Interview

The Orioles' parade of general manager candidates started again Thursday with former club executive Scott Proefrock and will continue Friday with former Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos general manager Dan Duquette. It also is expected to include New York Yankees scouting director Damon Oppenheimer — perhaps as early as Saturday — Minnesota Twins vice president Mike Radcliff and Boston Red Sox vice president and former Kansas City Royals GM Allard Baird, according to an industry source.

Thursday morning, ABC senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper posted a TwitPic of "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts with the cutline "woman of the hour. " I can appreciate a newsperson congratulating a colleague, and I have to admit I was glad ABC News and not NBC News got the exclusive interview with Barack Obama to which the cutline referred. Headlines and history were made in the interview with Obama saying he was in favor of same-sex marriage. But the image struck me as part of a wrongheaded discourse generated by ABC and propagated by many of my critic colleagues celebrating Roberts and the network for getting this "scoop.

NBC and its affiliates received thousands of complaints from viewers, the National Organization of Women blasted the network, and a "pained" Bryant Gumbel called in sick.That was just some of the reaction to news yesterday that NBC would air a live, commercial-free interview with O. J. Simpson during a three-hour edition of "Dateline NBC" starting at 8 tonight, according to Andrew Lack, president of NBC News.Lack defended tonight's prime-time Simpson package during a conference call, saying NBC News is not paying Simpson, has not agreed to any ground rules and has an obligation as a journalistic enterprise to do the interview.

MORE THAN 180 Northwest Middle School pupils recently got a taste of the real world when they participated in mock job interviews courtesy of some real employers in Taneytown. The program was part of a language arts careers unit developed by eighth-grade language arts teachers Holly Fuhrman and Gayle Sands. As part of the unit, pupils research and write about a career they may be interested in, Sands said. In the past, the teachers would interview the pupils. "We talked this year and had the idea of asking community members to help us out, to make it more realistic and to introduce potential employees to potential employers in the community," Sands said.

NEW YORK -- The woman who accused William Kennedy Smith of rape in the case that ended with Mr. Smith's acquittal last week is to be interviewed for the 10 p.m. Thursday broadcast of the ABC News program "PrimeTime Live."Diane Sawyer, a co-anchor of the program, is to tape the interview in the next two days.An ABC News executive, speaking on condition of anonymity, said yesterday that the network is "proceeding with the understanding that this young woman is coming forward and will identify herself."

NEW YORK -- Larry King sits on a flowered sofa in a swell hotel suite, overlooking Central Park, doing something out of character. He's answering questions.Here's one: Which 10 historical figures does he wish he could book right now -- tonight -- for his coast-to-coast weeknight radio or TV talk shows?"Christ," he says."Lincoln. Hitler. Washington. Dickens. Garbo." Pause. "I would ask her only one question: 'Why?'" ''Sir Laurence Olivier." Pause. "The only one I missed when I had a chance: Gorbachev.

THERE IS A SLIGHT paunch around the belt now, but the jacket that covers it is still a flashy double-breasted model, its shade of dark blue contrasting smartly with the bright red of the striped shirt, dotted tie and patterned socks.There are some sags and wrinkles in the face, yet it retains an elemental boyishness. And though thick glasses often block the view of the always-hooded eyes, somewhere back there you can still catch a glint of merriment.It's been a quarter century since David Frost first sprang upon the consciousness of the American public, seemingly the model of modern English wit as he hosted the satirical, acerbic "That Was the Week That Was," a brilliant bit of political parody that blazed across prime time like a shooting star in 1964 and 1965.

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- I'm zippin' across the state, one hand on my Big Gulp, the other on the wheel. I've got the music cranked. I've got the pedal to the metal. I've got visions of the Frown Prince, dancing through my head."Ed-die. Ed-die."Every year I beg for this assignment: The spring-training "interview" with Eddie Murray. It is the easiest workday in American journalism. Get the big "No!" from Eddie, pound the laptop for an hour, then hit the beach."Ed-die. Ed-die."I'm chanting his name now. I've got my entire day planned.

One high-profile Orioles managerial candidate is out, another interviewed Wednesday and two more, including fan favorite Rick Dempsey, will talk formally with Andy MacPhail about the position in the near future. Buck Showalter, the ESPN baseball analyst who has managed three major league teams, met with MacPhail, the Orioles' president of baseball operations, and principal owner Peter Angelos for about three hours at Angelos' law offices Wednesday. Hours earlier, the Orioles learned that Bobby Valentine, the former New York Mets and Texas Rangers manager who interviewed with MacPhail and Angelos on June 11, had decided to pull his name from consideration to "direct my energies in another direction," according to an ESPN The Magazine report.