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TV coverage of GOP to mirror Democrats
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — TV coverage of the Republican National Convention in Houston will mirror that given to the Democratic convention last month.
There's "beyond gavel to gavel" on CNN. There's half-a-gavel to a gavel-and-a-half on broadcast TV and a rubber gavel on Comedy Central. C-SPAN's coverage, again, runs gavel to gavel to gavel to gavel.
ABC, CBS and NBC, depending on the night, has scheduled late prime-time coverage in one-hour, 90-minute and two-hour blocks.
Peter Jennings and David Brinkley will anchor ABC's coverage from the
Astrodome at 9 tonight and 8 p.m. tomorrow.
ABC's "Nightline" also will air from Houston, as will "World News Tonight" and "World News This Morning."
CBS" coverage, anchored by Dan Rather in Houston, mirrors ABC's, but will extend to 11:15 p.m. today, subject to preemption by local news. "CBS Evening News," "Face the Nation" and "Sunday Morning" also will originate from Houston.
The experimental team-up of NBC and PBS continues for the Republican convention, beginning nightly at 7
Brokaw breaks away for NBC's coverage at 9 tonight and 8:30 p.m. tomorrow.
p. m., when Robert MacNeil and James Lehrer of PBS "NewsHour" team with NBC anchor Tom Brokaw.
ABC's "Good Morning America" will originate from Houston. "CBS This Morning" co-anchor Harry Smith will report from Houston, as will NBC's "Today" co-anchor Katie Couric on Wednesday and Thursday.
On cable, CNN's "beyond gavel-to-gavel" coverage, anchored by Bernard Saw and Catherine Crier,
C-SPAN's coverage will be continuous and without commentary, using its own 19-camera video setup and a 65-person production crew, instead of the live podium feed provided to all newsgathering organizations.
will run nightly from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
CBNC plans live coverage of the convention during its daytime business programming, with analysis from Houston, Washington, and New York, as well its daily "Money Politics: Campaign 92" half-hour at 5 p.m.
MTV's Tabitha Soren returns to cover the Republicans, teamed this time with rock guitarist Ted Nugent,
featuring interviews with delegates, protesters and comparison of the party platforms.
Comedy Central will live to the Astrodome from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. today and tomorrow, anchored by writer-comedian Al Franken in New York City, with New York magazine writer Calvin Trillin as floor reporter.
Other featured Comedy Central guests include former Nixon aide Ben Stein, "Match Game" show host Gene Rayburn and writers Joe Queenan, Roy Boulton Jr., and John Bloom, better known as red-neck movie critic "Joe Bob Briggs."
ABC, CBS and NBC has scheduled late prime-time coverage in one-hour, 90-minute and two hour blocks.
Television coverage of the GOP convention
C-SPAN's coverage will be continuous.
CNN will feature "beyond gavel to-gavel" coverage.
Julia Child, at 80, still cooking
The Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Get this straight: Julia Child did not drop a chicken on the floor on television, even though fans will swear to her that they saw it.
Which is not to say she didn't make mistakes on the air. As it turned out, those mistakes were the key to the success of "The French Chef", which debated on public television in February 1963.
Three years later, Time magazine remarked that New York matrons refused to go out to dinner when Child was on television.
Well, this Saturday, when Child turns 80, matrons and fans of all kinds should sharpen their knives, turn on lights, and refuse all invitations to go out.
Two specials, "Julia Child at 80" and "A Taste of Norway with Julia Child," will air on public television, and some stations are rebroadcasting Child's cooking shows. WGBH in Boston, for example, plans eight hours of Julia Child.
"Julia Child at 80" is a charming half-hour profile, with Christopher Lydon interviewing Child at her Cambridge home about food, nutrition, pesticides and feminism, among other topics.
The program includes old photographs of a young Child and of her husband, Paul. Best of all, there are clips from her cooking shows.
The small budget in the early days at WGBH was partly responsible for the prattfalls. "We didn't stop. We had 271/2 minutes. If you stopped, it cost too much money." Child said.
All to the good for viewers. They got
taught, and they learned how to fix all
things.
The dropped chicken of legend. Child speculated in an interview this week, was probably the potato pancake that flipped from pan to stovetop. She returned it to the pan, advising, "If we're alone in the kitchen, who is going to see?"
It's just so much fun to hear her talk about "buttery, beautiful, lemon-rich, eggy hollandaise sauce" or to watch her slam a mallet onto the counter and giggle a little before saying. "I'm Julia Child."
Child was 51 when she made her television debut, and went on to win a Peabody award in 1965 and an Emmy in 1966.
She understood the power of her television presence, but her enthusiasm and humor, and the relaxed atmosphere on the set, may also have
led to the rumors that she took a swig from a wine bottle, "which I would never do," she said.
A well-known wine writer actually wrote that in a book, Child said. "The book didn't do very well," she said. "It serves him right."
Paul Child, a diplomat, was cultural affairs attache in Oslo in the 1950s, and Julia Child returns there for "A Taste of Norway," an hour-long travelogue produced by her longtime friend and producer Russell Morash.
She visits tourist spots, her old house and Norwegian television cook Ingrid Espelid Hovig.
The worst part of these two programs is that they make fans realize just how much Child is missed on television. But they won't have to rely on rurnes forever — only until the fall of 1993.
Child is at work on a new series in which chefs from around the country will teach. "They're not to be showing off," she said.
And she will be host. "I've always wanted to do something in which I was the Mrs. Alistair Cooke." she said.
A reviewer once called "The French Chef" as campy as "Batman," but Child wasn't aiming for camp. "It's just the way I do things," she said.
Lucky us.
Debating the effect of music, movies
The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. — As the world argued over whether Ice-T's song "Cop Killer" advocated violence against police, an admitted serial killer who said he was inspired by the movie "Robocap" was on the loose in uplate New York.
The debate continues: Do violent music and movies stimulate violence?
"I did exactly what I seen in the movie," said White, 32. "When I looked at TV, I would see a movie and something violent would happen—and it just seems to sink in."
Nathaniel White, who was charged this month with killing six women, said after his arrest that he used a "Robocop" murder as his model when he cut the throat of his first victim and slit him with a knife from chest to stomach.
Video store operators in White's neighborhood in Middletown, 55 miles northwest of New York City, said he had rented a steady stream of violent movies, including "Double Impact," "Hitman," "Lethal Obsession" and "Deadly Hands of Kung Fu."
"Violent entertainment is the new drug in our society and the producers of this entertainment are the new drug dealers," said Carole Lieberman, a Beverly Hills, Calif., lawmaker. He and his coalition on Television Violence
That entertainment, many say,
includes the new style of "gangster"
rap music. Some, by groups like the
Geto Boys and N.W.A., is like aural
slasher movies, describes shootings
and other crimes. The Los
Angeles group Cypress Hill had a
hit with a song called "How I Could
Just Kill a Man."
A test case came when the parents of two Nevada youngsters charged that subliminal messages in music by the rock group Judas Priest inspired suicide attempts by their children. A court in 1990 said the band was not liable for damages.
Later, John Hinckley's obsession with actress Jodie Foster in the movie "Taxi Driver" led to his assassination attempt on President Reagan.
The debate over the effects of violent entertainment dates at least from the 1960s, when Charles Manson cited the Beatles "Heater Skelter" as the soundtrack for a murder spree.
After the Los Angeles riots, law
enforcement groups noticed the gunshots, obscentities and shouts of "Die, pig, die!" in Ice-T's song "Cop Killer" and called for a boycott of Time Warner Inc. products.
Ice-Tissisted he is not advocating violence, and the record has not been cited in any violence against police. The musician said he is playing a character who is fed up with police brutality — and he wondered why he gets more grief than movie stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"Whether this guy, the cop killer in my song, is real or not, believe it, there are people at that point," IceT told the Los Angeles Times. "But anybody who says that my record is going to make them go over that point, that's... No record can take a man to that point."
One study on the effect of violent entertainment on children showed only a small minority of already disturbed children engage in imitative behavior, said Louis West, a psychiatrist at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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