Yep, it's true....the Overstock.com girl and the Easter Island statue got hitched.
Posted on 04/24/2006 6:31:55 PM PDT by wjersey
NBC wants Mike Wallace, but does Mike Wallace want NBC?
NBC News chief Steve Capus says the legendary CBS newsman can write his own ticket at 30 Rock. Wallace, in his 38th season at 60 Minutes, confirms that he and the network are talking.
"I haven't made up my mind," says Wallace, who turns 88 on May 9. "I do feel a great loyalty to CBS. I've been there for 40 years. I'm there. I've been there. I want to continue to be there.
"I've got to figure out my life."
Wallace said in March that he would step down as a regular 60 Minutes correspondent at the end of May. He joined the groundbreaking newsmagazine at its September 1968 premiere.
As correspondent emeritus, he said he'd be available "for whatever chores CBS News has in mind for me."
NBC's Capus labels Wallace "a rock star" in the industry and an invaluable resource for young journalists.
"Mike could teach the 20-somethings in this building a thing or two about hard work, effective reporting, and how to carry themselves. I don't think he's done. We can all learn from Mike."
Capus, a Warminster lad and Temple alum, would not say if he had spoken with Wallace, or if he had made him an official offer.
No comment from CBS. Wallace is under contract there, but if he decided to jump ship, "I imagine it could be arranged," he says.
A former game-show host, Wallace joined CBS in 1951. Four years later, he left to do his own interview show, and returned in '63 as a correspondent.
"If Mike Wallace decides that he still wants to be in the game, we have a home for him," Capus says. "There are very few times when you get to welcome someone of his caliber into your organization."
Wallace's age is not a factor, Capus insists.
"He's not going to report from Baghdad, and we don't need him to. He brings other things to the table.... Mike is ageless. We should all be so lucky, at that age, to be such a force in our industry."
If Wallace changes his address, he would probably do a few investigative reports a year for Brian Williams' NBC Nightly News or Dateline NBC.
Don Hewitt, 83, creator of 60 Minutes and former executive producer, says he supports Wallace either way.
"However he decides to do it, he's my pal, and I wouldn't take issue with anything he wanted to do."
Crossing over. Front-runner Tony Snow of Fox News is "an inspired choice" to be press secretary, says George Stephanopoulos, anchor of ABC's This Week and press secretary under Bill Clinton.
"He's well known and well liked," he says. "He seems to be able to carry a partisan agenda with some charm."
Stephanopoulos is far more effusive about Dan Senor, former Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman in Iraq and new husband of NBC's Campbell Brown.
"No one is more steeped in the No. 1 issue the President faces, Iraq, because of his service there. He's whip smart. He's a great debater. He'll be able to go back and forth with the press corps in a spirited way. And he has a great sense of humor, which is essential for a press secretary."
Making the transition from political spinner to network journalist "was more of a psychological adjustment than anything else," says Stephanopoulos, This Week's anchor since '02.
As press secretary, "you're an advocate and you're supposed to toe the line." As an anchor, "you're supposed to hold your foot up to the line and speak for yourself."
NBC sources say Senor is out of the running because of potential conflict-of-interest issues with Brown, coanchor of Today's weekend edition.
NBC's Andrea Mitchell and her hub, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, had no such issues "because he never told me anything," Mitchell says.
"Getting Alan Greenspan to talk about secret stuff would probably require some of the techniques used at Abu Ghraib."
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It's a shame that Senor married Brown - he'd make a good press secretary.
Dan Senor married Campbell Brown ? lucky guy !
I saw an interview with Wallace recently. He says he not formally retired because he doesn't know what else he would do. That is probably true and it's also a little sad.
Mikey needs to relax, visit some resort hotels and enjoy the life he has left.
Yep, it's true....the Overstock.com girl and the Easter Island statue got hitched.
I would marry the real overstock.com girl. she is hot. that would be very..doable.... lol
LOL.....
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