60 Minutes in 60 Seconds
An index to David Blum's Tick…Tick…Tick… The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes
By Staff -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/11/2004
As a service to readers who may be suffering from 60 Minutes/Dan Rather overload lately, we've boiled down David Blum's history of the newsmagazine to its most savory bits. Apologies to the impressively tressed author, but we're waiting for the Mary Mapes memoir, "Did I Mention the 'Bush Strafed El Paso' Documents?"
Bradley, Ed
married briefly to Rita Coolidge's sister, Priscilla...127
friends with Hunter Thompson...126, 201
Caller from Birmingham, Michigan
talks to Larry King Live guest Don Hewitt...244
Chronology, impossible
low-rated biweekly 60 Minutes in 1970 posited as not hurting ratings for M*A*S*H and All in the Family, CBS shows that don't exist yet....50
Dan, Gunga
see: Rather, Dan
Hewitt, Don
bitch, son of; called by Kennedy, Robert...20
kill you, I ought to; told by Sinatra, Frank...27
hits on Quinn, Sally74
tells Quinn, "Well if you won't sleep with me,"
then will sleep with Walters, Barbara...75
Kroft, Steve
difficult...181
extra-large head...187
butcher-block face...254
Rather, Dan
handsome...84
handsome...85
wardrobe in Afghanistan critiqued by Shales, Tom, as being worthy of Redgrave, Vanessa...133
Reasoner, Harry
writes novel Tell Me About Women...34
dates Dickinson, Angie...34
Rooney, Andy
Walter Cronkite knows he's not a racist...182
Sawyer, Diane
Junior Miss, 1963...155
dates Holbrooke, Richard...156
as new employee, not told
where bathrooms are...160
poses for Vanity Fair...175
60 Minutes
hallways, "F___ you!" heard often in...55
Stahl, Leslie
aggressive...193
smart...193
appealing...193
one of the most beautiful women in television news...194
household name...194
Unidentified female 60 Minutes
employee throat, Hewitt "stuck his tongue down my"...75
Vieira, Meredith
wears jeans to the office...187
brings child to office...187-188, 190-191
remember any Meredith Vieira stories; Hewitt asks "do you?"...190
Wallace, Mike
admits snapping female co-workers' bras...76
says, "I'm tired. I can't keep up this pace much longer" in 1976...112
gets pacemaker...196
suffers from gastric reflux...266
Zilch
about the scandal over dubious Bush/National Guard documents (drat those publishing-industry deadlines. Maybe for the paperback?)...1-295
