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- VIEW POINTS, Page 73TELEVISIONReaching for the Rafters
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- By Richard Zoglin
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- Her return was ballyhooed more fervently than Gorbachev's
- comeback from the Crimea, but KATIE COURIC proved herself up to
- the hype. When the perky co-host of NBC'S Today show resumed her
- place on the couch Monday after a well-publicized two-month
- maternity leave, she did it all. Doubled forward with interest,
- like the most attentive date you've ever had, she quizzed
- Katharine Hepburn about her early days as an actress. Eyes
- narrowing ever so slightly in concern, she probed Secretary of
- Defense Dick Cheney about whether the U.S. still needs the B-2
- bomber. Zoning out helpfully, she lobbed puffballs ("Did you
- ever dream you'd be so successful?") at radio deejays Mark and
- Brian, stars of a new NBC series. And, of course, she brought
- baby pictures. After years of experimentation, network
- television may have finally developed the perfect morning-show
- host: smart but unassuming, cute but not plastic, the girl next
- door with a grin that reaches for the rafters. What's more, she
- gets along with both Bryant and Willard. Who was that Jane
- person anyway?
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