Word: peter
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...Austin; and Gore called Bush to concede. Newspapers prepared BUSH WINS! front pages that would leave them black, white and red-faced all over. And the error traveled across news web sites like a virus (including, for a while, TIME's). "Unless there is a terrible calamity," ABC's Peter Jennings called it, "George W. Bush, by our projections, is going to be the next president...
...unreachable." While Carrey set about inhabiting the character - a task that required wearing a cumbersome costume and painful contact lenses ("I defined him as a big, thick callus," says the star) - Geisel asked for numerous revisions on the screenplay, which is credited to the team of Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
...that Bush's victory in Florida and thus the nation was then announced, in order, by CNN, ABC and Fox, all of which I trust you'll find will still be in business tomorrow. Although, after the Voter News Service debacle of earlier in the evening, Peter Jennings of ABC was positively spooked by the thought of declaring any victor in the campaign, ever: "Unless there is a terrible calamity," he hedged. "George W. Bush will be the next president of the United States." Shortly after - at least in New York ABC weirdly switched, mid-report, to a commercial...
...Greatest Moment of Genuine Sympathy for Someone's Who's Generally a Media Blowhard: Rev. Jesse Jackson, clearly barely able to hold back sobs in an interview with Peter Jennings...
...into uncontrollable laughter along with the rest of the NBC studio. The anchors are punch-drunk, and so am I. A bleary-eyed election official looks like she's about to collapse into the camera on ABC. "We're not exactly sure what quite to do next," said Peter Jennings. You said it, Petey...