There have been many cases in which stars have come to us first to break the news because they knew the pressure was on. They wanted to have it on the air so that they could give their honest evaluation of the situation.
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Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.
Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.
In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.
I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.
There are so many venues in which stars are exposed today, that we just know much more and the studios don't have the control over stars like they used to, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s.
Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'
I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.
Television doesn't make stars. It's the written media, the press, that makes stars.