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...courageous and unique historical event. Despite the lengthy list of Arab violations of human rights, of massacres against their own people, of the uprooting of their own citizens as well as Israelis, we have yet to hear one word of self-reproach. Is this how Mr. Bisharat understands justice? Rona G. Shapiro '83-3 Chair, H-R Zionist Alliance
...Close is sometimes too close for comfort. He probes for psychic bruises and then presses them. His talent is for investigative intimacy; he is a detective of heartache because heartache makes good television. The intimacy can seem enforced and stagy, making him come off as a "touchy-feely" Rona Barrett. His digging occasionally smacks of prurience, and Cottle then resembles a small boy titillated by a naughty word. For example, he inquired of an effervescent Debbie Reynolds: "Let me ask you a naive question. Why did you send your husband Eddie Fisher over to console Elizabeth Taylor?" He also...
...Karyl Ann Mirmelstein of Newport News, Va., seemed strangely unresponsive. Her mother consulted a number of doctors, who variously attributed the child's behavior to sibling rivalry with her baby sister, a learning disability, and even mental retardation. "I knew this couldn't be true," says Rona Mirmelstein. "I could see that Kam was very bright, perhaps more so than most children." Yet it was not until Kam was six that doctors acknowledged that her problem was her hearing. The results of an elaborate series of auditory tests were perplexing. While Kam could hear the sharp sound...
...shows, once the twin props of NBC's profits, were under siege or self-destructing: Today took ratings heat from Good Morning, America; Johnny Carson cut the Tonight show from 90 minutes to an hour; Saturday Night Live was at death's door; and Tom Snyder and Rona Barrett spent as much time engaging in star wars with each other as tending to their duties on Tomorrow. Affiliate stations were deserting. Executives moved through NBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza as if on a guided tour. The bottom line dropped out just before Silverman did. In 1980, when...
...miss any bets, Billie Jean King made the rounds of the major churches and synagogues of press and television last week. She unburdened herself to ABC'S Barbara Walters, the one woman in America officially empowered to hear confessions and grant absolution. She went over the scandal with Rona Barrett. She spent ten hours with an old friend from PEOPLE...