television has grown faster than a teenager, and now it is time to grow up. the tv was the center of the house. i don t remember a time without tv. by 1960, essentially every household in america had a television. it was a new way of bringing the world to you. when something big happened on television, it really did happen to the entire country and impacted the entire country at the same time. keep an awakened eye on the world. suddenly television was the main event. everything else changed, even the way in which you went about the business of getting someone elected president. david, will you hit the one-minute button, please. 30 seconds and the cut, please. in 1960, the nixon/kennedy debate was a first in television. a lot of people were watching that night, and it introduced a lot of people to kennedy. would you let me see the tight shot on camera one, please? can you hear me now speaking? is that about the right tone of voice? good evening. the
that black spirit, that darkness. he just points the gun at my forehead. the first thing i started thinking of was my children. at first i was saying what does kidnap mean? my dad was stolen by bad guys. i lost everything that i knew just like that, gone. it was such a mystery, who was behind this. it was just tearing me apart. i was suffering so much. we if it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. i saw things that no 12 -year-old should see. i mean just the cruelty of incredible fear and agony. when is this going to end? and all the hell that we went through on all the pain has made us unbreakable. the green and white taxi parallel down the highway, something was wrong. why had the man paid ten times the fair for a simple package delivery? we can didn t pry open the alarm full of. the cabbie pried open the package. their terrifying story, more than a decade in the making was about to come to an astonishing climax. i was 12 years ol
a detail that will matter later. my whole life i worked as an actress and did a lot of television, commercials. big roles in movies in soap operas. the 1992, it happened. pure chance. it was kind of like these fairytale stories. she was 25, she was at a payphone near washington d.c. when she just happened to block eyes within art dealer named eduardo. whom she would find out was a divorced dad of two and the offspring himself of a famous mexican newspaper baron. he founded over 40 newspapers in mexico. he was one of the biggest newspaper people, publishers in the country. would be an equivalent in the united states of who? probably that. that s when garcia ran his
no, no. i thought it was beautiful. there you go. [ applause ] i just thought anything that is interesting ought to have a place on a talk show rather than young pretty actresses who use the word excited in every sentence. you re not frequently seen on television. is that by choice? well, of course, it is the most impressive medium of all. it s the medium that s going to either save america or send it down into demise. there s no question about it. i m getting out of it myself. really? we ll be back after this. what you do is book the best possible guests from different kinds of businesses, maybe not everybody in show business. some politics, some newspaper people. get them all on the stage together and hope that something works. but it s a great show. it s a great platform for people who have something to say. the point is they take these
possible guests from different kinds of businesses, maybe not everybody in show business. some politics, some newspaper people. get them all on the stage together and hope that something works. but it s a great show. it s a great platform for people who have something to say. the point is they take these scripts out of the drawers. they change the things around. maybe it doesn t work on green acres, but with many of these shows, and that s why night after night, you turn on these serials, and they all seem as if they came out of the same bread box. [ applause ] back then you had lots and lots of copycats. you have the addams family and then the munsters, and you have bewitched. and then i dream of jeannie. if one person is doing this fantastical hit, we re going to do that. now, is that considered a crime? i m afraid not. there aren t any laws to protect us against bad tv shows yet. so you re safe. thank you. [ laughter ] what i m surprised by are some of the show