Or did they just make up the facts as they go along. Ladies and gentlemen, I am about to do something that I am loathe to do. Because, for as much as I dislike Franken, his recent TV effort, Lateline had its moments. Hackett starts to dance across the screen in clips from The Music Man . On the following evenings broadcast, the anchor apologizes, and then interviews a living Hackett from his hospital bed.
Life imitates art.
I'm told that during the initial ABC report, they received word that Hope was, in fact, alive. Score one for Drudge. This page is Copyright 1998, Christopher J. Burke. All rights reserved.