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Earnest, inspirational and saucy were the varied tones of each newscast's weekending Friday feature. Sauce was doled out by Steve Hartman for CBS' Assignment America as he followed Ginger Arn, the 93-year-old Kansas City widow, whose husband of 53 years never liked to dance. Now single once more she found a twinkletoed widower who likes to trip the light fantastic too. They moved in together after their first night of dancing: "So now we live in sin."
Inspiration was delivered by DJ Gregory, ABC's Person of the Week. ESPN's Tom Rinaldi told us that Gregory, a golf fan, was born with cerebral palsy making his gait clumsy and falls inevitable. Nevertheless he committed himself to walking around every hole of every round of every tournament on the PGA circuit for an entire year. He has just completed his 44th course and 988 miles.
Earnest was Professor Sabrina Brinson of Missouri State University, who is Making a Difference as a child education activist by sponsoring a National Institute for Literacy program with the volunteer group Mocha Moms. NBC's Rehema Ellis told us that Brinson makes a distinction between "illiterate" children--those unable to read--and the "aliterate"--those unmotivated to read despite competency. To target the aliterate, Brinson has set up reading creches where children hang out waiting for their parents to get their weekly 'dos: Boys Booked on Barbershops and Girls Booked on Beautyshops.
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