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...Once the top-ranked network anchor, Rather spent most of the summer stuck in third place, behind NBC's Tom Brokaw and ABC's Peter Jennings. But Rather may soon have reason to smile again: in trial runs of the new "people meter" rating system, which made its official debut last week, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather finished in first place. No details, however, about how those six minutes of CBS Evening News Without Dan Rather fared...
...remember how different a show we were proposing," says Werner. "Instead of getting laughs from arguments and conflicts between the husband and wife, we were going for subtler humor." NBC decided to take a chance on it, with no expectations of a blockbuster hit. But the show's debut episode hit the Nielsen top ten, and by midseason had taken firm hold of the No. 1 spot. The Cosby Show's huge success boosted NBC's entire Thursday-night schedule, helped lift the network from last place to first in the ratings and has given nightmares to opposing-network executives...
...company was doing to solve the problem within its own ranks. It was an appropriate question. Time Inc. was then in the process of putting together a pilot child-care program for its New York City employees. The new venture, called the Work and Family Program, will make its debut this week. Says Jane Cummins, an assistant manager in Human Resources and a member of the planning committee: "We want to provide a full service for employees with children of all ages...
...annual Academy Awards to honor the best films of 2017. I'm your host, Drew Barrymore, and I'm pleased to begin the evening by presenting the Irving G. Spielberg Award to a man who, some say, has long deserved an Oscar as best actor. Perhaps for his starring debut, in which he courageously demolished racial stereotypes by playing a poor black child ((clip from The Jerk)). Or for the holy rage he summoned as he renounced Kathleen Turner with a ferocious "Into the mud, scum queen!" ((clip from The Man with Two Brains)). And who can forget his transsexual...
...deceptively bland George Smiley, so Brian Freemantle has managed to write six captivating novels featuring scruffy, wily Charlie Muffin. He is a brilliant survivor who in his time has outwitted the Soviets, the Chinese, the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia and his own British service, which early in his debut novel set him up to be killed. In See Charlie Run (Bantam; 278 pages; $15.95), Muffin is back managing a defection that almost no one wants to see succeed. Alas, it is harder to imagine a return of the investigative journalist who digs through the smoldering ashes of two-decades...