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- NATION, Page 37American NotesENTERTAINMENTH-e-e-r-e's -- Jesse?
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- Oprah and Geraldo should brace themselves. The Rev. Jesse
- Jackson is starting his own TV talk show. The two-time Democratic
- presidential candidate announced last week that he has signed on
- with a subsidiary of Warner Communications to produce Voices of
- America with Jesse Jackson, a weekly one-hour program that will
- debut in the fall of next year, if stations decide to buy it. The
- surprisingly early announcement may have been meant to kill rumors
- that Jackson may try to become mayor of Washington in the November
- 1990 elections. If so, it failed. While declaring once again that
- he had "no plans" to run in that election, he noted that "my real
- interest is serving and building a coalition as a communicator."
- One adviser notes that since the last presidential campaign,
- Jackson has been looking for a "steady platform" that would keep
- him in the public eye. There has never been a conflict in Jackson's
- ability to talk, talk, talk while he runs, runs, runs.