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After 54 years, David Brinkley ended his broadcasting career with a nod to the Bard.
"On this, my last word here on ABC, I quote Shakespeare, who said 'All's well that ends well.' My time here now ends extremely well. Thank you," Brinkley said on "This Week," a show he began in 1981 as "This Week With David Brinkley."
Less than a year ago, Brinkley stepped down as host of the Sunday morning news show, but continued his weekly commentaries.
Brinkley, 77, launched his broadcasting career at 23, covering President Franklin Roosevelt. As half of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley anchor team in the 1960s, Brinkley's short, clipped sentences and dry wit were much imitated.
"Years ago, young newspaper and radio reporters like me looked at the first flickering bluish pictures of the brand new tiny television screens ... and wondered if we would ever learn to work with them," Brinkley said in his final commentary.
Brinkley said the network paid him to do what he liked to do, "asking only that I do it well and do it honestly."
Mills Lane, the boxing referee who disqualified Mike Tyson for biting heavyweight champ Evander Holyfield, is a wanted man. TV producers are pestering him to become the next Judge Wapner.
Lane, a Reno, Nev., judge who moonlights as a ring referee, is weighing an offer to become host of a "People's Court"-style TV show.
"I think America would take to this guy big time," said producer Bob Young, who hopes to get the show on the air.
The syndicated program "The People's Court" is back on the air with former New York Mayor Ed Koch replacing Joseph Wapner on the bench.
Lane, who stopped the June 28 bout in Las Vegas after Tyson twice bit Holyfield's ear, told Daily Variety that the producers knew how to catch his attention. "What did Jerry Maguire say? 'Show me the money."'
Running from celebrity status can be grueling -- take it from Prince Albert of Monaco.
"I can give you countless accounts of different car chases in Paris in which 15 to 20 photographers were trying to follow us or use their cars to create road blocks," the prince said recently. "Fortunately, these were never at high speed."
Britain's Princess Diana died following an Aug. 31 auto crash with her boyfriend Dodi Fayed and their driver, Henri Paul. Authorities said Paul was legally drunk and were investigating reports that paparazzi were in pursuit.
Albert's mother, movie star Grace Kelly, was killed in a 1982 car crash. He said he has tried to protect his younger sisters, princesses Stephanie and Caroline, from publicity.
"I can't always be there to protect them. They've been under intense scrutiny from the press and harassed by the press and the paparazzi," he said while in Mobile, Ala., to accept the United States Sports Academy's Eagle Award.
The longtime Beverly Hills, Calif., home of the late Jimmy Stewart has been put on the market for $6.7 million.
The 6,300-square-foot home owned by Stewart for nearly 50 years has five bedrooms, staff quarters and a three-bedroom guest house.
Stewart, star of such films as "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," was 89 when he died July 2.
Getting used to working for CNN and CBS at the same time was tough for Christiane Amanpour.
"It was frustrating at first. I didn't know the system. I had one foot in one pond and another in another pond," Amanpour says in the Oct. 4 TV Guide. "There were early hiccups, but now I feel like I've been burped."
Last year, the 39-year-old CNN foreign correspondent signed an unprecedented $2 million deal to be a special correspondent for CBS' "60 Minutes" while continuing to work for the cable channel.
The independence she's allowed at CNN didn't prepare her for a major network.
"Nobody has ever tried to tell me to dress a certain way, look a certain way, think a certain way or talk a certain way," Amanpour said. "'60 Minutes' has been an adjustment, but it's one I'm willing to try and make."
Bulletin: Khandi Alexander is leaving "NewsRadio."
"I have thoroughly enjoyed playing the role of Catherine Duke over the last three seasons," Alexander said this week from Los Angeles, Calif. "But, at this point in my career, I feel it is an appropriate time to move on and explore other opportunities."
The actress who also had a recurring role on "ER" will be missed.
"I'm sad to see her go," said Paul Simms, executive producer of the NBC sitcom.
The last time Larry Gatlin's Texas high school won the big game against its crosstown rival, the year was 1964 and he was the quarterback.
After the Odessa High School Bronchos ended 33 years of frustration against the mighty Permian High Panthers, Gatlin joined in the celebration.
"Hallelujah ... hallelujah! That's my comment on the victory," Gatlin said this week when contacted at his Myrtle Beach, S.C., home. "And they said it couldn't be done."
Gatlin, a 1966 Odessa High graduate, remembers playing the entire 1964 game on a broken foot.
He returned to the Bronchos' two-a-day football workouts last August to meet with the team, and ended by giving a pep talk that he called "just a visit with the boys."
But some Bronchos fans said Gatlin's presence in this West Texas town bridged the 33-year confidence gap between victories.
Gatlin, with brothers Steve and Rudy, had numerous country music hits in the late 1970s and '80s, including "All The Gold In California," "Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer To You)" and "Broken Lady."
In the movie "The Edge," Alec Baldwin battles Anthony Hopkins. In real life, his rival is New York's Republican Party.
State Democratic Party chairwoman Judith Hope said Baldwin wants to help bring down the GOP's Gov. George Pataki and Sen. Alfonse D'Amato in next year's elections.
"He feels very strongly that Pataki can be beaten and he feels even more strongly that D'Amato can be beaten," Hope said.
Baldwin's interest comes as the struggling New York Democratic Party opened its fall meeting this week. Baldwin was not at the meeting, but Hope said he has offered to campaign for Democratic candidates and to do some fund raising.
Both Baldwin, who is from Long Island, and his wife, Kim Basinger, have long been activists for various social causes. He has promoted everything from funding for the arts to campaign finance reform legislation.
Earlier this month, Basinger and other animal rights activists pressured a New Jersey laboratory to turn over 40 beagles to the American Humane Association. The dogs were being used for osteoporosis research.
Hope said she didn't expect Basinger to join Baldwin on the political circuit.
"She's saving beagles. He's saving Democrats," she said.
It was an interview on the wild side for a British journalist who said rocker Lou Reed was so rude that she walked out.
"I've never come across someone so ridiculous and arrogant," Joanna Coles, New York bureau chief for The Guardian, told the New York Post. "Obviously he's used to behaving terribly and everybody taking it."
Coles, who has interviewed O.J. Simpson, Mikhail Gorbachev and Tony Blair for her London newspaper, met Reed last week in Manhattan to talk about a video production of his song "Perfect Day" from the "Transformer" album. As the two were walking to a cafe, Coles asked Reed what he was working on.
"Are you starting this interview? Because you've got exactly 30 minutes," Cole said Reed snapped.
Reed then lashed out at Coles during the interview for asking if he had children ("How dare you ask me such a personal question!") and for asking if he had been paid to do the production with the BBC ("That's an offensive question!"). At that point, Coles walked out.
"He shouted after me pathetically, 'Oh please, can't we be friends?"' Coles said. "It must have been terribly embarrassing."
Coles didn't write the story about Reed, and Reed called the BBC to complain. He declined to comment to the Post.
Newly crowned Miss America Katherine Shindle is anxious to get out on the speech circuit and talk about AIDS.
"I can't wait to get out and start speaking, because there's so much to be done," the 20-year-old told the audience recently at a fund raiser for AIDS. "I've been so into HIV prevention for a couple of years."
Shindle went from Miss Illinois to Miss America on Sept. 13 at the annual pageant in New Jersey, where she was born. The aspiring actress was a theater and sociology student at Northwestern University.
Shindle made headlines immediately after the pageant when it was disclosed her father had served on the board of the Miss America Organization. She said her father took a leave of absence several months before the pageant so there wouldn't be a conflict of interest.
"She seems really down to earth -- very outgoing, very real," said Miss America 1983 Debra Maffett, one of the performers at the event that raised about $50,000. "I can tell she's very passionate about her cause. She really wants to be doing good in the world."
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