IT’S RUSH HOUR FOR PRIME-TIME NEWSMAGS
In one of its recent editions, NBC's "Dateline" aired a report on telemarketing scams that bleed the elderly of their life savings. Three days later, ABC's "PrimeTime Live" aired a...
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THIS SEASON’S CLIFF-HANGERS LEAVE VIEWERS ASKING: SO?
Fox Mulder is dead -- and Andy Sipowicz killed him. Okay, I'm making that up. But, with the silliness that passed as cliff-hangers at the end of the '96-97 season,...
`THE SIMPSONS’ ARE IN GOOD COMPANY
When Matt Groening was a kid, he watched Jay Ward's TV cartoon series and delighted in such witty characters as Rocky and Bullwinkle, Boris and Natasha and Sherman and Mr....
BRYANT GUMBEL SERIOUS ABOUT HIS EMMY GIG
Bryant Gumbel, named recently as the solo host of the prime-time Emmy Awards to be broadcast Sept. 14 on CBS, will not: Sing. Dance. Do a comedy monologue. Be strapped...
PRIMA-DONNA RAP DOGS `GMA’S’ VARGAS
Elizabeth Vargas, news anchor for ABC's "Good Morning America," expected the media spotlight that came her way a couple of weeks ago after "GMA" co-anchor Joan Lunden announced she was...
SAN FRANCISCANS PLAY DOWN A GOLDEN GATE CLAIM TO FAME: SUICIDES
On the day he was going to kill himself, Ken Baldwin jumped into his pickup truck and drove to the Golden Gate Bridge. Monday, Aug. 12, 1985, was a beautiful...
NOTED RESTAURANT OWNER WILL STOCK UP ON WALL STREET
Famed restaurateur Harry Cipriani is buying one of the most historic buildings on Wall Street for an ornate eatery and banquet hall. Cipriani, who owns Harry Cipriani in the Sherry-Netherland...
STATING THE CASE
New Yorkers who would get hit hardest by the threatened elimination of state rent laws could be those who can least afford it, according to new statistics obtained by the...
AMERICAN VIEWERS WOULD POSE CHALLENGE FOR BRITISH
Once again, it's time to sound a warning: The British are coming! The British are coming! However, the bell signal this time around-- instead of one if by land or...
FOX DOESN’T PLAN TO TAKE LIFE EASY THIS SUMMER
Hoping to stem viewers' annual summertime defection to cable, Fox has cobbled together a warm-weather slate of new series, specials and movies, the first of which airs Sunday. "A full...