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Wendy Walker: “come home from work . . . lying on the floor”: Ibid.
CHAPTER FOUR: Brainy, Blond, Glamorous
Among the People the Author Interviewed Are:
Connie Chung, Bill Small, Bob Taylor, Jennifer Siebens, Sandy Socolow, Roger Mudd, Av Westin, Ginny Vicario, Joe Peyronnin, Patricia O’Gorman, Ellen Rossen, Ira Rosen, Anna Robertson, Jeff Fager, Susan Zirinsky, Mark Robertson, Marlene Sanders, Richard Wald, Phyllis McGrady, Betsy West, Roger Goodman, and various anonymous sources.
Quotes from the Principal Subject Obtained from Media Sources:
“I would sleep . . . what I could get”: Margo Howard, “60 Minutes’ Newest Correspondent,” People.
“My sister is elegant . . . to fall down the stairs”: Ibid.
“mother’s door . . . a blind panic” and “wearing a juice-stained . . . dazzling riposte”: Joan Juliet Buck, “Live Mike,” Vanity Fair.
“In the first ninety seconds . . . center of the dance”: Ibid.
“I thought he was . . . not judgmental about anybody”: Judith Newman, “Diane Sawyer,” Ladies’ Home Journal.
“we had lunch . . . sort of trailed off”: Ibid.
“I have no taste . . . floor pillows”: Ibid.
“with knocking knees. . . . far worse than me”: Rita Wilson, “Diane Sawyer: Truth & Beauty.” Harper’s Bazaar
“I’m so undomestic. . . . about the things she knows about”: Newman, Ladies’ Home Journal.
‘Well, this is sort of fun, too’: Lee Woodruff, “The Latest News on Diane Sawyer,” Ladies’ Home Journal.
‘I’ve got a great ass’: Frederick Exley, “If Nixon Could Possess,” Esquire.
“A sonata for harp and jackhammer”: Richard Zoglin, “Star Power,” Time.
Quotes from Other Speakers Obtained from Media Sources:
Richard Zoglin: “rich, honeyed voice. . . . affected by” [Pauley]: Richard Zoglin, “Star Power,” Time.
Margo Howard: “a thinking man’s Angie Dickinson . . . connection to a gentler time”: “60 Minutes’ Newest Correspondent.”
Mike Nichols: “I thought . . . I was real, too”: Joan Juliet Buck, “Live Mike,” Vanity Fair.
Mike Nichols: “I went totally crazy”: Joan Juliet Buck, “Live Mike,” Vanity Fair.
Mike Nichols: “I didn’t want her . . . went very, very fast”: Ibid.
Joan Ganz Cooney: “He . . . is the decorator. . . . the furniture”: Joan Juliet Buck, “Live Mike,” Vanity Fair.
Mike Nichols: “She cuts out thirty-five . . . sometimes complex”: Jesse Green, “When in Doubt, Seduce,” New York.
Mike Nichols: “My happiness . . . married Diane”: Jesse Green, “When in Doubt, Seduce,” New York.
Mike Nichols: “Falling in love . . . the end of all games”: Joan Juliet Buck, “Live Mike,” Vanity Fair.
Carole Simpson: “We think we have a problem. . . . hasn’t crossed your mind.” Judith Marlane, Women in Television News.
Carole Simpson: “mouths fell open. . . . ‘You’re absolutely right’”: Ibid.
Richard Zoglin: “The prospect of losing Sawyer . . . an effort to keep her”: Zoglin, “Star Power.”
Don Hewitt: “a monumental talent . . . remotely crippled 60 Minutes”: Ibid.
Sam Donaldson: “When I got into the business . . . accept that”: Judith Marlane, Women in Television News.
Barbara Walters: Diane and I struggled . . . Diane and I were more polite: Barbara Walters, Audition.
Sources Particularly Helpful to the Author on Specific or Provocative Details:
On Diane and Nixon after she went to CBS:
Robert Sam Anson, Exile.
On Barbara Walters’s ex-husband Adelson’s Mafia ties:
Bryan Burrough, “Remembrance of Wings Past,” Vanity Fair.
On Carole Simpson and the ABC women’s confrontation with Roone Arledge:
Judith Marlane, Women in Television News Revisited.
On Diane’s romance with Mike Nichols:
Joan Juliet Buck, “Live Mike,” Vanity Fair.
On the subject of Mike Nichols’s and others’ problems with the drug Halcion:
Gina Kolata, “Finding a Bad Night’s Sleep with Halcion,” New York Times. Joseph O’Neill, “Roth v. Roth v. Roth,” Atlantic.
On criticism arising from Diane’s interview with Michael Jackson:
Maureen Orth, “The Jackson Jive,” Vanity Fair.
On the subject of Diane’s career trajectory over these years:
Ken Auletta, “Promise Her the Moon,” New Yorker.
CHAPTER FIVE: America’s Sweetheart to Premature Widow
Among the People the Author Interviewed Are:
Maria Fleet, Don Browne, Jane Pauley, Kathleen Lobb, Jeff Zucker, Andrew Tyndall, Mandy Locke, Betsy Yowell Howell, Lori Beecher, author’s off-the-record conversation with a Jane Pauley maternity-leave substitute during an interview with her for McCall’s magazine, Allison Gollust, Yael Federbush, Janie McMullen Florea, and various anonymous sources.
Quotes from the Principal Subject Obtained from Media Sources:
“used to tease him . . . make them look old”: Lisa DePaulo, “Killer Katie,” George.
“My husband is traditional . . . amused by that”: Katie Couric, The Best Advice.
“This is Today . . . stuck with you”: Today, April 5, 1991, YouTube. “Katie Couric Talks,” Larry King Live.
“Not to sound too . . . role on the show”: Nichola D. Gutgold, Seen and Heard.
“It was very contentious . . . six years ago”: Peter Johnson, “Couric’s Good Mornings,” USA Today.
“It was slightly bizarre . . . Vanity Fair”: Jennet Conant, “Don’t Call Me Perky,” Redbook.
“I’m one of these less contentious . . . easy”: Lisa DePaulo, “Killer Katie,” George. For the Katie-Bush interview: Bill Carter, “The 1992 Campaign,” New York Times.
“I was trying to prove my manhood”: Ibid.
“From Branford . . . that’s chosen me” and “I think I’m . . . but not too attractive”: Elisabeth Bumiller, “What You Don’t Know About Katie Couric,” Good Housekeeping.
“My friends call me . . . going and going”: Judy Flander, “The Two Faces of Katie Couric”: American Journalism Review.
“It’s really hard . . . really misses her” and “It was hard . . . really hard” and “Sometimes Jay and I will . . . attention to it” and “My husband . . . dealing with a lot” and “It’s a constant . . . my family”: Jennet Conant, “Don’t Call Me Perky,” Redbook.
“Settling into our . . . soul-filling contentment”: Katie Couric, The Best Advice.
“I guess . . . tobacco industry”: Adam Nagourney, “Dole Criticizes Role of Press,” New York Times.
“There was a lot . . . creative it was”: “Katie Couric Talks,” Larry King Live.
“Then tell us what the truth . . . I can take it”: Lisa DePaulo, “Killer Katie,” George.
“Jay had lost a lot of weight . . . Don’t worry. It’s not cancer”: “Couric Talks,” Larry King Live.
“It’s a blur . . . hope and the positivity”: Ibid.
“It’s these parallel universes . . . buying sweaters.”: Ibid.
“people walking down the . . . you’re going through”: Katie Couric, The Best Advice.
“cheerleader . . . ‘We can beat this thing’”: Couric Talks,” Larry King Live.
“semblance of the normality . . . a question and [I would] think about Jay”: Ibid.
“He did not . . . until the bitter end”: “Colleagues Turn Out to Mourn with Couric,” Associated Press.
Quotes from Other Speakers Obtained from Media Sources:
Tim Russert: “She was articulate . . . wholesome appeal”: Roxanne Roberts, “Yipes! It’s Katie Couric!,�
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Dick Ebersol: “appeal to women” and “unique talents . . . cohesiveness”: Edward Klein, “NBC’s Great Blond Hope,” Vanity Fair.
Tom Brokaw: “fascinated” and “This isn’t the case with Katie”: Judy Flander, “The Two Faces of Katie Couric,” American Journalism Review.
Letter from a fan to Katie: “You have it puffed up . . . it was gawd-awful”: Roxanne Roberts, “Yipes! It’s Katie Couric!,” Washington Post.
Tom Shales: “She hit Today . . . Bryant Gumbel’s arm”: Tom Shales, “Top of the Morning, Katie!,” Washington Post.
Judy Flander: “a Cinderella . . .”: Judy Flander, “The Two Faces of Katie Couric,” American Journalism Review.
Jennet Conant: “She skyrocketed . . .”: Jennet Conant, “Don’t Call Me Perky,” Redbook.
Tom Shales: “The hard part is finding a flaw . . . Thank you, God”: Tom Shales, “Top of the Morning, Katie!,” Washington Post.
Bruce Weber: petite and tomboyish . . . for that matter, adult: Bruce Weber, “Home with Katie,” New York Times.
Tom Shales: “brighten[ing] the program . . . place among morning programs”: Tom Shales, “Top of the Morning, Katie!,” Washington Post.
Poznek letter and lawsuit: “Feinberg v. Poznek,” Justia U.S. Supreme Court Center. Dan Mangan and Dareh Gregorian, “Hasty Nanny’s Mud Blitz,” New York Post. “Letters,” People, October 4, 1993.
CHAPTER SIX : From Atlanta to Bosnia: A Crusader Is Born
Among the People the Author Interviewed Are:
Nancy Diamond, David Bernknopf, Maria Fleet, Sparkle Hayter, Amy Walter, Liza McGuirk, Flip Spiceland, Gail Evans, Marcia Ladendorff, Bob Cain, Diana Greene, Diana Bellew, Parisa Khosravi, Leila Amanpour, Lizzy Amanpour, David Rust (including—received with appreciation—passages from Rust’s Bosnia diaries), Ron Haviv, Pierre Bairin, Mark Phillips, Emma Daly, Judy Milestone, Bella Pollen, Andrew Tkach, and various anonymous sources.
Quotes from the Principal Subject Obtained from Media Sources:
“on the foreign desk . . . a foreign accent”: Christiane Amanpour, “2000 Murrow Awards Ceremony Acceptance Speech.”
“barely meeting payroll”: Christiane Amanpour, “To My Family at CNN,” private e-mail.
“I am sorry . . . ‘somewhere else and start’”: Christiane Amanpour, “2000 Murrow Awards Ceremony Acceptance Speech.”
“was character-building stuff”: Ibid.
“I had to lose . . . ‘to be on television here’”: “Christiane Amanpour’s Address to University of Michigan Commencent,” University of Michigan News Service.
“I consider Bosnia . . . ever done”: Ibid.
“I have found . . . an amazing door opener”: Piers Morgan Tonight: “Interview with Christiane Amanpour,” June 22, 2011, transcript.
“I said yes . . . done this career”: Jessica Ravitz, “Fearless to the End,” CNN.com.
“where I became . . . closest of bonds”: Christiane Amanpour, “To My Family at CNN,” private e-mail.
“Bosnia . . . and churches dynamited”: Jane Hall, “Q&A with Christiane Amanpour: On Life Near Death: In Bosnia for CNN,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, 1993.
“all I could keep saying . . . ran out of there”: Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Christiane Amanpour,” O, The Oprah Magazine.
“Seeing children . . . don’t believe is possible”: Jane Hall, “Q&A with Christiane Amanpour,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, 1993.
“I cannot believe this . . . horrifying, and savage”: Ibid.
“Mr. President . . . like to be taken” and “No, but speeches . . . madam” and “That poor woman . . . do not blame her” and “great service to the whole world”: “Christiane Amanpour Questions Bill Clinton,” YouTube.
“Once Srebrenica . . . not reporting it”: Suzanne Goldenberg, “Somehow I Don’t Feel It in My Gut,” Guardian.
“Objectivity means . . . war crime?”: Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Christiane Amanpour,” O, The Oprah Magazine. Christiane Amanpour, “2000 Murrow Awards Ceremony Acceptance Speech.”
Quotes from Other Speakers Obtained from Media Sources:
Eason Jordan: “She knew exactly . . . nuisance of herself”: Leslie Bennetts, “Woman o’ War,” Vanity Fair.
Fictional male character through narrator’s voice: “At first glance . . . at the neck”: Neil MacFarquhar, The Sand Café.
Fictional male character through narrator’s voice: “arouses attention wherever she goes”: Ibid. (Also, on the subject of this roman à clef: Christopher Dickey, “Love and Rockets,” New York Times Book Review.)
Don Hewitt: “I don’t give a fuck . . . reporter game”: Leslie Bennetts, “Woman o’ War,” Vanity Fair.
Additional Sources Helpful to the Author:
Marie Brenner, “Marie Colvin’s Private War,” Vanity Fair.
“Margaret Moth: Obituary,” Wichita Eagle.
Jessica Ravitz, “Fearless to the End,” CNN.com.
CHAPTER SEVEN : The Cool Drink of Water Versus the Girl Next Door
Among the People the Author Interviewed Are:
Phyllis McGrady, Shelley Ross, Yael Federbush, Anna Robertson, Lori Beecher, Betsy Yowell Howell, Lisa Paulsen, Kathleen Lobb, Pat Shifke, Allison Gollust, Jonathan Wald, Janie McMullen Florea, Andrew Heyward, and various anonymous sources.
Quotes from the Principal Subjects Obtained from Media Sources:
“I said to Charlie” and “‘I’ll do it if you do it’”: Ken Auletta, “The Dawn Patrol,” New Yorker.
“I just didn’t feel . . . and comforting one another”: “Katie Couric Talks,” Larry King Live.
“It was time . . . without Jay”: Joanna Powell, “Katie’s Haven,” Good Housekeeping.
“came into the kitchen and she had been crying” and “just crops up . . . missing him so much”: Ibid.
“watching over us and protecting us”: Ibid.
“like Florence Henderson on The Brady Bunch”: Ibid.
“She taught me . . . living” and “Emily found it . . . sister” and “The truth is . . . Emily Couric’s sister”: “Katie Couric Talks,” Larry King Live.
Quotes from Other Speakers Obtained from Media Sources:
Charlie Gibson: “my sell-by date had arrived”: Meryl Gordon, “Duel at Sunrise,” New York.
Bill Carter: “Reaching beyond $60 million . . . and a half years”: Bill Carter, “Katie Couric Signs NBC Contract Said to Be Largest in TV News,” New York Times.
Alessandra Stanley: “Something has to be . . . douse the lights”: Alessandra Stanley, “Today Seeks Yesterday’s Glory,” New York Times.
Among the YouTubes and Transcripts of Interviews Conducted by Diane and Katie:
Katie Couric Columbine Interview: “Columbine Interview: NBC_630,” KatieCouric.com. “Katie Couric Talks,” Larry King Live.
“Whitney Houston and Diane Sawyer,” Primetime, YouTube.
Sources Particularly Helpful to the Author on Specific Subjects:
On Katie Couric’s colonoscopy:
“The Katie Couric Effect”: “UM Study: Katie Couric’s Colonoscopy Caused Cross-country Climb in Colon Cancer Checks,” University of Michigan. Amber J. Tresca, “Colorectal Screening Gets ‘The Katie Couric Effect,’” About.com.
Katie’s cancer charity work: Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health, MonahanCenter.org. EIF: National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, EIFoundation.org.
On the competition between the two shows and anchors:
Ken Auletta, “The Dawn Patrol,” New Yorker. Bill Carter, “Katie Couric Signs NBC Contract,” New York Times.
Meryl Gordon, “Duel at Sunrise,” New York. Alessandra Stanley, “Today Seeks Yesterday’s Glory,” New York Times.
On September 11, 2001, and aftermath:
YouTube clips of Good
Morning America and Today openings plus first twenty minutes of coverage on September 11, 2001. Michael D. Lemonick, “Bioterrorism: The Next Threat?,” Time.
CHAPTER EIGHT: Home from War, Still in Battle
Among the People the Author Interviewed Are:
Diana Bellew, Lizzy Amanpour, Emma Daly, Liza McGuirk, Bella Pollen, Parisa Khosravi, Mark Phillips, Andrew Tkach, Kathy O’Hearn, David Bernknopf, Pierre Bairin, Ron Haviv, Tony Maddox, and various anonymous sources.
Quotes from the Principal Subject Obtained from Media Sources:
“I couldn’t have . . . had a kid” and “All my energy . . . ‘ever have a child’”: Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Christiane Amanpour,” O, The Oprah Magazine.
“There came a moment . . . consciously changed myself”: Ibid.
“We were truly distraught” and “We thought . . . should happen”: Nicholas Kralev, “You Can’t Hurry Love,” Financial Times.
“I was their age when the Revolution began”: Christiane Amanpour, “Revolutionary Journey,” Amanpour.Blogs.CNN.com.
“the road to hell . . . arsenic” and “highest risk . . . die of cancer”: Christiane Amanpour and Ed Bradley, “The Best of Intentions: UNICEF,” 60 Minutes.
“a very happy . . . weekend”: “A Tribute to JFK Jr.,” Larry King Weekend, CNN.com (including transcript from July 15, 1999, interview with Christiane Amanpour).
“loyal and generous and faithful . . . forty years of his life” and “many people . . . John fail”: Ibid.
“I was very cavalier . . . ‘bulletproof diapers’”: Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Christiane Amanpour,” O, The Oprah Magazine.
“Motherhood is . . . wait and see”: Nicholas Kralev, “You Can’t Hurry Love,” Financial Times.
“I was conscious . . . ‘Let the guys do it’”: Christian Amanpour, “Find the Thing,” California Women’s Conference.
“The minute . . . everything changed” and “There’s a love inside . . . capable of” and “And there’s no way in hell . . . surviving”: Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Christiane Amanpour,” O, The Oprah Magazine.
“devastated . . . aired their footage”: Christiane Amanpour, “2000 Murrow Awards Ceremony Acceptance Speech.”
“He’s not a househusband . . . voice of Americans overseas”: Ibid.