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EDITORIAL FINANCE: Genevieve Christy (Manager); Esther Cedeno, Morgan Krug, Katherine Young (Domestic); Camille Sanabria, Carl Harmon, Sheila Charney, Aston Wright (News Service); Linda D. Vartoogian, Wayne Chun, Edward Nana Osei-Bonsu (Pictures...
...time." But his defeat in 1980 after his first term as Governor changed that. Critics say his joining Immanuel Baptist Church, whose services are televised throughout the state, was nothing but an attempt to build goodwill with Arkansas voters. But, says his longtime chief of staff in Arkansas, Betsey Wright, "people overlook what a traumatic occurrence that defeat was. Getting himself into a church family was very important in terms of overcoming what he regarded as his own personal failure...
...quick to spread the credit for his success to a loyal and veteran production crew. His wardrobe man, Glenn Wright, has been with him since Rawhide in the early '60s. Cameraman Jack Green has worked on 18 Eastwood films, and production designer Henry Bumstead has been on board for two decades. "Henry Bumstead likes to say that I take the bullsout of moviemaking. It's pros like Henry who do that for me," says Eastwood. "All I'm doing is encouraging them...
There are, to be sure, candidates actively seeking the job from both inside and outside, including interim boss Donald Browne. But few fully meet the criteria privately articulated by NBC's corporate president Robert Wright: experience in news, experience in television and, most important, "high profile." Says one broadcast news veteran whom Wright has consulted: "He has been telling everyone that he'd like most to get Koppel or Moyers. He likes the idea of instant credibility...
...some people involved in the selection process, Wright's criteria imply that he sees NBC News' problems as primarily public relations and that he hopes installing an eminent journalist can diffuse them. But as acting president Browne acknowledges, many inside NBC -- plus one candidate from outside -- think the recent difficulties directly result from the staff cuts as NBC's parent company, General Electric, turned the news division from a $126 million money loser in 1988 to an anticipated $20 million profit earner this year. Browne says Wright has promised that "there will be more personnel," but to at least...