TV
Viewers of Katie Couric’s talk show were doubtless surprised on Monday when, during the discussion of eating disorders, Couric disclosed that she had had her own struggles with that cruel, sometimes deadly condition. “I wrestled with bulimia all through college and for two years after that,” she said. During the hour, Couric said little more about her experience, which she had never before made public.
There was a time when the networks made the effort to give even their most legendarily awful shows evocative, unforgettable titles.
“Everybody that I talked to in L.A. said, ‘That’s the worst idea I’ve ever heard,'” Marklen Kennedy recalls. “And so from there I just kind of went, ‘Well, OK, that means it’s good.'”
Kiara Belen has something most aspiring models don’t, a competitive instinct forged as a star high school and college basketball player. Belen, 22, who grew up in Las Vegas and is completing her studies toward a sociology degree, will be among competitors on the latest edition of “America’s Next Top Model.”
News Corp. on Monday launched its new Spanish-language TV network in Las Vegas and on 49 other stations nationwide in a bid to edge out Univision and Telemundo as the largest network in the growing Hispanic market.
“Absolutely, I’m a wacko.” Danny Koker isn’t talking about some of the outrageous modifications he’s overseen at his garage, Count’s Kustoms. Or even his years as local B-movie host Count Cool Rider.