Word: harbert
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...Reported by Nancy Harbert and David S. Jackson/Albuquerque and Massimo Calabresi, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...Reported by Nancy Harbert and David S. Jackson/Albuquerque and Massimo Calabresi, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington
Five days before the new Twenty One aired, NBC Studios president Ted Harbert and Garth Ancier, president of entertainment for the network, were still putting the show together, including the racial composition of the sequined, leggy babes who lead contestants onstage. They wanted ethnic diversity but feared that a black or Latino woman would conjure up stereotypes of subservient minorities opening doors. The show is to be a dumbed-down version of the rigged show from the '50s. But it's refreshingly unafraid of its past, choosing to copy its set design from the Robert Redford movie about the scandal...