European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Rather focuses again on life beyond the camera by Frazier Moore a television writer. In his new Book High flying Dari rather recalls his sinking feeling when he spied a Large rat aboard a China air Dan rather tells of life install town Texas where proper Young ladies would Blush at the word intersection " and smokeless Dan rather pays Tongue in Cheek tribute to the thing your wife and your Mother would sooner shoot you than let you do Chew to Bacco. that last topic arose during his recent appearance on late show with Javid Letterman talk of rather just published the camera never blinks twice the further adventures of a television journalist Lead As night leads into Day to a tobacco spit Ting demonstration by the lbs news Anchor you make that Tom Brokaw look like a Little girl crowed Letterman As rather s beechnut mis Sile straight lined into the Spittoon. Adding to Dave s reverie moments earlier he himself had sampled a few Stra rids of Redman which he promptly swallowed. A i thought to myself god almighty Dan rather reports the next Day. He began to turn green.1 but rather addresses weightier issues than rats and tobacco in his companion Memoir to the 1977. Best seller the camera never blinks. In Tiv be for which lifelong Friend Mickey Herskowitz returned As Collaborator rather tells of his secret journey in 1980 to cover the War in Afghanistan. Of camping in the desert during the per Sian Gulf War a decade later. Of being on hand for the student revolt in Tiana men Square and the fall of the Berlin Wall and the . Military operation in Somalia. / v y v a a. A the Book is made up of stories Tell friends and relatives rather says Over lunch in a favorite Tex mex restaurant in new York his bold Anchorman s voice dropping almost to a whisper for dramatic effect when you be had a Cuppie of Sarsaparilla and you re talking in the Shank of the it was evenings Between 10 and 2, when rather put the Isi tories Down he says although a few times i started writing and the next thing i knew Jean was up fixing Coffee arid turning on the morning news. You get zoned and the hours Fly rather Means for his Book to give an inside look at the to rid of to news. Best Sellers lbs cd Anchorman Dan rather in Vietnam last year. It also lets him get a few things off his Chest like his Side of what happened during the evening news blackout in september 1987 when As he writes six minutes of my life disappeared and in a chapter titled whose ambush was it rather returns to the explosive 1988 interview with George Bush when on live to either a our hos tile Anchor spent nine Long minutes badgering the vice president of the United states or b a news Man doing his Job tried to get a straight answer from a presidential candidate whose evasive tactics included crying foul and hurling his own cheap shots Back at the interviewer. So who was rude to whom rather makes a persuasive Case for band As with the rest of the Book does so with unfailing manners May seem an archaic approach for a journalist says this Man of southwestern Pali Tesse who in his 60s, still says a but i can recommend it and that May be the prevailing lesson of the camera never blinks twice and its author is pleased to get the word put ". Y y Friend called me when he saw the first copies on Sale rather says i went right away to the Bookstore to take a look. It s a very special thing to see it. I Felt like a child. V v but right behind that comes a sense of vulnerability he confides. "t6 have the Book out there be comes a scary nonsense. This is a Book that anyone even George Bush can enjoy. And maybe even learn something Winch Ell s spin by Paul Golford new Day was there Ever a season when so Many gossipy sordid and celebrity driven books were vying for at Tention five new titles about Charles and i. Two about Marlon Brando. One about Michael Jackson. Roseanne s sister tells All i. Nicole Simpson s pal looks Back. Burt Reynolds side., and soon. Wal Ter Winchell 1897-1.972 would have been in his Glor. In the 30s and 40s, the legendary and ruthless gossip Meister reached As Many 50 million people two thirds of the grown up population in the United states with his National radio program and widely syndicated column in new York s daily Mirror. His it Dio broadcasts Good evening or. And mrs. America and All the ships at sea Drew an incredible 60 percent of All listeners tuned url their sets. It s a life freshly chronicled appropriately in this season of personality Ink in Winc Liell Knopf by Nea Gabler. His 681-Page Book offers sweeping social history in addition to Gritty biography. It s sub titled gossip Power tint the culture of celebrity be cause the trajectory of Winchell s third rate vaudevillian to tabloid Tattler to multimedia giant to embittered has been allows the author to illustrate,.rich themes about the evolution of american Media the decline in journalistic Stan Dards and the corrosive Power of Fame. Were Winchell alive today i. Think he would have been tremendously frustrated that he could t monopolize this kind of information Gabler said at lunch the other Day. Now thanks largely to Walter Winchell there Are a thousand outlets. There s peo ple Magazine vanity fair hard copy Star mag. his column was dropped by the world Jour Nal Tribune in 1967, ending Winchell s 38-year Asso Ciatyk i with the Hearst organization its him adrift. He died from los Angeles and was buried incongruously for the Bard of Broadway in the Arizona desert. New York times list hardback fiction 1 insomnia by slip Hen King last week 1 weeks on isl 22taltosby Annc Ricc a Olweck 2 weeks Lisl. ".". 3 debt of Honor by Las week .3 weeks on list Al. 4 the cell Stone prophecy by James re Gloekl last pm 4 week s on list 35 5 politically Correct bedtime stories by James finn Garner isl cos a weeks on list 20. V. 6 lord of chaos by Reber Jordan firs week on Iii ,7 nothing lasts forever by Sidney Sheldon last week .5 weeks on list. 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