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The Watergate Warbler has a different tune. John Dean has embarked on a new career as a syndicated radio commentator. The first of his tapes will go on the air Jan. 2—and Dean promises no gaps. "I view it as an opportunity and a responsibility," he says of the job. "I've had responsibility in the past, and I've blown it. I do not intend to blow it this time." Listeners will hear that familiar flat baritone sound off for three minutes, five days a week, on topics ranging from the safety of air travel to the fate of the $2 bill. Dean will also chat with Jerry Rubin on the techniques of terrorism and have another round with Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, this time on the future of the G.O.P. On Fridays Dean will answer mail from listeners, a feature he calls "The Right to Know."
When it comes to politics, Basketball Star Bill Bradley, 34, has never taken his eyes off the goal. As a senior at Princeton, he wrote a thesis on Harry Truman's 1940 senatorial campaign; in later years he campaigned for George McGovern and Mo Udall. Retired from the New York Knicks and fresh off the campaign trail for New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne, Bradley has decided that it's time for his own tip-off into politics. He opened a formal bid for the U.S. Senate in his home state of New Jersey, joining at least four other Democratic hopefuls in the race. Once that was done, Bradley declined to talk about it to the press. A case of cold sneakers?
That sweet-faced woman paying no mind to the camel is secretly coveting a dead woman's jewels. Even worse, Hercule Poirot, mankind's shrewdest sleuth, suspects it. As the plot twists in the movie version of Dame Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile, the dastardly character played by Bette Davis is finally trapped by Poirot (Peter Ustinov). All this intrigue delighted Davis, but she wondered if the trip to Egypt really was necessary. Years ago, Davis recalls, there would have been no need to leave the comforts of a Hollywood back lot. Says she: "They'd have built the Nile for you, and you would never have known the difference. Nowadays, films have become travelogues and actors stunt men."