Former NBC News anchor Garrick Utley has died after a long battle with cancer, the network reported on Friday's Today, with Tom Brokaw also confirming the news that his longtime friend and colleague had died in a note to NBC News staffers. After reporting from Vietnam and from throughout Europe as a foreign correspondent, Utley served as host of Meet the Press and Sunday's edition of Today. He first joined the network as a researcher on The Huntley-Brinkley Report before serving as NBC's first Saigon bureau chief and running the network's London and Paris bureaus, Brokaw wrote. Q&A: NBC
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- 2/21/2014
- by Hilary Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
She was a puppeteer, philanthropist and founder of The Jim Henson Legacy.
Jane Henson died in her Connecticut home on April 2, 2013 after a long battle with cancer. A tribute page celebrating Jane and featuring images from her life can be found at http://www.henson.com/jane.html. A memorial mass is planned for next week. Donations may be sent in memory of Jane Henson to the following: Center for Puppetry Arts http://puppet.org/contribute/donation.shtml The Jim Henson Foundation for the support of puppetry http://hensonfoundation.org/ The Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theater Center http://www.theoneill.org/
Jane Nebel Henson met Jim Henson in a puppetry class at the University of Maryland and soon after became an integral creative and business partner in what would become the world famous Muppets.
As a fine arts education major studying at the University of Maryland...
Jane Henson died in her Connecticut home on April 2, 2013 after a long battle with cancer. A tribute page celebrating Jane and featuring images from her life can be found at http://www.henson.com/jane.html. A memorial mass is planned for next week. Donations may be sent in memory of Jane Henson to the following: Center for Puppetry Arts http://puppet.org/contribute/donation.shtml The Jim Henson Foundation for the support of puppetry http://hensonfoundation.org/ The Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Memorial Theater Center http://www.theoneill.org/
Jane Nebel Henson met Jim Henson in a puppetry class at the University of Maryland and soon after became an integral creative and business partner in what would become the world famous Muppets.
As a fine arts education major studying at the University of Maryland...
- 4/3/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Apparently, it wasn't The Ed Sullivan Show, as most of us think.
Sure, that was their first major, nationwide U.S. TV appearance where they actually performed, but what show did they first appear on in general? When Walter Cronkite died recently, CBS showed footage of Cronkite's CBS Evening News broadcast from December 1963 -- a rebroadcast of what ran on the CBS Morning Show on November 22; it was going to run on Cronkite's show that night too but you can guess why it didn't -- where they showed footage of an interview that someone did with the group. Sullivan saw the footage and called Cronkite because he wanted them on his show.
But now Brian Williams' NBC Nightly News blog says that the group's first appearance was actually a few days earlier, on November 18, a piece by Edwin Newman on The Huntley-Brinkley Report.Continue reading When did The Beatles make their U.
Sure, that was their first major, nationwide U.S. TV appearance where they actually performed, but what show did they first appear on in general? When Walter Cronkite died recently, CBS showed footage of Cronkite's CBS Evening News broadcast from December 1963 -- a rebroadcast of what ran on the CBS Morning Show on November 22; it was going to run on Cronkite's show that night too but you can guess why it didn't -- where they showed footage of an interview that someone did with the group. Sullivan saw the footage and called Cronkite because he wanted them on his show.
But now Brian Williams' NBC Nightly News blog says that the group's first appearance was actually a few days earlier, on November 18, a piece by Edwin Newman on The Huntley-Brinkley Report.Continue reading When did The Beatles make their U.
- 9/9/2009
- by Bob Sassone
- Aol TV.
NEW YORK -- CBS Evening News With Katie Couric is getting an important endorsement from legendary newscaster Walter Cronkite, one of Katie Couric's predecessors in the anchor chair. The 89-year-old Cronkite said that he's a fan of her newscast. "It seems to me it's coming around," Cronkite said during the News & Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony Monday night in New York. "It's like any other brand-new program; it has to feel its way through, but I think it's doing quite well." Cronkite's newscast was known for its just-the-facts approach to the news and along with NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report set the tone for the evening news that exists to this day. Yet in her debut, Couric's approach to the newscast has been more featurey. The former Today co-anchor has been anything but shy about adapting the stolid newscast, introducing elements like Free Speech into the program.
- 9/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Ernest Leiser, a pioneering foreign correspondent and producer for CBS News in the 1950s who helped expand the unit's documentary and news coverage in the 1960s, has died. He was 81. Leiser died Nov. 26 in his sleep of an apparent heart attack. He joined CBS News in 1953 as a correspondent for the science series Adventure and then became a part of the network's elite corps of foreign correspondents, which included Eric Sevareid and Charles Collingwood. Mainly, he reported from Europe, where the ruling Communists in Hungary jailed him briefly while he was covering the 1956 revolt. But Leiser gained most of his notoriety working behind the scenes. He started out co-producing such broadcasts as Eyewitness to History and coverage of the John F. Kennedy-Richard Nixon presidential campaign in 1960. Later, he made his mark helping to produce CBS News' continuous coverage of Kennedy's assassination in 1963. The network named him director of news in 1964 and then executive producer of CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite, where he helped the show pass NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report in the ratings.
- 12/3/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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