16 Quotes by Matthew Felling

She will either wreck the evening news or rescue it.

Celebrity gossip has become like the blob in that (1958) Steve McQueen movie: It spreads everywhere it can. 'Entertainment Tonight' begat 'Access Hollywood.' TV people saw these two shows could succeed and created an entire channel for it.

I can't see a demand for a cable tier with no sports programming nor any of the big three cable news networks.

He leaves a lot to the imagination. That's manna from heaven for these comics.

I think 'Friends' ' success lies partly in the diversity of its characters but mostly 'Friends' enjoyed the benefits of a very weak decade in television entertainment. Were they on top? Were they champions? Sure, but the competition wasn't all that good to begin with,

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

The Oscar gap that exists between the academy and its audience isn't snobbery or liberal elitism as much as it reflects a different grading scale. Most moviegoers look for entertainment, while the academy looks for art.

(Broussard's comments) deserved an on-air correction, they did not deserve an on-air interrogation.

Are you getting more political information from Koppel or from Letterman? That's an interesting question,