Funny box copy for the Swedish Chef’s cereal? That was me. “Dial-a-Muppet” sketches? Me. A statement to the press from Miss Piggy? Me. One of the things I certainly wasn’t focused on as a 27-year-old ...

”Nightline” Tuesday kept Chicago viewers up late. The hourlong session averaged a 14.5 rating, falling off in the last quarter-hour. (In Chicago, a rating point represents 30,000 TV households).

Ted Koppel sat in Bud Hedinger’s anchor chair on the WFTV-Channel 9 news set. “You look good up there, Ted!” co-anchor Marti Salt shouted from the wings. “I’ll be back Dec. 4th,” Koppel said. “My ...

On November 6, 1987, after a devastating stock market crash, the Muppets appeared on a special “Town Hall” edition of ABC’s “Nightline” in segments designed to explain the financial system. I wrote ...

In 1987 I had my first professional job as a writer. I was a computer programmer when I dropped out of college and moved to New York, but a series of the kind of decisions you make in your twenties ...