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Cronkite, Bernstein Create Millennium Show

NPR Radio show will air New Year's Eve

If Times Square of the Millennium Dome bore you and you need an unusual source of New Year's Eve entertainment, try NPR. Legendary newsman Walter Cronkite is teaming up with another legendary figure from the music industry Elmer Bernstein to create special New Year's Eve program for National Public Radio. According to Army Archerd's column in Variety, the program, "Memos to a New Millennium" will be written and directed by 89-year old Norman Corwin and air at 11:30pm December 31.

The show will look back at people who modeled our past and their predictions at the time of the future. The show will feature; Thomas Edison who believed "the radio craze would die out in time", Henry Ford who in 1928 said, "People are becoming too intelligent ever to have another big war". The show will also include Daryl Zanuck who in 1946 said "Video won't be able to hold on to any market after six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

The show reunites Cronkite and Corwin for the first time since Cronkite presented Corwin's special 50th anniversary show, "Network at Fifty" for CBS back in the '70s. It also a reunion for Corwin and Bernstein. The conductor composed a score for a program Corwin made for Columbia Pictures 50 years ago.

Source: Daily Variety

DATE: 8/20/99

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