairs than Israel. When it does not like what it sees, the Israeli government is quick to express its displeasure to newsmen. But rarely is the criticism as pointed, as personal or as outrageous as it was last week. Angered by a report on ABC'S 20/20 describing Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, Ze'ev Chafets, director of the government press office, charged that certain U.S. and European news organizations suppress negative stories on Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization because they fear terrorist reprisals. The supposed culprits...
...Anchorman Dan Rather, 50, who had struck some viewers as chilly after the avuncular Walter Cronkite, took to wearing a sleeveless, V-necked pullover on his newscasts some three months ago. Perhaps not so coincidentally, he has since reclaimed Cronkite's traditional top spot ahead of NBC and ABC. Says Rather: "God knows what would happen if you put a ring in your nose." Without going that far, Rather is prepared to stay bundled up through the summer. "If it takes wearing a sweater when it's 112 degrees," he vows, "we'll turn...
...hand, a hair dryer in the other. Dress is informal; in fact, it is nonexistent. Introductions are made. The host is: a) Diane Sawyer, co-host of CBS's Morning show, making an all-out bid to win the war of the a.m. news programs; b) ABC's David Hartman, doing the same; or c) Lassie, doing what comes naturally...
...presenting stories. Perhaps this is one reason why CBS, best and haughtiest of the news organizations, has gone to its sports division to find the new head of CBS News, Van Gordon Sauter, 46. CBS and NBC were the first to sneer 4½ years ago, when ABC chose its sports wonder Roone Arledge to head both ABC News and Sports. Arledge sent Sauter a wry congratulatory telegram, suggesting that CBS obviously knew the right place to look for a new news boss...