60 MINUTES {SADDAM'S BILLIONS, BRUCE CUTLER, REMEMBERING HARRY REASONER} (TV)

Summary

One in this series of news magazine programs. In the first segment, Steve Kroft reports on the network of wealth in the personal control of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Viewers learn that private investigator Jules Kroll has been hired by the Kuwaiti government to look into Hussein's assets, estimated at $11,000,000,000. Kroft interviews Kroll and goes to Geneva, Switzerland, to investigate business connections of Hussein and untangle the elaborate distribution of his money. In the second segment, Mike Wallace reports on Bruce Cutler, defense attorney for accused underworld leader John Gotti. Cutler's flamboyant courtroom tactics are known to his fellow lawyers as "Brucification" and have helped the attorney gain acquittals for his famous client on three separate occasions. Cutler talks to Wallace about his work, his belief in his clients, and what he terms giving "1000 percent" to his job. Wallace also speaks with Laura Brevetti, a former colleague of Cutler, and with Cutler's father Murray about the attorney's involvement with Gotti. Finally, Wallace reports that a federal trial judge recently disqualified Cutler as Gotti's attorney because the lawyer may be called to testify in future hearings. In the third segment, Morley Safer introduces Andy Rooney, who delivers a television memoir of his recently deceased "60 Minutes" colleague Harry Reasoner. Rooney shares his memories of Reasoner and shows clips of programs from the newsman's lengthy career in television. Includes commercials and promos.

Cataloging of this program has been made possible by the Bell Atlantic Foundation, 2000.

Details

• NETWORK: CBS
• DATE: August 11, 1991 7:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:59:57
• COLOR/B&W: Color
• CATALOG ID: T:63132
• GENRE: News magazine
• SUBJECT HEADING: Iraq - Officials; Lawyers; Television journalists
• SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1968-
• COMMERCIALS:
  • TV - Commercials - Amana laundry applicances
  • TV - Commercials - American Express Travelers Cheques
  • TV - Commercials - Chex Mix snack food
  • TV - Commercials - Citibank bank
  • TV - Commercials - Dodge and Plymouth automobiles
  • TV - Commercials - Glade air fresheners
  • TV - Commercials - Honda automobiles
  • TV - Commercials - Kellogg's Just Right cereal
  • TV - Commercials - Kellogg's Nutri-Grain cereal bars
  • TV - Commercials - MCI long-distance telephone service
  • TV - Commercials - McDonald's fast food
  • TV - Commercials - Mercedes automobiles
  • TV - Commercials - Post Wheaties cereal
  • TV - Commercials - Rolaids antacid
  • TV - Commercials - Shell gasoline
  • TV - Commercials - Texaco gasoline
  • TV - Commercials - United Parcel Service delivery service
  • TV - Promos - "48 Hours"
  • TV - Promos - "1991 Miss Teen USA Pageant"
  • TV - Promos - "Brooklyn Bridge"
  • TV - Promos - "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather"
  • TV - Promos - "CBS This Morning"
  • TV - Promos - "Designing Women"
  • TV - Promos - "Hard Copy"
  • TV - Promos - "Murder She Wrote"
  • TV - Promos - "Rescue 911"
  • TV - Promos - "Teech"
  • TV - Promos - "The Royal Family"
  • TV - Promos - "The Stranger Within"

CREDITS

• Don Hewitt … Executive Producer
• Philip Scheffler … Senior Producer
• Merri Lieberthal … Producer
• Lowell Bergman … Producer, Writer, News Writer
• David Rummel … Producer, Writer, News Writer
• Erica Stuart … Associate Producer
• L. Franklin Devine … Associate Producer
• Deborah DeLuca … Associate Producer
• Jane Bradford … Associate Producer
• Susan Bieber … Production (Misc.), Assistant Producer
• Arthur Bloom … Director
• Alicia Tanz Flaum … Direction (Misc.), Associate Director
• Terry Robinson … Direction (Misc.), Associate Director
• Mike Wallace … Reporter
• Morley Safer … Reporter
• Ed Bradley … Reporter
• Steve Kroft … Reporter
• Andy Rooney … Reporter
• Laura Brevetti
• Bruce Cutler
• Murray Cutler
• John Gotti
• Saddam Hussein
• Jules Kroll
• Harry Reasoner