CELEBRITIES : WALTERS UNDECIDED ON EXPANDING HER `20/20' CHORES.Byline: Marilyn Beck and Stacy Jenel Smith Barbara Walters Barbara Jill Walters[1] (born September 25, 1929[2]) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows (Today and The View), an evening news magazine (20/20 , who has just returned from a monthlong vacation with her daughter and son-in-law, is under the gun to decide if she will grace the Thursday night edition of ``20/20.'' ``The show is supposed to debut in mid-September - they're already hiring producers and associate producers. They want me to host it. It's a matter of my deciding if I can do it - if I can do everything.'' There's not only the ongoing Friday night ``20/20'' with Hugh Downs Hugh Malcolm Downs (born February 14, 1921) is a retired American broadcaster, television host, producer, and author. He served as anchor of 20/20, host of The Today Show, announcer for the Tonight Show with Jack Paar, host of Concentration (who, she's sure, will do the Thursday magazine program), plus her network interview specials - there's also ``The View From Here,'' the daily ABC daytime ABC Daytime (ABCD) is a programming block on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). The Disney-ABC Television Group named Brian Frons the president of the newly created Daytime, Disney-ABC Television Group in May 2006. talk and information show she created and on which she'll serve as a member of a four-woman panel two or three times a week. She plunged into rehearsals for ``View,'' which debuts Aug. 11, the day she returned from vacation. And though she says she actually refrained from calling the office while she was on a cruise in Alaska this month, she does concede, ``They did contact me by fax. I wanted to know when something important was happening.'' TV traumas Annie Potts returns to the series grind next week, taping the first segment of her retooled ``Over the Top'' series that will debut on ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. this fall. The irrepressible Annie, who bounced from ``Designing Women'' to CBS' ``Love and War'' to ABC's ``Dangerous Minds,'' notes that when she was asked to join her friend Tim Curry Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English actor, singer and composer, perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). He also had a career as a rock musician. in the ``Over the Top'' sitcom, they were to play characters in conflict with one another in a rural New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of setting. ``That's how we shot the pilot and Michael Eisner (CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Disney, ABC's parent company) - I think it was his suggestion - said, `Why not put their true chemistry on screen?' That's what we're doing - and now we have me playing the owner of a small hotel in Manhattan, where Tim, an actor on the skids, lives.'' As the story goes, their characters are friends who were married to each other 20 years ago for 12 days. As their real relationship goes, says Annie, ``We're so close that he even found us the home we bought last year - we live next door to each other.'' Annie is married to director Jim Hayman. They have three children, ages 16 months to 16 years. The best-laid plans Still no telling when Bette Midler will be able to step before the cameras in a big-screen version of ``Green Acres.'' The script, says producer David Permut, continues to need work. It's being retooled, and until it's in tip-top shape, he won't even start looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a leading man. Permut does have a completed script for ``Love Boat, the Movie,'' written by director Savage Steve Holland with Leslie Nielsen likely to be aboard as the captain of the good ship. As for cast, there will be ``lots of cameos in the spirit of what the series was. But also lots of rising stars - the movie will be hip, with a contemporary sensibility and will be very irreverent.'' He's hoping the ``Boat'' will pull away from dock by year's end. One hot number Duran Duran just finished shooting a video in London for ``Electric Barbarella,'' the first single off its forthcoming ``Medazzaland'' album. The vintage sci-fi movie's a favorite of the Duran Duran boys, who even named their group for the character Jane Fonda is trying to find in it. Anyway, the video - the first to be directed by famed fashion photog pho·tog n. Informal A person who takes photographs, especially as a profession; a photographer. Ellen Von Unwerth Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954 in Germany) is a photographer and director, specializing in erotic femininity. She worked as a fashion model for ten years herself before moving behind the camera, and now makes fashion, editorial, and advertising photographs. - features band members Simon LeBon, Nick Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo taking home their own android An open platform for cellphones from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Based on Linux, Android includes a library of Java classes for building mobile applications. Android and GPhone babe and playing around with her. Then she goes haywire and starts electrocuting everyone she kisses. The video and single are due in September, the album in October. The waiting game Stephen Cannell's updated version of ``Hawaii Five-O'' didn't make the CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. lineup for fall, but don't count the project dead in the water yet. We understand the network is considering the series - which would feature a new team of crack crime fighters - for a midseason replacement slot. Meanwhile ... Cannell's plans for a big-screen ``The A-Team'' aren't coming together as fast as planned. After Universal gave a thumbs up to the script, it was decided the story could be better, and new drafts of the screenplay are now being written. No telling when casting will start. Meanwhile, Cannell has finished the screenplay for his current ``King Con'' novel and is halfway through penning his fourth nonfiction book. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) Barbara Walters Heavier workload (2) Annie Potts In sync with co-star |
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