• ; T H E CAPITAL® G•R•I•L•L•E t4t new movie, particularly a big movie, they will invite 50 to 100 reporters from TV, newspapers and magazines across the country to preview it, pay- ing their way to New York or Los Angeles. Reporters watch the movie and then get five minutes with the star or director under very controlled cir- cumstances. "The studio controls the cameras and the tapes so what you get is studio manipulation of the coverage of its movies," Rose said. "It's a big ethical question as to whether any reporter should be accepting free trips and all the rest when they're covering some- thing that the studio is paying for. "We will not go on the junkets, but we will do a story about the junkets to show how the studios manipulate the press." Willow Bay, formerly co-anchor of "Good Morning America/Sunday," is doing a piece on focus groups, panels established to evaluate shows, and the effects of their opinions. In one case, Robert Altman's most recent film, The Gingerbread Man, met with criticism from a focus group, and the ending was changed. Bay talks to Altman about his furious reaction to this trend. There will be fun segments, too — an interview with composer- enter- tainer Burt Bacharach, who is becom- ing popular with the young crowd, and a segment on a small film compa- ny that's developing a cult following. "I'd like to think that every piece we do, even the fun pieces, will have people walking away and saying, 'I didn't know that,"' Rose said. "I'm not saying that our main mission is to teach, but I think journalism, at its best, illuminates and informs." Rose was informed about broad- casting by both his parents. His moth- er, Sondra Gair, was a radio soap opera actress in the '30s, '40s and '50s and went on to do various types of radio shows in the '60s and '70s. His father, Hildy Rose, was a radio talk- show host. "I used to stand in front of the mirror when I was 10 and pretend that a big pen was a microphone," Rose recalled. "I'd practice my signoffs." In 1993, Rose did a "Prime Time Live" segment about his mother. "We didn't know when we did that story that she was developing breast cancer, and she died a year later," Rose revealed. "Of all the stories I've done over the years, that's the story that people keep coming back to and telling me they loved. "It was really gratifying because my mother was a big radio celebrity in Chicago, which meant that her voice was well recognized but nobody recog- nized her. "Once my story appeared on televi- sion, she was being recognized in the supermarket and when she went out to dinner, and it was a whole new thing for her. "She was such a modest person, and she never expected it. It really was very exciting, and it was kind of like a mitzvah that I was able to do for her without even realizing it." Rose believes he learns a lot each time he is assigned a new story. "I really got an education on urban prob- lems when I was in Detroit," said Rose, who was quite distressed when he was accused of distorting the facts about the city. "I liked Detroit and was fascinated by the whole place. [Our report] was honest. We turned our camera on, and it was all there for us. "Subsequent to that, a very close friend of mine came back to Detroit to get married, and they had a beauti- ful wedding on Belle Isle. It was spec- tacular." Rose's first trip to Israel was as a correspondent. His coverage brought a duPont-Columbia University Award. "I did half of one show looking at the [Mideast] situation through the eyes of an Israeli [looking at] the birth and growth of Israel," he recalled. "The other half of the show was done by another correspondent looking at it from the eyes of a Pales- tinian. "That was one of many [experiences] that taught me how deeply imbedded the anger and the hatred are on both sides, and that was something that struck me as a Jew and as a reporter." Since reporting about his highly personal experiences when undergoing treatment for cancer, in his case radia- tion therapy for a brain tumor, Rose is grateful for his recovery. "I was unlucky to get sick, but I was extremely lucky to get better," the three-time Emmy winner said. "I'm feeling great today. My wife is preg- nant with our first babies, twins. "A few years ago, I wasn't sure I was going to be surviving too long, and here I am healthy and about to become a father." Dry-aged Steaks, Chops, Large Lobsters "A classic upscale steak house... The Capital Grille is an oasis of elegant genteel calm... 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