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TIME: JULY 10, 11 (DEBUT...
...with its cinema verite immediacy, and the style-setting 60 Minutes), most of these shows seem interchangeable. Efforts to find gimmicks (a live studio audience on PrimeTime Live, for one regrettable example) have been mostly jettisoned in favor of the tried-and- true 60 Minutes formula. Before the March debut of Day One, executive producer Tom Yellin promised that the show would feature some longer stories and a mold-breaking format: "If our program is three pieces of the same length and then a light, short piece at the end, then we will have failed." After early shows drew criticism...
...other words, Streisand and Broadway are a perfect match. She launched her career in 1962 with a debut in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale and springboarded to the movies after her starring role in 1964's Funny Girl. In 1985 she scored an enormous success with The Broadway Album, a collection of songs by such composers as Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein. Her non-Broadway hits have never been very credible, and they've proved to have the shelf life of sugary foodstuffs on convenience-store shelves. It's hard to listen to You Don't Bring...
Kinsley, who had been writing for the New Republic since he was 25 (he is now 42), became a TIME essayist largely because he found the thought of writing for an audience roughly 50 times the size of his regular one irresistible. Before his debut, though, he was a bit dubious about this magazine's ways; he commented quizzically on our practice of distilling vast numbers of words into the tiny percentage that see print. Now he is part of the process: a recent Essay he wrote about taxes somehow never appeared. Is he bothered? "Goes with the territory...
TIME: JUNE 23, 8 P.M. E.S.T., CBS (DEBUT...