Friday, August 24, 2012

08/24 KEITH MORRISON, STEPHANIE OSWALD, JENNIFER GREY, STEVE EVANS

KEITH MORRISON - NBC "DATELINE"

TONIGHT AT 10 PM NBC - Keith Morrison is an award-winning correspondent for Dateline NBC. He joined the program in 1995 after a varied career at both NBC and in Canadian television. He has covered stories worldwide, interviewing everyone from presidents and prime ministers, student protesters under fire in Tiananmen Square, to criminals, teachers, artists, actors and authors. Morrison started in the 1960s as a junior reporter for a small Canadian newspaper. By the beginning of the ‘70s he had migrated through several radio stations and into television, where he was a reporter and anchor at local stations in Saskatchewan, Vancouver and Toronto. Morrison joined NBC in January 1986 as co-anchor of the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. news on KNBC-TV, Los Angeles. Two years later, he joined NBC News as a West Coast correspondent for NBC Nightly News and Today, among other NBC News programs. In 1989, Morrison was a key contributor to NBC’s coverage of the student rebellion in Beijing and the resulting massacre in Tiananmen Square. In the following years he contributed award-winning NBC News hour-long documentaries, shorter pieces for various magazine programs, and many stories on Nightly News and Today. Morrison also continued in his role as co-anchor of the KNBC news until the summer of 1992, when he left the station and the network to return to Canada to become host of CTV’s morning program, Canada-AM. In addition he was host of the syndicated program Down the Road Again with Keith Morrison, and moderated several panel discussion programs for selected stations of the PBS network. Morrison came home to NBC in 1995, where his work has garnered Emmy, Christopher, Sigma Delta Chi and Edward R. Murrow awards among others. He is married to Suzanne Perry Morrison, a writer and artist. They have six children.


STEPHANIE OSWALD - "TRAVELGIRL"

Correspondent for The Weather Channel, and seasoned travel correspondent for CNN, she has reported on everything from stress-relieving spa treatments and unique escapes around the world to the human side of a hurricane. She is the co-founder of travelgirl -- the first national travel magazine to launch after the events of 9/11. The travel and lifestyle publication was chosen by industry leader Mr. Magazine as one of the "most notable" launches of 2003. Oswald is a native New Yorker who spent 13 years globetrotting as CNN's travel correspondent and host of the weekend program, CNN Travel Now. In 2003, she also launched a groundbreaking series called The Weather Channel Road Crew that showcased the "fun" side of weather. In 2004, she filed written and audio reports during Hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne as the very first Web Correspondent for Weather.com. As anchor and correspondent for CNN Travel Now, a weekly program on worldwide destinations, travel trends and cuisine, Oswald specialized in adventure travel, filing reports from Europe, South America, Asia and the Caribbean. One series took her into the depths of Papua New Guinea for a rare and eye-opening look at the Huli Wigmen. Her reports also appeared on CNN Headline News, CNN in-flight programming for Delta Air Lines, CNN International and the CNN Airport Network. Immediately after 9/11, she filed human interest stories on the crisis for CNN, and covered the impact on the travel industry during live studio reports on CNN
Headline News.


JENNIFER GREY – ACTRESS

Dirty Dancing is about to turn 25 and to celebrate its anniversary, actress Jennifer Grey is opening up to fans to reveal everything they want to know about the classic film and working with Patrick Swayze. The film has recently been showing on the big screen during a special 8 city tour presented by Skinny Cow, makers of delicious ice cream and NEW! Candy, giving fans an opportunity to have the ultimate girl’s night out Dirty Dancing experience. Jennifer will be attending the final screening in Los Angeles on the day the film actually premiered 25 years ago. Jennifer Grey made her screen debut in the 10th-billed role of Cathy Bennario in the 1984 "brat pack" film Reckless. That year, she also played small roles in The Cotton Club and Red Dawn. Her first real break came when she played Matthew Broderick's sister in the hit teen comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Grey followed up that success with an even bigger one


STEVE EVANS - "THE MOVIE GUY"

GREAT MOVIES OPENING THIS WEEKEND AND BOX OFFICE PREDICTIONS AND HOPES. FIND OUT WHAT MOVIES ARE WORTH YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY. GET SET FOR THE WEKEND.