Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, November 9, 1995 TAG: 9511090030
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: FROM WIRE REPORTS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Former White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater fled a taping of a Comedy Central talk show after ``60 Minutes'' correspondent Mike Wallace confronted him with a string of obscenities.
Wallace apparently was angry that Fitzwater's new book, ``Call The Briefing!'' labels ``60 Minutes'' as ``liberal.''
And of Wallace, Fitzwater writes: ``I would watch Mike Wallace late at night [on TV] as he insulted his talk show guests, drove women to cry and performed his pioneering version of talk show extremism.
``It amazed me, years later, to find that he was actually respected by his colleagues.''
Fitzwater says Wallace and ``60 Minutes'' producer Don Hewitt laced into him on the phone, then Wallace showed up in the studio where Comedy Central tapes its show ``Politically Incorrect.''
``Wallace started shouting at me again: `This is an outrage. You owe me an apology,''' Fitzwater said. ``I was so upset, I asked the producer if I could skip the production.''
\ Say, say, say what you want about Michael Jackson, but he sure knows how to cut a deal.
The king of pop sold the music publishing rights to some 250 Beatles songs to Sony Corp. for about $95 million. The new publishing enterprise created through the deal will combine Sony's music publishing division with Jackson's ATV Music catalog.
In addition to the Beatles songs, Jackson's catalog includes songs performed by Elvis Presley and Little Richard. Publishing rights to Jackson's own songs were not included in the deal, Sony said.
Jackson bought ATV in 1985 for about $47.5 million. Other bidders included Paul McCartney.
by CNB