Gumbel to join CBS with prime time magazine show
Bryant Gumbel leaves NBC after 15 years for CBS to host a prime time magazine show and run a CBS syndication venture producing three specials yearly. He could earn over five million annually, with more if projects succeed, as he marks his Today departure on January 3.
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Quote of the Day: Perry on fame and privacy
Matthew Perry discusses life after Friends with Salma Hayek in Pools Rush In. He notes paparazzi harassment, chooses home time over nightlife, and acknowledges career success opening doors while not enjoying tabloids.
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Soap Opera Mayhem Across Many Fronts Spoilers
A sprawling recap covers All My Children, Another World, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, Sunset Beach, and The Young and the Restless. Key plot threads include Erica wrongly claiming motherhood, baby revelations, marital schemes, jailbreaks, custody flashbacks, and dramatic confrontations among Pine Valley, Springfield, Salem, Port Charles, and Genoa City figures.
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Kindness ends couple's nightmare Dear Abby
A reader recalls a harrowing European trip with a hospitalized husband in Austria and Germany. After a series of cash shortages and dead ends with airlines, a stranger named Charan Kumar handed her 5000 dollars in cash, enabling essential upgrades and travel home, illustrating extraordinary kindness amid hardship.
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Dear Abby letters and TV trivia spark reader memories
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